Giving Love Quilt or #7, is complete!

This is the 3rd Giving Love Quilt I've made, you can read about why I made another here.  It's for my cousins' daughter, Ellen.

I love the sunlight streaming through the quilt back.  Below is a close-up of the Dragonfly panto that is my current favorite.

May your bobbins always be full,

What time is it?

It's binding time!  These six quilts need binding!  Two are queen-size and the others are lap quilts.  I better get busy because my LAQ has six more; three will be ready at the end of June and three will be ready at the end of July.  

This pandemic has really kept me busy making quilts.  I'd rather be creating than binding, but, "Oh, Well"!

 

May your bobbins always be full,

Giving Love Quilt Top, or a #7 Please

Recently I did a quilt giveaway for 4 of my cousins.  I have many cousins, about 50, but these 4 are special.  I sent an email showing the 8 quilts I was willing to part with and asked them to choose 1 or two.  Ginny chose 1, Chris chose 2, Karen picked 3, and I didn't hear from Ellen.  The quilts were mailed off; then weeks later I got an email from Ellen, she'd picked a quilt and didn't hit send on her mail.  There was only one quilt left and I asked if she'd accept it instead of her 1st choice. 
She was happy to have it in her home.  But, I decided to make her another quilt, like the one she wanted.  

The quilt she wanted was one of the Giving Love Quilts I made as a sampler to show my guild.  This layout requires 13 12.5" blocks.  I already had 11 blocks on hand; so I made 2 more and assembled this quilt top for Ellen.

 

May your bobbins always be full,

Mystery Sampler Quiilt

I'm very happy with this quilt top. I took some orphan blocks that have been hanging around, added some Blocks of the Month from my quilt guild, and this is what I got. I'm calling it a Mystery Sampler Quilt because I really didn't know how it was going to turn out.   I love the star binding!

Started on May 30, 2020

Finished on August 21, 2020

It measures 60 x 72".

May your bobbins always be full,

Sampler Mystery Quilt

I'm very happy with this quilt top.  I took some orphan blocks that have been hanging around, added some Blocks of the Month from my quilt guild, and this is what I got.  I'm calling it a Mystery Quilt because I really didn't know how it was going to turn out.  It measures 60 x 72".

Now to figure out the quilt back, plus I've had a request for more masks!  My friend is in her nineties, 95, I think, and she was one of the first people I called to see if she wanted a face mask or two.  No, she really didn't. but now, months later as the pandemic has dragged on she's reconsidered.  I'm happy to help, but I really thought my mask-making days were behind me.

May your bobbins always be full,

Busy, busy, busy!

Well, I have been busy sewing blocks; just not busy posting them!  Most of these were made with leftover bits and pieces from other projects.  The trees and the barns are the exceptions.  I've been making these to add to the other blocks I've made in conjunction with the Charity Quilt Project my guild does.  Each month a member presents a block for the other members to make and donate to the project.  Every month I made 4 blocks, 2 to donate and two to keep.

This group is the exception.  I'm keeping 4 of these and donating 1.

The keepers, plus these extra blocks are going to be a large sample quilt.  I've spent the morning working on the layout.  Now, I'm going to let it sit for a while.  I'll come back to it tomorrow and stitch it together.  I have to say that it's been fun using the leftover blocks and HSTs to make something new!

May your bobbins always be full,

Breezy Quilt, #2

While making the Breezy #1 quilt top, I thought it'd be fun to have more colors in the background.  For Breezy #1, I used Kona Windsor and Coty.  For Breezy #2, I used Kona Turquoise, Chartreuse, Citrus, Red, and Surf.  Thank heavens for a fabric stash!

This is a fun finish for me.  Each month I make 4 quilt blocks, 2 to donate to my quilt guilds' Charity BOM project, and 2 to keep for quilts like this one.  One of the blocks in this quilt are from a class I took at Quiltcon a couple of years ago.  The quilt back is made from fabric I purchased; I thought it was printed madras patchwork.  So much for thinking, it's actually pieced; lots of squares of madras sewn together.

May your bobbins always be full,

Breezy, Quilt #1

 

This is a fun finish for me.  Each month I make 4 quilt blocks, 2 to donate to my quilt guilds' Charity BOM project, and 2 to keep for quilts like this one.  Three of the blocks in this quilt are from a class I took at Quiltcon a couple of years ago.  The quilt back is made from fabric I purchased; I thought it was printed madras patchwork.  So much for thinking, it's actually pieced; lots of squares of madras sewn together.

May your bobbins always be full,

A New Sampler Quilt.

My quilt guild, The Temecula Valley MQG is starting a Block of the Month program this year.  The goal is two-fold; first to make quilt blocks to be donated to our Charity Quilt Committee and the second goal is to have the BOM be a skill builder.  We're encouraging members to make another block or more each month for their own Sampler Quilt.

Each month a member will introduce a 12 inch BOM, it'll be posted on the TVMQG blog with a tutorial.  This is all new for us, but it should be fun.

Here is the fabric I've pulled for this BOM Challenge.

A 9 piece fat quarter set of Dear Stella by Rae Ritchie
Noe by Eric McMorris for Free Spirit (5)
Haberdashery Tape Measures for The Henley Studio Makower UK
Petal and Plume by Bari J. for Art Gallery
Nature Walk by Tamara Kate for Michael Miller (2)
Moon Rabbit, Autumn Rice by Rashida Coleman Hale for Cotton and Steele
Honor Roll by Ann Marie Horner for Free Spirit (2)
Tuesday Night Ladies Bowling League 1972 by Kimberly Kight for Cotton and Steele

This is a 12.5-inch block based on the directions at Cluck Cluck Sew.  Her measurements don't go all the way up to this size so I had to improvise.

The second block I made is the 8.5"-block with a border, to make 12.5.

And the final example is four 6.5"-blocks joined to make a 12.5"-block.

These are "my" blocks that I'm keeping.  I have a month to make the donation blocks.  Our meeting is on Thursday, and I'm excited to see everyone's response to this new program.

This should be a fun BOM Challenge, especially with all the different contributors.  I'm already working on a sampler quilt for the Solstice Challenge, but who doesn't need another quilt or two?!

May your bobbins always be full,