Novelty bargello and cow

These are a couple more quilts done by the gang at the sew day at my house. They were quilted on Hoot.

The bargello measures 48 X 74" and has a pieced back. It went to Sojourner Center.

The cow quilt is 45 X 68" and went to UMOM.

8 months since I've been here

Well, I've been busy, what can I say?? Ray had a couple back surgeries and I started a new job - three months only per year. I have gotten a lot of quilts quited on Hoot.

Here's a purple Yellow Brick Road which was donated. Cathy quilted it on Hoot and Ellen did the fancy stitch binding on her machine. This quilt was donated to Sojourner Center and measures 40 X 45".

The next one is four sets of pillow panels. These qilts were put together at a sew day at my house in April 2008. (I'm only a little late getting them published, huh?) The quilt measures 41 X 65" and was donated to UMOM.

Quilt by Dianna

One of my California granddaughters, Dianna, went thru my stash on the third day of their visit, pulling fabrics, and we put this D9P quilt together in three or four days. There are four other non-D9P blocks in there from quilterscache.com . Those blocks are from the Magic Box pattern. Dianna wants another border, echoing the one around the medallion, and I need to get to the LQS for the fabric, then can get on Hoot for her.

Staying green

I don't send much of anything from my sewing room to the landfill. Since I've had a long arm, I've had more trimmings of the excess batting and fabric at the edge of the quilt. Instead of tossing these into the trash, I've started using sturdy fabric to make a bag, leaving an opening for stuffing. All those scraps go into there and when it's full enough, I top stitch the opening closed. I write, in permanaent marker, "Machine wash and dry. Shake to fluff" along one edge and then donate these bags to a dog rescue shelter for use as dog beds. I'd rather make a bed to keep a caged dog off the cold concrete than send the scraps to a landfill to provide rats with material to make nests. :-)

Annette's quilt for Rachel's wedding gift

While Annette was visiting with me this summer in Idaho, we finished all the blocks needed for the quilt for her granddaughter and new grandson-in-law. I'll post pictures of the on point setting, the square set, and the probably border layout that she has chosen. She has decided on the on-point layout, and does plan to make the green border slightly narrower and the blue on slightly wider, but green still wider than blue.

Another UFO bites the dust!

Here's a 60" X 78" quilt that I quilted this morning. It still needs trimming and binding. I'm happy to get more UFOs done, but wonder why there doesn't seem to be any more space in the quilting room? This pattern is Four Patch Nine from www.quilterscache.com

More quilts completed

I've been a busy little bee, working on getting some quilts finished. Top left is a pattern I found in a magazine, which I need to dig out. I want to make another one of these. I bought pre-quilted borders, os had a challenge applying them correctly. Top right is a pattern called Lilabet's Garden, which was a block of the month pattern on a yahoo group. Midlle left is Logan's quilt. Her Mom, Dad and Logan are in the picture. Logan did most of the sewing getting the blocks constructed. Once blocks were put into rows, it was a bit much for her to manage.

Middle right is Nine Patch Garden. It involves trapunto, and I worked several years, getting this one to a completed stage. Bottom photo is a ssouthwest fabric Disappearing Nine Patch, with the trimmings from the 5" squares being used to make a piano key border.