One previous finished quilt that I forgot to take a picture of. I had made two survivor quilts and the other had a 16 patch in each corner. The first one I posted was in my last blog.
In the spring of 2020, our Modern guild community quilt coordinators decided to retire from their position and wanted all the donated fabric out of their guest rooms. They held a huge 'come and take' party in the front yard of one of our members who lives central to most of the membership. I ended up taking a few 'bags' of projects that had been put together with no plan in mind other than the fabrics went together. These pink fabrics are from one of the bags and I need to decide what I am going to make with them.
These next two quilt tops were made from one bag of fabric that contained all the stripes put together in a strip set. I decided to cut each of the strip sets in half and then made new sets with green added to one and blue added to the other. These two tops are now waiting for quilting and binding. It feels good to work on something that has been waiting for me for 2 years!
Another bag of fabrics had some yardage of the train fabrics and the red. There was a blue but I really didn't like it for going with the train so chose a blue and a green out of my stash and made happy blocks. There was enough train fabric to add borders top and bottom and once those are added, I will have more quilts waiting to be quilted and bound and donated back to the guild for Victim Services.
These two blocks are my October choice for using the Patterns by Jen and her choice of sage. I have been making two each month and alternating the light and the dark colours.
Simplicity II is coming along and I am halfway done making blocks. These are up on the wall to encourage me to keep stitching. Each of these blocks has a matching partner because one strip set of two fabrics makes two blocks.
One day last week I was totally lacking in motivation but, at the same time, was trying to tidy and organize. I had a large pile of leftover batting pieces and I spent the afternoon matching them up for width and attaching them to each other. I also measured them! So now, I have 5 battings ready for the quilts waiting on hangers to be layered, ready for quilting.
A finished quilt for Survivors of Residential schools. This was made using an assortment of fat quarters and since there is a request for us to include orange fabric, I was able to pull out and use some that I had on hand. This is now quilted and bound and need to connect with Vanessa to get the names and addresses of recipients.
The Jelly Roll Saturday quilt is finished and has been donated to my guild. The fabric was all sheep and farm scenes and the jelly roll was one that had been sitting around for too long.
Floating triangles is also finished and donated to my guild so it can taken to the NICU at our local hospital. I liked this so much, I think it will be one of my 'go to' patterns for charm squares.
I had two projects in bags that were remnants of fabrics put together by one of our guild members and ziploc bags were sealed so you couldn't peek too much. The bags were tossed to us at the September meeting and I decided that they would not become UFO's and sit around waiting to they are both completed, labeled and handed in for community quilts.
Two more preemie quilts for the NICU and started these because charms were the choice of fabric for my Heartstrings group for October. I made a mistake on one and without thinking, cut my strips for the 4 patch at 2.5". Well, that didn't work out because they made 4.5" squares, too small to match up with the 5" charms. So, I cut down the charms to fit the 4 patches and carried on. However, I figured I should make one the correct size (note to self, use 2.75" strips to end up with 5" four patches. Both of these are now in the hands of the We Care coordinator for distribution to a wee premature baby.
Step three of the Meadowland mystery was handed out on Oct 6th and I got busy right away and made my blocks. Done and put away until the first Thursday of November.
The modern guild that I belong to is doing a different block of the month idea. We are using the colour wheel and following instructions as to which kind of colour scheme we are working with. Starting with a triangle, as per instructions, I chose red and the complementary colour was green but we were to use the adjacent colours so, blue greens and yellow greens in my case.
I am hoping I will have some larger, finished quilts to show you soon. My piecing that is waiting for me is adding the borders to the train quilt and finish making my Simplicity II blocks but, otherwise, am trying to not start anything new until I have made an effort to start loading and quilting tops and get a few of those completed. We are stuck inside our house because the smoke in our valley is thick and horrible. You can smell it and really wants to give you a headache. Even though, not really needed, we are running our a/c with a good filter in the furnace, to clean the air in the house. Quite a few appointments this coming week but some I welcome because I really do need new orthotics and I actually love getting my teeth cleaned (well, I love the feeling of clean teeth, not the actual cleaning).
As long as this dry weather continues (breaking records here for high temperatures and days without rain), there will be morning tennis daily with the senior's group. We have fun and get in our steps which is good as we age, somewhat gracefully!
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