Hands2Help2020

Once again I am participating in this wonderful drive to make quilts for charity.  My first quilt that I finished and am mailing out tomorrow is for MercyQuilts.  These quilts go to Mercy Hospital in California for their cancer center - end of life arena.   All the people who are there are at the end of their battle with cancer.   The quilts are given to the patient for warmth and comfort while at Mercy Hospital and after they are gone, the family gets to keep the quilt.   I am honored to participatie with this quilt drive.  @hands2help2020  #hands2help2020

This is the finished quilt.
Here some pictures of the in progress quilting.   I love the baptist fan design.

This quilt is also my finished entry in the Scrappy Quilt Challenge that is a year long by the month challenge at Persimon Dreams .  The  9 patch is the January pattern that I made into a disappearing 9 patch block/quilt.

Gail's Quilt

Just before I found out about Jennifer and her cancer, I began a quilt for her oldest sister, Gail Ann.  Gail was diagnosed a few years ago with MS.   The disease has progressed quickly forcing Gail to retire and change her and her husbands life.   Kevin, her husband, retired at the end of last year.   They have been avid travelers, mostly by truck and camper and then truck and camper/trailer.  Gail's inability to safely walk has not slowed down their travels one bit.   She and Kevin continue to travel extensively.

They live in such a warm (not) climate, Gunnison CO, that I thought it might be a nice gift to make a quilt Gail could wrap around her in the wheelchair or when she sits on the couch.   When I found the fabrics (all from my stash!) they just seemed to call out her name.  Her is the quilt I made for her.

On the back I used a fleece blanket for added warmth.  The quilting, which was called water lilies, shows up very well in the next pics.

I had a couple extra blocks left over and so I made her a zipper bag to keep special things close to her.

I know that she is enjoying using these items!  Love you bunches Gail Ann!

Jennifer's Quilt

When I found out my SIL, Jennifer, was diagnosed with multiple types of cancer, I immediately began making a quilt for her.   I had this gorgeous floral fabric I hated to cut and I love to do the braid technique so this is what I came up with. 

 She begins her chemo today.   I hope this quilt will keep her warm and wrapped in love.

Happy 2020 (a bit late)

It is March already!  I can hardly believe it! 
And its not that I haven't been busy, cause I sure have.  But..... well time just fights with me getting on the computer.   Actually, I'd rather be sewing or singing than doing anything else. 
I got my laptop up and working and thought maybe that would motivate me to get my posts entered in a more timely manner.

So, today I finished a quilt and bag for my newest grand niece born on March 9th, Rebekah Lynn (named after her momma). 

This fabric was a piece I received from Doris Golleher, my dear friend who now lives in Heaven!
It is such a cute lamb print that I knew it would be perfect for this precious Lamb!  I backed it in flannel.   It should provide lots of warmth in the Colorado cold winters.

The rest of my completes I will add on a more daily basis to get caught up.   (Hopefully!!)

Baby Quilt

This is another finished baby quilt for church.    I think I have one more to do and I'll be caught up.  These go so quickly.  

This center panel is so cute.  Doris provided me with this one and she added the borders.  I cut all the pieces, did the quilting and put on the binding.  Check another one off!

Finished quilts

My friend picked up her finished quilt today.  I did the entire quilt in Free Motion and I love it.   She did too!  I completely forgot to take a picture of the entire quilt🙁  

Church Baby Quilts

This was a very productive month for me for getting baby quilts done.   3 of the tops were pieced by someone in our NP Comforts group at church and those I quilted and bound them.  I do machine binding on these as I know they will be washed a lot.  

Most of the quilting is stippled and done free motion.  This green bordered one I quilted loops and hearts in the outside border.  

I just realized I forgot to take a picture of the one I delivered last Sunday 🙁.  

Here are the other two.  

Then this last one was brought to me by a friend to add binding.   Her grandmother made this quilt in the early 1970's.  Believe it or not, it was machine quilted on a long arm!

Anyway, April was a busy month!   But I have loved every minute.  Oh yeah, I also made cards for these new babies.  Here are a couple of pics. 

Here's to an awesome May!

Tis the Season QAL

Cute Christmas QAL

Come join the fun!

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Dress Quilt

My good friend Doris made this beautiful quilt top and asked me to quilt it for her.  It was my pleasure!

And some block close ups!

Baby quilts!

I forgot to post these last week.  Two more church babies are covered in love!

Such fun!

UFO finish

I finally got this baby girl quilt for church finished.  It had remained borderless and unquilted for three months.  I am so glad to have it done.  

 

Baby Quilts

Just to prove I am not sitting around all day, here are the two baby quilts I made for our church babies. I'm a bit late in making them but since I couldn't sew/quilt for a few months, I have hit the ground running.  

I also made a girl quilt for my daughters niece but I need to get a picture.  I'll post that later.  

I saw a quilt on FB that a friend tagged me on by Karlee Porter.  It has inspired me.  I am going to try my hand at "graffiti quilting" on a quilt I will call PRAY.  My New Years resolution/goal is to incorporate prayer into my daily life.  I am inspired by the film War Room.  Wow!  What an incredible movie.   Anyway, as I journey thru my prayer life, the quilt will be my gift to me.  When it's finished, I will post it.  Hugs