Child's Comfort Quilt Finish

     A year or so ago I brought home from guild comfort quilt sew day an orphan block and some matching fabric.  When I was organizing recently I pulled it out and decided to use it.  Here is the finished quilt.  

    The first block in the second row is the block I brought home which is a disappearing 4 patch.  That started me thinking "disappearing" blocks like disappearing pinwheel and disappearing hour glass from Missouri Star Quilts.  I made a few but they are not my favorite technique because of all the bias edges and finished block size.  I finally just started creating with the scraps. I normally don't make square quilts but I did not have enough of the fabric to make 3 more blocks.

   I'm linking up with Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Whoop, Whoop Friday.  

Now to more quilting on the rainy Friday.  Hope you stay in and enjoy some quilting time. 

A Little Improv and Time for Play

     On the web I ran across Amy’s “Improv Challenge” at  AmysCreativeSide.com  and decided to participate.  Each day for the past 6 days she has presented a new improv technique to try. My favorite has been gentle curves.  Here are my blocks created so far. I plan to create some more and then put some together into a small quilt. 

      Last week was spent with family and granddaughters.  Mattie made a mug rug and coasters as Valentine’s gifts. Here is a YouTube video of the easy directions.

These are the easy coasters using 4 folders squares plus foundation square, back and batting.

Both girls enjoyed decorating pencil holder cans and I’m sorry I neglected to take photos. Lily enjoyed time playing with dolls.

We also made a visit to their dad’s new office.

   I spent the day Monday sandwiching quilts; one small kid’s size and one queen size are ready and waiting for quilting.

Today was guild meeting and we were entertained and inspired by the quilt trunk show of Annette Ornelas. Check out her patterns and technique at Southwind Designs.

Enjoy time sewing or quilting

Hurricane Project Quilt Finish

      My church quilt group has been working on another quilt for a hurricane victim in Wilmington, NC.  Many of us pieced blocks; we chose the layout with the help of EQ.  Then 2 members laid out blocks and started sewing.  I added the border and pieced the back.  A week ago Wednesday we got it sandwiched for me to quilt.  I took this photo after trimming. 

I have passed the quilt and binding on for the last step but I’m counting it as a finish.  I’m proud to say this is the second quilt donated by my church group for this cause.

           

You can find out more about the project at From My CarolinaHome . 

    Yesterday afternoon I sorted scraps and hope to pull a UFO to work on.

Enjoy some time sewing or quilting