Hands 2 Help Quilts

     Thank you to Mari ( AcademicQuilter) for stepping up to lead the 2022 H2Hchallenge.  I'm linking up to show my 2 finished quilts to share.

    First, I used Pat Sloan's March Block a Day challenge to get started. I used her String Bean block. It is a rectangle variation of a log cabin block and easy. I stopped at 16 so the quilt would finish 54 by 66”.

     Last year I fell in love with the Winter Blues quilts for Covered in Love. I pulled blue and green units from my stash to make this quilt. This is my free piecing version of those quilts finishing at 56 by 68”. 

I hope the blue and green quilts will suit male or female.  Both quilts will be donated locally to patients in Hospice care. Hope you will think about participating in the future.

Stay safe and healthy while enjoying some time sewing and quilting.

Happy Quilting Month

     I hope you are enjoying Quilting Month and that you did something special for World Quilting Day. Pat Sloan showed the free pattern from Fat Quarter Shop “Layer Cake Lattice” and I chose to work on it also. I already had a few leftover layer cake squares I planned to use and then pulled from my stash. I found it easy to use 4 ½” strips in my scrap user stash. By Sunday afternoon I had 35 blocks pieced. Here is my layout. Monday morning Pat Sloan shared a neat offset layout but I don't have enough background fabric to do that this time. The blocks were easy sewing for a quick charity quilt.

    Now is the time to sign up to participate in this Hands2Help.  This year it is hosted by the Academic Quilter.  Hope you will join in.

     I spent many hours 2 days sewing to prepare my ball to make a jelly roll rug.  This is my first and the first part took longer than I expected.  A member of my church quilt group will help us Wednesday get started sewing the rug.

 

Progress on my goals for this year continue:
1  finish UFOs

No UFO progress.

2.  decrease stash fabric

Stash fabric used or added:

this past week- Used: 5 yds Added: 0 yd

So far this year- Used: 43 yds Added: 9 yd

3.  control and use scrap fabric

I used 4 1/2” strips and cut a few more for the Layer Cake Lattice.

4. make charity/comfort quilts

I added the borders to finish my QOV mystery “Stop Tossing” from Alyciaquilts.blogspot.com .  It will be donated to my guild QOV group to quilt and present.

Stay safe and healthy while enjoying some time sewing and quilting.