More quilts finished and Blessed

It's been such a blessing to see how many of these quilts can come to life and be finished!!

This one was created because of the beautiful fall fabric. Not wanting to cut up this fabric into small pieces, we used a large 8" square block, framed with fabrics that would match the leaf fabric. We put them together with a broder of the fall fabric, so it gives the illusion of the frames rising above the leaves. Makes me think of leaves floating under a bridge, which may end up being the name of this quilt. Green plaid is on the backing, with various strips of the frame fabrics as the binding. Two possible names...1. Leaves Under the Bridge, 2. Floating Leaves. 

 This  one is a quilt that Mary Ellen did using blocks that she'd made from a 'Block of the Month' project and it looks a little bit Asian, hence the name, Asian BOM. Nice black and white florentine backing was used.

This quilt was a Black and White Challenge, done with Vernon Nutmeg quilters, when Nancy was a member. She had these blocks from the challenge and had never put them together. Considering them to be 'orphan blocks' from this project, she put them together with sashing to enlarge the quilt, then added a brilliant blue thin border, with a larger black print border. The backing is pieced and the binding is solid black. It's called "Challenge Me".

 

I love seeing them laying over the railings at church when they get blessed. It's such a special moment.

 These two are laying near the babbling pond in front of the pulpit. Love these.
Stay tuned for more....

Quilts being finished.....

There have been so many finished quilts that are quickly spoken for, that I've not always had my camera to take the photos.... However, here are some of the finished ones before they find a home.

This is one made by MaryEllen, called "Angels Among the Stars". It was a pattern that I saw online and sent the photo and what I thought would be good instructions for the group to make (wonky star blocks) and this is what she made with all her scraps! She had it machine-quilted by Laura McCarrick, co-owner of Quilting by the Yard quilt shop. Big AND beautiful!

 This one is finished... It was my experiment with the pattern "Trip around the World" (center design), but I found I didn't like doing it on a large basis, so I kept framing it with florals until it got to a nice lap quilt size. I had intended it to be used as a small tablecloth for my personal use, then decided to donate it to the group. It's called "English Gardens".

 The backing is a lovely rock garden fabric, widened by the green fabric.

 This quilt was made by Enid and brought in to be finished. We added a Fairy land backing and called it "Fairies in the Dessert".  Also a nice lap sized quilt.

 This quilt top was made by Marilyn and was brought in to finish. We used a striped backing and rolled it to the front for the binding. It's called "Pretty Boxes Tied with Riboons".

 This little cutie is called "Stop Driving on the Grass". Just a mishmash of leftover panel strips from another quilt. Great kid quilt.

This was discussed at our last meeting. This quilt was put together, but found to be wavy around the edges. I took it home to fix and after removing the borders, trimming the last row of the quilt's edges, when I went to measure the borders to re-sew I found them to be 3" longer than the quilt!! How they were put on without noticing, it a mystery. But it is now fixed and should be done in the next few months.

Quilts moved on without a photo

Some of the quilts that were camera-shy were the following:

Prisms, a heartstring quilt that went to a man who'd been very depressed lately.

Generation Gap (although I think it's in the post called "Soup & Sandwiches"), was delivered by hand to a ladies porch in the next town. She was at the hospital when it was delivered, dealing with cancer. She came home to find it on her enclosed porch. Good timing.

Salt Water Taffy, you can see it in the above post in the making....Was hand delivered after a Sunday service.

"Soup & Sandwiches" event a success!

We had such a good turnout and got so much done that it got the 'juices' flowing to keep going until we get the rest of our 'in stages' quilts are done!! (I think I counted close to 21 quilts ready to be 'sandwiched', but the 6 hrs won't be long enough to get them all done). Eight ladies showed up to work and they stayed much longer than the 6 hrs. I had to almost move people out at 4:20pm!! (I would have kept you if I could, you know that).  I do know what we'll be doing for the next few meetings, ladies.

Thanks to Deanna and Delaney who brought our lunch, Potato and Artichoke soup, with some roasted garlic bread. It was delicious!! Also to Anna, who brought some hearty bread to add to our lunch.

Kathy S always seems to be setting the place on fire with what she gets accomplished at home. Here is one that she donated (finished). Since the line of fabric was called "Bermuda", we decided to call this quilt "Bermuda Birdhouses".

 

This one Kathy had decided a name for already...."The Generation Gap". Perfect, because it combined vintage 1940s fabrics and modern butterflies.

It's really a cute quilt!

 

She also had a QOV quilt top finished -with it's pillowcase (we'll be sending to Alycia in CO for someone in the Navy). It was made with leftover fabric from the quilt she made her son who was in the Navy in Afghanistan last year.

 

 This cute little green top was put together by Margaret M. It's a disappearing 9-patch pattern. Hasn't got a name yet....

Delaney and her mom got to work tying this pretty yellow and blue snowball quilt that I believe Marilyn made and donated at the last mtg. Yellow ties in the sashing and matchy colors on the snowballs. Nice work. alled "Snowballs in the Sun".

My mom, Muriel is ironing away....At age 85, she still loves to keep busy with our quilts. She even took two home to finish the binding on. She's ironing "The Orphan Project".

Dot and Margaret work on tying this sweet peachy quilt that Marilyn made and donated. The binding is rolled up on the table next to the quilt. Makes me think of "Salt Water Taffy"... good name.

 

Anna and Margaret are tying this quilt that we've had for a long time. It just got put aside for other things... It was an experiment on our heartstring pattern. I think the name is "Prisms". I'll have to look back in the blog to when it got started (2008-or 2009?) 

Muriel finished binding this green sudoku quilt (green checked back) that Margaret made. It ended up getting blessed the next day during our church service. to the left of it is "See the Colors in a Black and White World".

 Kathy was busy at her sewing machine. Great that she got the bindings put on so many quilts. Now just for the hand work.

 

 Delaney worked with the bindings to see what would go nicely with this "Martians on the Move" quilt. Our need to recycle overroad what she'd picked out. We figured we had enough to roll the backing over. Saved the bindings for other quilts.

 

Quilts at the trimming station.

 This quilt will get the backing rolled over for the binding. It's a great soft red with blue stars on it. Called "Dee's Dilema".

 

This is the finished "Green Sudoku" quilt. Muriel bound it while there.

 This cute little one was made and donated by Marilyn. We put a green/white striped fabric on the back and will roll that over for the binding. I think the name just came to me... "Pretty Boxes Tied with Ribbons".

 

We even got to deliver a quilt to Anna's son who is suffering from Congestive Heart Failure. Donated "Back in Maine".

 

Great job, ladies!!!!

 

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Getting ready for our "Soup & Sandwiches" 6 hr event. I should also say this is our start of the second 100 posts on our blog!  I can't wait to post photos of the day. So far I think there are 6-8 ladies coming....

Quilts for a Cancer patient

Marilyn picked up a quilt for a friend of a friend who has cancer. Claire A., a 68 yr old woman is suffering from ovarian and uterine cancer. She has been sent the Marilyn's Chrismas quilt (shown here in the process of being finshed).

March meeting

Had only four ladies show up, then got two more to show, but they could only stay for a short time. Long enough to make sure I could send home some batting for a teal/tan heartstring top that Enid (shown here) brought in (and backing... did the diagonal thing to lengthen it and pinned it so she could sew it together at home). It will be named "Fairies in the Desert".

Mary Ellen brought in a top also, but we didn't have a backing big enough for it (6x8 blocks- hs), but it did make us think we needed to go to Marden's for some backs. It was a beautiful couple of tops they had....Thanks, ladies.

 

All our intentions were to match up the tops that were finished with backings (and find out who didn't have anything that would match), take notice of the quilts that had bindings and which ones could have the backing wrapped around to the front. It's amazing to see which ones we still had left. Wow....

This is a nice one made by Marilyn L, and I found a nice blue, night sky with moons, but the yellow I had for the binding will hav to go down the middle to widen it. "Snowballs in the Sun".

This backing fabric, never made it to the quilt next to it. We had better choices once we went looking.

This is another blue framed one, haven't named it yet....I wanna name it "Blue Belly", due to the blue squares in the middle (it's belly), but I'm sure it will call a name out when it has one.

This lime green selvedge needs more parts. We need to get more lime green and make 11 more blocks to finish it. The green and brown fabric laying on it are the backing and binding for it.

This little cutie we found wrapped up in some fabirc, that may have been meant for it's backing, but we found a better backing or it. Not sure who made this... but there was another space one with this same space fabric in it. It almost looks oriental... lovely. "Martians on the Move".