Another Scrappy Bargello

As promised, I am including a picture of my Scrappy Bargello quilt that I finished recently. It is my favorite Bonnie Hunter pattern. I made this quilt from strips that I won at our last Strip Poker Night at my quilt guild. I added some strips of my own since I did not have enough from my winnings. I am donating it to our Community Quilts program. At our June guild meeting our Community Quilts group will be donating quilts to various charity and non-profit groups. For me, this is a very emotional meeting. Representatives from the various groups receiving quilts will speak about their group and the importance of our quilt donations to them. Just recently our guild received a lovely letter, and a picture, from a mother whose newborn baby received one of our premmie quilts. It is wonderful to receive feedback from recipients of our quilts. It always gives me a warm huggy feeling inside.

Currently I am working on a quilt for a man. When I cruised through my stash, it was difficult to find fabrics that I would consider "manly" to use for this quilt. Blue and black were the colors I was looking for to complete my color selection for this particular quilt. Many of my fabrics are more appropriate to a quilt for a female, or for children. So..... I had to go fabric shopping! Whoopie! Any excuse to buy fabric is a good one for me.

Unfortunately due to the poor economy many quilt stores in our area are closing. I have to travel farther to get to a "quilt" store, not just a fabric store. But I persevered! Now I am sewing strips and squares and am over half way finished. I cannot believe how fast this quilt is going together. When I looked at the picture on the pattern, I thought there were a lot of pieces, and there are lots. But it is still fast piecing. Sometimes it is so fast that I have to stop and fix my "too fast" stitching! I think the piecing is going quickly because I do not have any triangles to match. I don't want to give triangles a bad rap, but it does take more time for me to piece and match triangles than it does to piece squares and rectangles.

Hope you all have a great weekend. For those who will celebrate Memorial Day this weekend thank you so much for honoring our soldiers, our nation's heros. It is so important to let them know how much we appreciate them. This is the time of year I hang a partiotic red, white, and blue quilt. I will keep it displayed through summer.

Happy Quilting

Row Quilt

My row quilt top is finished. We had our meeting to reveal our tops last month. I wish I had taken my camera. All the tops were different. No quilt row was the same in any quilt. They were all wonderful. After the meeting where we exchanged the last row, we took our quilt tops home to finish them. We could then add our own row, or not. I chose to add a border with blocks in the corners instead of adding another row. I thought the quilt top was long enough. If I would have added a row, I would have made my row vertical to add width to the top instead of length. But I decided to add a border all around the quilt top with star blocks in opposite corners.

I took close up pictures of the corners so you could see the detail. It is difficult to see the top and bottom in the quilt top picture. DH was holding up the top, and of course the wind was blowing so the corners were flowing back and forth.

Also I have included a picture of the grandbaby. It was taken yesterday, on Mother's Day. I don't know why I didn't think to get a picture of she and I together. It was a nice day. All the children came over (in shifts). Lizzy was about to fall asleep, but she would not give it up while she was here. Daddy was rocking her in the car seat but she did not want to miss anything (I think) so she stayed awake during their visit.

Happy Quilting