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This is the donation quilt our quilting bee made. Last week Roberta (peeking up over the quilt), Jeanne (on the right) and I went to an Alzheimers office to donate our beautiful heart quilt. In this picture, the lady on the left is Sheila who works at the facility. She was so sweet and kind. I can see how she would work well with Alzheimers patients. The manager came out of a meeting to greet us and accept the quilt as a donation for their upcoming art auction/sale. We are hoping this quilt will raise lots of money for this Alzheimers organization.
Cindy Carter is the designer of this quilt pattern. Our quilting group had a fun time making the blocks for this quilt. I sewed together the blocks and added the borders, Jeanne did the binding and Roberta crafted a great label for the quilt. One of our members did the machine quilting. I wish you could see it up close so that you could see the beautiful machine quilting.
Now that this quilt is finished and donated, it is on to our next project. I truly enjoy working on group projects like this. It gives me a great sense of community when we can make and donate a beautiful quilt like this to a worthy organization.
This is another baby quilt that I finished last week. It has already been gifted, and the baby boy was born last Friday. The focal fabric I used in this quilt was left over fabric from another baby quilt that I made for one of our teachers at the school I was working at the time. I do not remember buying so much of this fabric, but I have enough left to make one, or maybe two more baby quilts. There were several teachers having babies that year as I remember. I was making baby quilts for months! I still make lots of baby quilts it seems. I think baby quilts are my favorite quilt to make. They are small, and usually fast to make.
This quilt top was made in a weekend. With nine patches and an alternate square of the focal fabric, it went together quickly. I really like the diagonal pattern made by the nine patches. My inspiration for this design came from a book by Ursula Reikes, Even More Quilts for Baby Easy as A B C.
Happy Spring and Happy Quilting
Part of this quilt is a panel. I added borders so it was a quick one to do. I sewed the binding all by machine - my first time using this technique. I had some issues with the corners, but by the fourth corner, I had conquered the technique. It certainly was faster than sewing the back down by hand, but I do like to do the binding by hand. It is satisfying to me to push the needle in and out of the binding. My corners are better when I hand sew the binding. I did go back and hand stitch the miters on the corners on this quilt so that the binding on the corners would not pop out at any time. I also know how much babies like to chew on things. I was worried our grandson would chew the corner off on his quilt, but it held well, thank goodness!
There are two more baby quilts I have to bind. I have more time to do these two even though the baby may be born already. One quilt is for the new baby and the other is for the big brother. Big brother's baby quilt is really too small for him now even though he will not give it up to his new brother! So I made him a bigger one. It ended up much bigger than I had intended.
Yesterday was National Quilting Day. I joined some sister quilters and actually did some hand quilting on a quilt I am working on that is for my husband. I have a couple more rows to go before that one is finished. I hope you had some time to sew or quilt yesterday.
Happy Quilting
