QUILT-A-LONG WITH LORI!

 Lori, at humblequilts.blogspot.com having a quilt-a-long.  She has been doing this for years and I think I joined in her first one and many (but not all) after that.

This one is quite easy and needs 1 1/2" strips or squares.  I just happen to have lots of those on hand, so I will join in.  Here is what I found and I know where I can get lots more!

This basket has lots of strips in it that are the right size or a little larger, so I can trim them and have some 4-patches in a few minutes!  The project ends up about 25" square and will make a nice little mat that you can use on a table or counter.  It's fun to try to not use the same fabric more than once!  I have several little quilts about this size that I do use and one more will be fun!

Busy with Donation Quilts

I have been really bad - this is the longest time between blogs that I have ever had, I think!  Nobody will probably look for my blogs if this keeps up.  I have been very busy lately.  I've made and/or quilted several donations.  This first one was made by a friend in one of my guilds (Gone to Pieces which meets in McMinnville, OR).  She does beautiful work but doesn't quilt.  We have 2 long arm quilters in this guild and one has been out sick for quite a while and the other one is super busy with jobs (probably busier because the other long arm quilter has been out), and neither one of them is able to quilt the donation quilts.  As you may know, I always quilt my own quilts on my domestic sewing machine, so I have been quilting a few for this quilt guild.

This pink one is one that I made (totally) and it will be donated through the guild to "The Family Place" which is an organization that helps new parents adjust to their new role.

This is another quilt that I just quilted for donation.

TheThe second guild that I belong to (Willamette Valley Quilters) meets in Dayton, OR and they also make quilts to donate.  This is one that I made for them.  They had the fabrics bundled together along with the pattern and it was easy for me because I have made several "Cat" quilts from a different pattern, but that has the same type of cats.

At the one of the last meeting of the Willamette Valley guild, we had a speaker who does beautiful work and I took several pictures.  I love the blue chickens with the orange background.

This dog face was amazing!!

Thanks for visiting!!  These next few months will be busy.  I have been working on some Christmas table runners that I hope to sell and we will be traveling for Thanksgivins and possibly for Christmas.  The weather is now getting cooler and it is raining more, which we need.  I like the cooler days, but don't especially like it when it is super cold!!  Happy fall!!

QUILTS FROM THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY QUILTERS SHOW

 I'm sorry it has taken so long to post some quilts from the quilt show last month.  Just not organized enough to get it done.  I volunteered as one of the "white glove" ladies and after 2 1/2 hours of walking around, up and down the rows, I was really tired.  I'm not adding the information about each one - it's too hard to get them right.

This Dear Jane quilt was right next to mine, which you probably have seen a long time ago.  It not, you can type "Dear Jane" in the upper left corner and it will come up.  I was talk                 ing with the lady who made it and she made 2 of them because when she gave this one to one of her sons, her second son said he would like one too, so she made another one.  I give her a lot of credit for making 2 of the Dear Jane quilt.  Not that it's impossible, but I just don't think I could make another one.

This hanky/states quilt was really pretty!

I'm working on this house quilt now.  My houses are all blue and I'm getting ready to do the branches.

One day recently the temperature got up to 99 degrees and it might do that again.    I'm so grateful for air conditioning.  

QUILT SHOW NEXT WEEK, JUNE 20 & 21

The Willamette Valley Quilters will present their quilts at the quilt show on June 20 and 21.  I will be there on June 20 in the afternoon (if anyone wants to meet up with me).  I will have 3 of my best quilts in the show!  The Willamette Valley Quilters meets in Dayton, Oregon on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 10:00 AM.  We have special speakers at most of our meetings and recently we had an amazing trunk show by Lynn Czaban, who shared her portrait quilts.  Here are a few of them.

 

Her work is amazing!  She spends lots of time making each one and has won numerous awards from various quilt shows!  

Speaking of quilt shows, this is the information about the show mentioned above:

If you do come, please let me know so I can meet you (if we don't already know each other).

Donation Quilts

 I finished some more baby quilts for donation lately and have taken them to my guild so they can be taken care of.  Probably most of the baby quilts we make go to "The Family Place" which helps new parents.

I didn't buy any of the fabric, except for the green fabric that I used for the backing on the pink quilt.  All the fabric was either given to me by a friend, or from the guild.  They passed around a box and said to take some 5" squares, so the is what I used for the pink quilt.

Back of the previous quilt.

This one was just a piece of fabric, batting & backing to take home and put together & finish

I got the green fabric at my favorite thrift shop and it was quite a deal!  There was about 4 yards, so I still have some available to us on another baby quilt.  

I also donated a large twin size quilt that I made with a almost million 2 1/2" squares.  This picture doesn't show the whole quilt because I didn't have a chance to hang it up anywhere.

I will have 3 quilts hanging in the quilt show in June - Quilts in Bloom - in McMinnville on June 20 & 21.  I changed my volunteer work from Saturday morning to Friday Afternoon because there is something else that I want to go to on Saturday.  

Hope you are enjoying good weather where you are and thanks for visiting.       

A QUILT SHOW BY A GUILD IN SALEM, OR

 Last Friday (already a week ago?) I went to a quilt show held by a large guild and was not disappointed at all.  There were so many wonderful quilts that I can't possibly show you all the ones that were amazing, but here are most of the ones I liked best.

This is the one I would have voted as my favorite (if I hadn't forgotten to put the vote in the box).

These next 2 quilts were displayed as quilts that were in prior shows.

This blue & green one is made up of scraps.  She was sewing colored scraps together and then decided to put them together like this.  A great idea!  I think I might start sewing scraps together in colors and see what happens.

This cat quilt is adorable!

This is a table runner and if you look closely you can see the quilting depicts smoke coming out of the chiminys.

 

This star quilt is amazing and I love it, but I wouldn't want to make it.

Don't you just love going to quilt shows?  The beauty is so uplifting and just makes one want to keep quilting, doesn't it?  I think I need to slow down my quilting for a while so I can work on my family history, which I have been trying to do but I keep having things to sew.

I have been planting a lot of flowers around my house.  Last year I tried growing flowers from seed and I have given up on that.  So this year I'm buying plants already blooming.  My first ever poppy is blooming!  My walking friend and I had loved some poppies that we walked past a couple years ago.  We took some seeds and planted them.  This year one of her seeds sprouted!  But I haven't seen any poppies come up from the seeds I planted.  Ugh.  This is 2 views of the one I purchased.  There is another bud coming soon.  

Thanks for visiting!