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!  

HISTORIC PANELS

Since my favorite fabrics are reproductions of 1800s fabrics, I love historic panels, of which I only have two.  My first one was found at a quilt shop in a barn on a hill in Oregon and this was years before we moved here.  We were visiting our son and family and my granddaughter and I went fabric shopping at this quilt shop that was not too far from where my son & family lived. 

My granddaughter was looking through the fat quarters and found this one - Old Glory.  I turned it into a pillow case and it is the middle pillow on our bed, but is not actually slept on.  I love this panel. 

 I can't say that I looked really hard for more, but not long ago I came across one in Boersma's Quilt Shop, which is very close to my home.  It was in the basement and I had never seen it in the shop before, so I decided to buy it.  This is the "Grant and the Generals of the Army of the Potomac."

I have it for sale in my Etsy Shop and now I am making a couple of ways that it can be displayed.  I did make a pillow out of it which is in the picture below.  I am working on a wall hanging suggestion.

In the mean time, I purchased a book by Kim Diehl and Jo Morton, "Simple Friendships."  This is a great book and I have been using it and hope to make other projects too.

I also purchased a book by Betsy Chutchian, "Hope's Journey."  I love everything that Betsy does because I took her class in Texas over 10 years ago and it was "Jo's Little Women Club."  The patterns were small quilts made with by Jo Morton and using her fabrics and I think it was 10 classes, once a month.  It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot!  Betsy is a great teacher and she has done a lot since I was in her class as she now designs fabric and is very famous!!

Thanks for reading my blog and for the many comments I have received  recently.  I am keeping busy in the sewing room lately!  Right now, I have 2 items that need basting and hope to get to them next week.

Happy quilting!