Designing Monday

I had lots of fun at Quilt Camp over the weekend.  They fed us too well and there was lots of time for yakking and sewing and there is even a quilt shop about a mile down the road.  It is next door to a really nice shop with tons of Vera Bradley bags.  So lots of shopping time too.  The hotel we stay in is  so happy to have us since it is their off season.  Here are my projects I worked on:

 Borders completed.

 Closeup of borders.  Such cute fabric.

I pre-cut most of this and sewed like crazy trying to finish it on Friday.  Unfortunately there was quite a bit of rework in the sewing - partly my fault and partly the pattern, so it ate up most of Saturday, too.  This is a freebie at Temecula Quilt Co.'s blogsite if you are interested.  It is a valentine quilt.  Beware that the borders do not fit according to their instructions.  I believe they gave an incorrect dimension for the red inner border.

I also worked on 2 other projects but didn't make much progress there.

Hop over to Judy's blog to see some other beautiful designs.

Designing Monday

I finished the binding on this quilt last night.  It is made from some gifted fabric from Pat Sloan's giveaway plus some other fabrics that I added.  The pattern is from Pat's blog and is called Eat Your Fruits N' Veggies.  The fabric line has the same name.  I really think it turned out cute and my plan is to donate it to our guild who in turn will give it to a local hospital pediatric ward.

With the remaining fabrics from the layer cake of Pat's fabric, I have pieced together Disappearing 4 Patch blocks.  I haven't quite figure out how best to piece these together to meet the size requirements from the guild, but these are also destined for donation.

Hop on over to Judy's blog to see some more beautiful designs.

Designing Monday

I am working on comfort quilts for the local quilt guild.  The recipients are children in the pediatrics ward at one of the hospitals here in town.  Our church stitching group was gifted quite a bit of fabric from someone's stash.  Most of it was bits and pieces so I had to sort thru piles and piles and then iron and iron until I had something useable.

 There were some larger pieces like quarter and half yards, but much of it had been cut into in shapes like bodices or facings or collars, so I had to really be creative to find the grain line and then to figure out what size square I could come up with.

I tried to stick with a color theme, but soon I realized that to get best use of the fabric I would need to focus on size.  So I created stacks of 8" down to 5" squares.

 I ended up strip piecing some of the larger blocks to have enough. 

 Right now I have enough to make 6 tops.  I have finished piecing the two made from 8 inch squares 

(Might as well start with the easy ones first, right?)  

One in pink and purple

One in RW&B

I used my Joann's coupons to buy backing and batting for these two and plan to finish those this week.

 I just love the cupcakes and stripes and pink cows and purple butterflies.

The lady who organizes this project for our guild made 80 of these quilts in one month using 6 inch blocks and she quilted and bound them as well.  She must be one with her Bernina! 

Hop on over to Judy's blog for more designing ideas.