Fund Raising Quilts Finished

I finished both quilts Friday morning about 5:15 A.M. DD picked them up on her way to work. Everyone she talked to said that they looked great. I took some pictures and will attach later. The camera is downstairs and I am upstairs for the night.

Have a great day.

Fund Raising Quilt Update

I have the binding sewn on the NICU quilt and am hand stitching it on.

The other baby quilt is pieced and quilted. I wanted to use the feather stitch on my machine, but after three unsewing of about 20" total I gave up and just did a straight stitch from corner to corner on the blocks.

I need to sew the binding on and finish the quilt.

DD will be picking them both up tomorrow morning about 7:25 A.M.

Have a great day.

Sorry to be gone so long.

Memorial Day before it got too hot I decided to finish weeding the flower garden in front of the house. Big mistake! While weeding I dislocated my artificial right hip. After a ride in the ambulance and x-rays the doctors attempted a reduction. Basically it is an attempt to put the ball into the socket. They were not successful.

From Monday morning at about 7:30 until Wednesday morning at 11:00 I was totally bed bound. The pain was minimal and I was able to just relax and be prepared for surgery.

The surgery was done and only two parts of the artificial joint were needing replacement. After surgery the pain was so minimal that I did not need pain medication. They told me not to be a hero because pain would slow recovery.

Basically I lost 8 days of anything other than watching TV or reading.

Yesterday my daughter called. A fellow co-worker is off work because her husband is in hospice and not expected to be with us much longer. DD wondered if we could put a basket together for a raffle that our co-workers are planning to help our our friend. I immediately thought of the preemie quilt that has never been quilted. Also I recently learned a very simple pattern that can be made in various sizes from a baby quilt to queen size quilt. DD helped me pick the fabric from my stash to make the baby quilt.

I finished the quilting on the preemie quilt before supper and need to iron, cut and sew the top for the baby quilt. I do not think I have the right fabric for the back of the baby quilt or anything for binding. Guess my DH will have to wheel me around Jo Ann's Fabric this evening to get some fabric.

Have a great day

Scrap Therapy

My LQS offers a class on the first Saturday of the month called Scrap Therapy. It is broken into two parts. The first is to learn what size pieces to cut for usable sizes. The second is to make things out of all the usable pieces.

Last night I ironed for almost 3 hours on what scraps I could find. I have a lovely ziploc bag full of the first of many scrap bags.

Have a great day.

What did I do on the Friday Night Sew In?

I played with EQ6. Did you know that there is a version 7 coming out in June. I still have so many things to learn about 6 that I an in a quandary about what to do. I can get a great price on the upgrade if I pre-order before May 31. I will think it out again.

I decided to see what I could design with only HST. It was a lot of fun. Then I added a border. and when I was finished I had added a total of seven borders.

Would you like to see what I did?

First I designed the center arrangement of the HST. I added a border and this is what turned out.



The I went crazy and added six more borders.



I think it all turned out rather nifty.

Friday Night Sew In for May

Friday, May 21 is the Friday Night Sew In. I cannot wait. I have a list ten miles long of what I want to do.

I have narrowed it down to the BOM for the Civil War Tribute and the Shop Hop last summer in Dayton / Cincinnati. I only have a few blocks left to do.

Talk to you later.

Are you getting tired of Dutch Breakfast Club?

I finished squareing up the HST in red and sewed the final pinwheels together Sunday evening. The next challenge is to sew the sides to the newest pinwheels. After that is completed I will sew the dark HST and med light HST to the rectangles. Once that is completed I will sew the top, center and bottom strips into blocks. I believe that I have in excess of 25 blocks to sew. At a finished size that will be 40" by 40".

There are still additional fabric to sew more HST and rectangles. That will determine the size of the final project. A lap quilt needs 56 blocks to finish up a 56 by 64 lap quilt. I definitely have enough fabric for that. A standard / queen size quilt needs 192 blocks to finish up at 88 by 104. I think that the queen size is beyond my current stash. However, I bought the red and background fabrics within the last 8 weeks and it should sill be available at my LQS.

All depends on my desire for a new quilt in the master bedroom. Also, it would be the 2nd quilt on my new quilting frame. I have no intention of it being the first!

Have a great day