I helped Jade make couple quilts for the kids.
They both received them at Christmas.
This is the Christmas 2015 quilt. Designed in March while still in TX, hand stitched all year since !
These were made while in TX , Finished since we got home on the long arm machine.. A learning curve ! Then shipped back to the Tip O Tx park for the various Good Deeds the sewing groups there do.
The following are tops that I didn't get finished before the end of the year and were then sent with out the batting to a mission in Poland.. A woman there finishes them.
The 7 above were sent to Poland.
while on the Facebook I saw a pic of a guy cutting salesman samples and silly me asked what they did with the leftovers,, the cut offs. The reply was they donate them to some quilter ladies. ......well Hey ! Im a quilter lady !..
The Hoffman Company sent me a very nice bundle of their end cuts. They were then cut, sewn, and quilted into 3 quilts. What fun to work with all those colors.
Teaching Jade to quilt I had to make the same pattern and keep a step ahead of her!
so Leighton and Remy lucked out with new quilts too.
The Hoffman Fabric package.
From a pattern found online. I used up a ton of yellow scrap complimented with a dark forest green.. Think the pattern was called 'garnet trace'.
This was inspired by several precut bundles of 5" sq batiks...Aaron recvd this for Christmas.
a child size quilt done with 1 1/5" strips from the bin.. gifted to a new great nephew.
Created from a bundle of 10" squares with doodley butterfly quilting.. a learning curve LOLLL
.. on going progress on the Christmas 2015 whole cloth hand quilting.
From the leftovers box,, bunches and bunches of bright triangles and a border print picked up in Paducah Ky. Raelle recvd this for Christmas.
Several years ago when I was selling on EBay,, They gave me hell and pulled this batch of blocks from the listings,, I had it listed as Dick and Jane... that was an oops! Those blocks have sat in the closet since 03?? and now called to me to be newest Grandsons quilt.. He recvd it for Christmas.
from a busy nautical motif print found in Paducah and combined with various red, blue , tan to grow into a quilt for Scott, in their sunroom.
Shell and Scott recvd this for Christmas.
Also from the pattern Garnet Trace.. done in many pale blues and chocolate brown. This grew into a good sized quilt and was gifted to a family friend a proud soldier.
the back.
From a bundle of precut 5' squares purchased back in 06 while still attending PO school in Okla.. this one has bloomed into a nice size quilt to be gifted to Larry at Christmas.
a picture of the ladies at the No IA fair picking over /judging on Loris quilt
One of the first I tried to quit on the big long arm. It is made from a floral panel yardage found in Paducah.
Linda and I spruced up the basement with My Sunshine found in flee market while in TX.
My rendition of an Equilateral triangle quilt I saw on a shop wall in Kansas city. Later sent to Tx park ladies for Good Deeds.
a kid size bright quilt stitched on the long arm this spring,, getting little braver.....
Pink Shopping totes with some bright fabric Shell found that matches her purse.
a bargello made in Tx, quilted when we got home in April.
Tequila Sunrise quilt getting stitched on the long arm...Debbie won the family drawing for this at Christmas.
I had fun making this fall colored braid quilt while in Tx. It is a great use for a large sack of scrappy colors.
..gifted to a local soldier.
My time in Tx was spent with lots and lots of sewing time. I brought home 27 quilt tops in April!!
I took down 3 large bins of fabric.. and came home with just as much in different boxes...
made in Tx, later quilted here and sent back to the Tx ladies
This one made in TX and later sent to Poland.
all 3 above stars were sent to Poland.
In January a good friend sent me a bundle of pretty batiks with the request to DO something different.... I did.
I drafted and paper pieced this pointy star.
on the old trusty well used 301 singer.
both the above Carpenter stars were later sent to Poland.
How does your Garden Grow?? mine grew in mini batiks in Feb/ March with the spring like temps.. I still need to quilt this.
the draft and construction done in puzzle size pieces of Nancy's challenge... mind boggling !
from floral panels found in Paducah.. gifted to Linda for Christmas.
much of the sewing for soldiers done at the Tip O Tx park is done with fabric precut for us and kitted up. I think I did 3 of these while there.
both the above were donated to the various sewing groups at the park.. sewing for kids, sewing for Ronald McDonald house, sewing for soldiers, and an orphanage.
Larry's quilt as the top was done.
Remy's quilt, assembled really fast as she arrived before the rest of us were ready ! 3 lbs and a fighter.. Doing wonderfully now.
This bright top was donated to one of the Good Deed groups at the park.
a purple braid top was done.
a blue braid top was done.
Henrys quilt top was done.
Loris quilt before mailing at Christmas 2014.
sent to Poland.
............ slightly different one sent to TX.
One of the many pre kitted quilt tops made for Ronald McDonald house in TX,, I think I did 6 of these while there.
skinny 1.5" strips .. later gifted to grand nephew.
Quikkie top of random Bricks done up for Good Deeds in TX.
Special request Bargello done up for Chicago person..... nuff said....
both the above were from a Quiltville free pattern and donated to the Good Deeds at RV park.
a braid quilt assembled at home right before we left for TX.
The new longarm machine ! I was searching for a treadle... loll... and came with this instead.. Yaeeee.. hopefully More and Bigger Better things will come from my GoodDeed project I started in 06.
Tim set it up 2 weeks before we left for TX... and it sat there just waiting for me to bring ALL these tops home.
the tally: 3 auction, 6 soldier, 3 personal soldiers, 11 family, 7 sent to Poland, 6 sent back to Tx. 12 donated while still in TX.
.,......................Now lets see what 2016 accomplishes !
