“Secret Garden Trapunto Quilt Pattern” by Joann L. from Craft Passion
“Flower Garden Pillow” by Kellie from Don’t Look Now
“Cutie Pie” by Melissa Corry from Happy Quilting
I have a Chevron quilt block, quilt block. Does that make any sense? 🙂
Every time I think of the modern quilter’s love of using Chevron’s in quilts, all I see in my mind is this:
Am I the only one who is having visions of Charlie Brown’s shirt when looking at quilts and quilt projects that call for Chevrons?
My mother-in-law has really embraced Swedish weaving. She can enjoy a day or evening of watching television shows while she weaves her beautiful afghans. She occasionally quilts, occasionally sews or repairs clothes…but always seems to have an afghan going whenever she wants to take a break.
This past year, all four of our children were blessed with her Swedish weaving afghans. They are pretty lucky to have a mom who has made all of them a quilt or two and a grandma who has made them all personalized pillows (last year) and then Swedish woven afghans this year.
Don’t wait until the last minute to make your holiday gifts! Many quilt shops are selling off their 2014 holiday quilt fabric at great discounts to make room for their 2015 stock. Here’s a quick and easy – and delightful! – wall hanging project sure to cool you down.
“Snow Days Snowman Quilt” from BOMquilts.com
Sometime in November 2014, one of my daughter’s friend’s mother asked if I would make a t-shirt quilt for her graduating daughter (whom I’ll call T). I was still having side effects from the failed MS therapy so was not ready to commit to doing anything that required a timeline. I had so much to do already and no gumption to do any of it. I did not relay this info to the mother because I had no idea when I would come out from my funk and be rearing to quilt again. I basically ignored the question.
In January 2015, I found out our friends were coming near where we live and wanted to get together for lunch. They also wanted to see the t-shirt quilt I was making for their daughter and son-in-law. Except, all I’d done on that quilt was stabilize the t-shirts and cut them to-size. And buy the fabric. I had to work fast and furious, over the course of a week, to get that quilt top finished. And I did it!
A week or two later, I found a paper sack on my cutting table. I knew I didn’t put it there so started asking around the house. Finally, my daughter said her friend’s mom sent the bag home with her, to give to me. As I peered inside, I saw t-shirts. This was the t-shirt quilt I ignored. UGH
Another week or two later, I decided to take a look at what T’s mom sent. As I pulled out the t-shirts, they weren’t what I expected. T has been in the one-act play group at school and I expected her play t-shirts. What I got, instead, were camp t-shirts. Summer camp t-shirts. Church summer camp t-shirts. I pulled them out of the bag, not paying attention to anything on them except for the years. I had t-shirts from the summer of 2007 through 2014.
And once again, I did nothing more with them.
Until I realized I didn’t have a whole lot of time to finish the quilt top and it was way past time when T’s mom could hire someone else to make the t-shirt quilt.
I start going through the shirts and really paying attention to them because I need to figure out what will and won’t work for the quilt and the sizes they need to be.
While reading the shirts, I came across this on a shirt:
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now have in the flesh, I have by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20
This is what I call a “God Moment” in my life. You see, I was confirmed at the end of my ninth-grade school year and each of the confirmands in my grade had to choose a Bible verse that they felt suited them. Then we had to memorize it and recite it to the congregation during our confirmation church service. THIS was my Bible verse. I can still recite this verse from memory – and its meaning continues to speak to me, about me.
There was absolutely no doubt in my mind, after seeing this verse on one of those t-shirts, that I was meant to make this t-shirt quilt for T.