In keeping with my charity quilt goals (found here), I have made the February and March Military Veteran’s quilts…will have to wait on the April one as I have a bit of a backlog of other quilt projects waiting on me.
Military Veteran’s Quilt for February
Military Veteran’s Quilt #2
Free quilt patterns coming soon! The first quilt is already dedicated to a Marine Veteran…the second quilt has yet to be quilted. Do YOU make quilts for Military Veterans?
I wrote about my 2014 charity quilt goals here. I have now made three quilts for our church’s support of the Lutheran World Relief. I should have 12 of them done by the time the quilt ladies at church set aside two weeks at the beginning of each February to make and finish their quilts. Thus far, these three are what I have made:
LWR Quilt #1 for February 2014
LWR Quilt #2 for March 2014
LWR Quilt #3 for April 2014
Took the bull by the horns this month and got one of my three charity quilts completed…instead of waiting until the last minute as I did in March <blush>. Happy as a quilt bug in a quilted rug!
I officially declare that this very special quilt receives a DONE stamp (read more about it here and here)! The quilting is finished, the binding sewn on the front and whip-stitched to the back and the custom embroidered label is completed and hand-sewn on the back. The only thing left to do is to deliver it to the special lady with whom the quilt was made for!
“DDM” Memory Quilt
Thanks to Meloney Funk for quilting this quilt and making me the embroidery label.
How do you help keep memories alive?
I eluded to a tote bag swap I participated in here. Since then, I completed the tote bag I was supposed to make and also received the tote bag that someone else made for me. First, the finished product of the tote bag I made:
btw – I loved the strapping so much that I went out and purchased a few more yards of it, in different colors, for future tote bags.
And this is the tote bag that I received from my secret (okay, not so secret anymore) quilter:
This tote bag is HUGE – lots of room to use as a fabric or chocolate therapy day!
What a fun swap! I do not participate in quilt block swaps, but this tote bag swap was totally worth participating in!
I have enjoyed making t-shirt quilts for a few years…and they just keep getting better and better as I practice my mad quilting skills on them. For those of you who have never made a t-shirt quilt but want to…my best advice is to do some research with your favorite search engine to see what you can find. Tutorials are plentiful, just make sure you find one that makes sense to you and has a lot of positive comments with it.
These past two weeks, I have been working on a his and hers t-shirt quilt. The husband belonged to a fraternity and the wife belonged to a sorority when they met in college. Now that they are married, the bride’s mom asked me to make a t-shirt quilt that would put both the bride and groom’s Greek-dom together in one quilt.
The t-shirts they sent me for the groom were simple enough – they wanted all of his t-shirts used, fronts and backs.
The bride sent me a HUGE box of t-shirts (and even some sweatshirts) and we had to cull out a number of them so we had even numbers for his side and her side. Below is how we conducted the culling process. First, we laid out ALL of the wife’s t-shirts and photographed them:
Next, the wife sent me a list of the ones she wanted included…so that her numbers matched his numbers. After we pulled her choices out of the box, I then sent her another email with the following photograph, just to make sure we had the correct t-shirts that she wanted:
She emailed me to let me know we’d mixed one up, but otherwise, I was good to go and could start fussy cutting the fronts of the shirts!
We are still quite a ways out from beginning to end…but, the process is just as fun for me now as it was with the first t-shirt quilt I made!