Remember me posting this photo of a finished quilt top I had made for a very special (local) friend?
This is made from my friend’s mom’s pajamas that she wore as dementia ravaged her brain and life. My lovely quilter, Meloney, has finished quilting the quilt and I cannot wait to get my hands on this beautiful creation and finish it! Here are some photos Meloney shared with me:
I think this is a beauty! Thanks Meloney!
For the past few years, I have donated fabric from my own stash as well as from others, to our quilt ladies at our home church, for their Lutheran World Relief (LWR) quilt-a-thon that happens each February. The results of those ladies and their quilts completed is absolutely amazing!
That being said, I decided that if I feel good enough, I will make one LWR quilt a month. My personal goal is to make one LWR quilt, one Military Veteran’s quilt and one Quilted Lovie each month – interspersed with whatever other quilts I am working on. This is my February LWR quilt:
Do YOU quilt for charity?
Choosing fabric from my stash to match a Jelly’s roll that found its way into my shopping cart last week. Putting together some birthday gifts for a special person. Her favorite color is blue so this Jelly and the accompanying fabric should give her something to do when she’s stuck inside because of the weather!
Is it called re-gifting when I give someone a special gift from my stash?
I have slowly getting a tote bag ready for a tote bag swap I joined in one of the Facebook groups I belong to. The only requirements are that it be at least 14″ wide. The coordinator of the swap asked each of the swap members what colors they would like. She used that single parameter to choose what colors we were to make our tote bags for each secret recipient.
Let me interject here that the colors I was given were completely out of my comfort zone and I did not have at least one of the fabrics that I was given. Off I go to the quilt shop last year and picked up a fat quarter of the fabric color my secret tote bag recipient requested…and I found a really cool braided handle to put with my tote bag. Except when I got the lovely handle out to get ready to put it on the tote bag, I realized it was WAY too thick to not only sew through…I was also afraid that it would be something I was uncomfortable putting on a gifted project because of its thickness.
Off to the craft store today, to find a bit more fabric for the inside of the tote bag because I did not have any of that color in my stash, and to look for a better option for the tote bag handles. I found success in both the interior fabric and the handles!
And as I was making the tote bag, I made darned sure I had reinforced ALL of the seams. If you are going to have a tote bag that is at least 14″ wide, it would most likely be used to carry heavier things and I wanted to be sure that the tote bag can stand up to that.
I have enjoyed this secret swap project…and now we wait to find out who our secret tote bag swapper is so I can send her the tote bag with her chosen colors!
I stepped into our church yesterday to view the fruits of the labor of the wonderful church ladies who made 116 quilts for Lutheran World Relief. You may remember how excited they were when I delivered a boatload of fabric to them. I cannot tell how many quilts were made from the fabrics that were donated by the quilters I know…but, there is pure quilted beauty in the display of their efforts before they ship the quilts off. Behold…
