Category Archives: Quilt Gifts

Testing 123, Testing

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I am making a quilt for a virtual friend’s daughter who graduates from high school this year.  Once we picked out the fabrics and they were Mom-approved by my virtual friend Donna, I was anxious to start on this quilt.

Let me make it clear – this quilt will be ‘defined’ by the quilting.  Blocks and blocks will take care of the piecing but I want Meloney’s quilting to stand out.  I want the quilting to shine.  Here are the rows that I put together this evening:

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Since this is a quick and easy pattern, I should be able to finish it in a few days!

Quilting Scarves?

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My MIL gave my middle daughter these two bags of scarves:

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I have been too busy to open them up and see what is actually there, but in my spare time (cough, choke), I want to dive into the bags and see what I can see.  I may just make a scarf quilt using muslin as the foundation.

Have any of YOU made a quilt out of scarves?  If so, please share your experiences with me!

Flashback Tuesday: Crop Circles

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There are many times I find, where the fabric is lovely on a quilt but the long-arm quilting “defines” the quilt and makes it even more special.  This is the case with this quilt image below. It is a basic layer cake (10″ squares of fabric) quilt…but, when my quilter put her magical spin on it, it totally made the quilt.  This was a quilt for my niece when she graduated from high school on 5/30/2009.  She has always been more involved in outside sports and fun than inside and she is not a girly-girl.  Hence, I chose this fabric because all of the outdoor colors are in the fabrics.  But, I could NOT have asked for a better long-arm quilt pattern than the crop circles – that totally screamed my niece (to me) and my quilter had no clue about her!

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As I continue to say, I am a quilt designer and piecer, I consider myself advanced in those areas.  I leave the quilting up to my quilter as she always knows her craft better than I could ever imagine!

Flashback Tuesday: Prayer Shawl

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In 2009, we lost a very special lady.  But, our loss is His gain!

She was a nun earlier in life, and left the order to marry a pastor.  Pastor Jim and Ms. Stone were very special people to us.  My husband attended a men’s Bible study that Pastor Stone led for a few years.  Ms. Stone was battling dementia.

I still recall the Easter that they joined with our family.  Those memories are cherished.

But, this flashback is about the prayer shawl I made for Pastor Stone when his wife passed away.  I have not put the instructions to it up.  But, it is very simple to make with three cross blocks and two Jacob’s Ladder blocks.

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Since Mrs. Stone was cremated, Pastor Stone wanted me to put the shawl in the narthex of our church with Mrs. Stone’s photos so folks attending the service would notice the photos because of the bright Texas Hill Country fabrics.

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I have made a number of these prayer shawls and they are special to everyone who has received one.  I am just grateful that folks enjoy my quilted gifts to them.

UFO DONE: Very Special Quilt Momento

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A few years ago, I asked a local friend if she would like me to make a quilt out of her dearly departed Mom’s clothes.  She did, and after a month or so, she sent me a box of her mom’s things.

But, doggone it, my MS got in the way of doing anything quilt-related.  I felt guilty about not being able to get to her quilt but there was just no way I could handle it – I was an MS mess and didn’t sew ANY quilts for about two years.

Nearly all of the clothes in the box from my friend were pajamas her mom had worn for at least the past five (or more) years…as her mother battled dementia.

A few weeks ago, I *finally* felt like I could tackle that quilt, and took the squares I had already cut out, pressing them to a stabilizer and cut them to size.

Last weekend, I was able to put the rows together:

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This weekend, I was able to sew the rows together and add the borders:

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And while I was at it, I also got the binding ready to go, once the quilt is quilted by my friend Meloney!

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Always feels good to get a project done that has been waiting on me.  Have YOU found and finished a UFO lately?