Arrowheads for Shannon

A lightweight spring quilt for the other grandmother of my Grandson.  Made with a 1/8ths pack of 12 fabrics (fabric of the month club!) and some white on white that belonged to my mother, and was in her Irish Chain prize winning quilt she made for my niece Carrie many years ago.  At one time she wanted to add a larger border to her hand-quilted double bed sized quilt, and so bought yards and yards of the fabric.  The quilt was already finished and bound.... THAT sounded like a project!  She didn't remake it, my niece adores it as is, and I have been able to add my mother's fabric to important sentimental quilts over the years.

Gifted to Shannon

Acrobats

This small project (approx 20 inches square) was a little fun diversion with an hour of time in the sewing studio.  I picked up the leftover charms of 2 baby quilts made this year, and just put them together as half square triangles.  Then I did it again, making the quarter square patches.  Then I flipped through my quilt block calendar and found a block named ACROBAT that used up my scraps along with some other squares I had lying around.    I had one block left over, and into the orphan box it went to be included in a scrap quilt some day.

Landon's Baby Quilt

Baby quilts are among my very favorite things to make.  The size is perfect, and they are always exciting to give away.  Here is a quilt for the first child of a young friend I watched grow up. Congratulations!

Lena's Quilt

Several years ago my friend Sharon brought me a stack of HST's that she found when cleaning out her mother's things.  Sharon vaguely remembered her mother working on the blocks when she was a girl, the 1940's or 50's. She asked me could I put the random blocks together into some kind of memory quilt. This is what I came up with:

Lena had pretty much already constructed the 25-patch blocks, all fabrics and arrangements are original. I find is so charming!

NICU for March Of Dimes

Each year the NICU challenges the rest of the hospital to fund raise by participating in several events.  The money is raised for the March Of Dimes in their prevention of birth defects and prematurity. We march, we sell stuff, we host events.  This year, I was asked to make a quilt for a silent auction.

I picked a block that has always fascinated me and put together this treasure with around 20 jelly roll strips and 5 different grays. It's a generous sized lap quilt, filled with 100% cotton batting and quilted in a 2" overall grid.

Good Luck to the winner of this cozy quilt!

Update: The raffle was banned as "gambling," so I gifted this quilt to Fayza, my housekeeper.