Trio of quilts

Have any of you ever posted and then your post disappeared the next day-----------that is what just happened to me----------------blogger must not feel like playing nice today!!!

So here are the pictures and names of my last three Project Linus quilts: "Spinning,"---more pinwheels which are fun to make--these look like they are spinning around and around!

The next one is "Blue I Spy." For some reason I have ended up with two boxes of I Spy fabrics and I even took the box and passed it around at Sit and Sew one day! It still grew more instead of less!!! Go figure! Have to make some more I Spy quilts, I guess!!

Last one I called "Camping at Night." The fabrics seem dark and some of them are--they all show camping and fishing and north woodsy kinds of things. Hope some little boy gets this one!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Two and Two More Equals More

Two more Project Linus quilts and a small wall hanging for me! The first picture is the houses wall hanging---it was a little kit that the LQS had for sale and I thought it was cute. Very easy way to put together the houses, so I was happy about that!

The second one is a PL quilt that I called "Raggedy Anne and Andy." It is a Yellow Brick Road and you can see the dolls if you look closely. The other print is in the same colors, but is of balloons. Very happy quilt!

The third one is called "The Flowers at Night" because the flower blocks are sashed with a dark green fabric that looks black in the picture. This was the second quilt pattern from M'Liss Hawley's Fat Quarters for Baby Quilts that is my challenge book for the year. Fun and easy to do.

Again the storms and rain have passed around us and today they are doing the same thing! We need a nice day long soaker rain, but hasn't happened yet! Maybe one of these days! Sure feel sorry for all the people getting the tornados and wind damage.

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Time for more Project Linus!

It always feels so good to do more Project Linus quilts!----I have 2 more to quilt---

The first one is called Ritzy Crackers-------I kept trying to see Ritz Crackers in there, but I think they are referring to the kind of crackers that you pop on New Year's Eve. Took me a long time to figure that one out!!!! And you get the info for free here!!!!! It took 2 charm packs that were identical and background fabric---really a fast and fun one to do. It is found at the

Moda Bakeshop---a very fun blog with lots of free patterns.

The second one is called Sleepytime Stars and is found a very bright and cheerful quilt. The stars are yellow and don't show up in the picture very well---sorry about that. I think next time I will use a darker color so they stand out better. This is from Black Cat Creations.

The third picture is of a varigated yarn afghan. I called it Pink Cotton Candy. These afghans are sure fun to do--------but I better hurry up and get the crocheting out of my system, because hotter weather is on it's way and I sure don't feel like crocheting them!!!!

Let quilting help you make someone smile.

Jan

Four Before the Week-End!

The first quilt I called Children Behave because the main fabric is children doing all kinds of kid things--even pouting babies in high chairs, but it is all in fun! It is a Yellow Brick Road.

The second quilt is The Classsics Two. Classic colors and a design called Cheaper by the Dozen that I made two quilts from one quilt kit.

The third quilt is the same pattern and I called it Classic Brights Two because there is another one almost like it using the Cheaper by the Dozen pattern, too. Fun pattern.

Last, but not least is the quilt pattern called Bricks and Stones. What a fun pattern to do and used lots of scraps.

The weather has turned so nice here, but along with it have come the pollen and itchy eyes and sneezes and coughs--------bet there are lots of others who suffer, too. Soon enough the hot weather will come and then maybe the pollen, etc will go away and then we will complain about the hot just like we complained about the cold----------LOL!!!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

A Flimsy and a Quilt

A flimsy and a quilt-----------sounds like a country western song!!!! LOL!!!


The flimsy is called Summer Breeze and is from the book "
Scrap Basket Surprises." You are probably tired of me talking about that book, but I sure do like it! I have made several of the patterns in it. The fabric is Kashmir IV and I love it! It is such peaceful, pretty fabric. Reminds of a soft, peaceful summer breeze, so the author named it well!

The quilt is one for Project Linus and is named "Braided Colors". It is from the book "Bundles of Fun." It is one that I challenged myself to make all the patterns in the book. I think there is still one more to quilt from that book and I will have them all done. Getting to the quilting has taken a long, long time! My helper has been unable to do any on the big machine because of his work commitments. So I have slowly been doing them on my Bernina---the bigger ones are a challenge! But I'll keep plodding along.


Been having true fall weather here and so it's nice to sit and sew on projects or crochet on an afghan. Yesterday, at our Sit N Sew group, we got to see lots of new things from Quilt Market. Such an array of such nice things! Saw a pattern I definitely want to do, but will have to save up my pennies for that! I need a new handwork pattern, since I finished my last one a couple of weeks ago.


Let quilting help you make someone smile!


Jan

More for Project Linus!

Here are three more for Project Linus.............they are "Ice Hockey," "Desert Nights," and "Tweet, Tweet." Desert Nights is made with a pattern called Gumbo Ya-Ya. It takes Fat Quarters and has three different blocks that you mix and match to make a quilt top. Very interesting and fun pattern. The other two are Yellow Brick Roads. I wanted to use up some of the Fat Quarters in the basket, but this didn't even make a small dent!!!! I need to stop buying and need to keep on sewing!! But it is nice to have extra fabric, isn't it?!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Piccadilly Baskets and Project Linus!

The first picture shows basket blocks for Piccadilly Baskets. They are 30's fabrics and colors for the embroidered flowers. They are lots of fun to do. I'm using the template method of applique, where you use starch around the edges of the applique on which you have left a 1/4" seam and you fold the seam under with a hot iron around the template---- I'm using my Clover mini iron (the one like a stick with a triangle at the end of it ((technical terms LOL!!))) That leaves a nice sharp edge to applique stitch by hand on.

Here are some more for Project Linus! Sally made the first one called Princess Crowns that I quilted and bound for her. The next one is called Blue Bento Box and is one of the Challenge To Myself quilts ---- it was a fun one to do if you kept your wits about you as you put it together!!!! The last one is called Acorn Farm--you can't probably see them, but there are pictures of emblems with cows on them that say Acorn Farm and the rest are things related to farming.

Now back to quilting and making baskets for Piccadilly Baskets.

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Project Linus Quilts Again!

Here are two more Project Linus quilts all ready to go! I still have quite a few to quilt! Won't get them done today because today is Sit and Sew day at the LQS. Always hopping with lots of things to do and see. With all the visiting we get done it's a wonder that any sewing gets done atall!! LOL! ths looking is free and that is wonderful! Always find something I would like to do and sometime am able to buy if I have saved up enough money!!!

The two quilts for PL are called Flame Cars and Blended Stars. Hard to see the stars, but the quilting helps bring them out alittle bit!

Hope this is a great quilting day for you!

Let qulting help you make someone smile!

Jan