Making A Difference with Quilts at Christmas

In the past two weeks, so much has happened with our quilt project for victims of Hurricane Helene. For the distribution of the quilts received I have concentrated on the areas hardest hit that have not been the focus of other groups. Boxes of quilts arrived over the course of a couple of weeks and …

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Quick Charity Quilt

Last week I had a fun day sewing with a couple of friends. My Sweet Babboo was going to work on a car project with a friend of his, whose wife is one of my sewing buddies. She invited another quilt guild member to join us and we spent a lovely afternoon sewing and chatting …

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Working on Safelight Quilts

Last week, I did some blocks for the Safelight quilts project that my guild's local area is coordinating. I used a couple of pretty prints, so I could do blocks with florals and whites. Making a lot of half square triangles at once means allows the prints to be mixed between blocks. I wanted to …

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Quilting the Bento Box Quilt

This past week, I loaded up a charity quilt and began the quilting on it. My friend said to use whatever I wanted for thread color and pantograph pattern. Auditioning threads, I decided on a light golden taupe with a pantograph that has curves. I showed this quilt on Sunday, and didn't know the name …

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Nancy’s Quilt and Cyber Monday

The blocks on this pretty quilt were completed by a friend who recently passed away after a long battle with ovarian cancer.  Nancy was one of the bravest women I have ever known. I am not sure many could endure what she did, the way she did, with grace and a determination to live her …

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Quilting for Foster Care

A friend's quilting group is making a couple of quilts for a local foster care facility, and she asked me to quilt one of them. The quilts are oversize twins, so having them longarm quilted was the groups first choice. Luckily we have a group of longarmers in the area willing to do these larger …

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Using Panels for Quick Finishes

In our local quilt club, our charity quilting chair brought a number of preprinted panels to the last meeting.  She asked for us to simply quilt the panels for our outreach to children in need.  I know I like to do more piecing when doing any quilting, but there is an urgent need right now …

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