Hands 2 Help

Here's my quilted Hands 2 Help quilt.

I chose Jacobean panto and Omni Khaki thread, and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

A closer look at the fabrics

I will be sending my quilt to Emily of Em's Scrap Bag (for the Happy Chemo quilts).

And the backing:

Design Wall Monday

The quilt that was on my design wall last week is finished, label and all.

Here it is all folded and ready to send on it's way.

Jeni and I worked on our 40th class reunion quilt last Friday evening and we got all the blocks made and on the design wall. We will work on it again tomorrow evening and hope to get the center together. It is really quite fun to work with someone....she cuts, I sew, she presses and gives back to me to sew again.

Design Wall Monday #2

What a difference a day makes, or even 13 hours.

This is what my design wall looks like now:

I took the red and black blocks down because I need to wait for Jeni to help and put up my Hands 2 Help challenge.
I decided to use a tutorial on JudyL's blog. It's one that she will be giving feather instructions for in June. I will go ahead and quilt it because it needs to be mailed by the end of the month.

I opted to have another quilter choose my fabric palette and I was partnered with Kathleen, who chose this as my palette:

We used Design Seeds as our inspiration for this challenge.

I'm a Winner!

When I signed up to participate in the Hands2Help Project, I was just thinking it would be a fun thing to do, and it certainly was. I had a great time working with Cassie's fabrics and happily sent in my quilt in plenty of time before the deadline. Here's a link to Sarah's blog where you can find all the quilts completed. Thank you to Sarah for coordinating this project. These quilts will brighten the lives of orphans in Romania, taken there and distributed by Judi and Clint Madsen of Green Fairy Quilts.



Many thanks to Sharon at Voormans Quilts for donating my prize, a Robert Kaufman "brights" solid roll-up! Maybe I can come up with something to make at Camp Tecumseh.

This was such a fun experience and I'll be sure to join next year, too.

Thanks again Sharon!!

H2H Update & Design Wall Monday

This is the status of my H2H quilt. I plan to finish it this week, adding some borders and doing the quilting.

A Good Mail Day!

First, I received my Hands 2 Help package from my partner Cassey. I love the fabrics and will spend some time this weekend figuring out what pattern to make.



Second, I received this cute little pack of Moda fabrics, for sending in my "Just One Star" block. How cute are these and I certainly wasn't expecting anything form them.



Third, I got my copy of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks and all I can say is WOW, there are some stunning blocks in there.



I really need to finish quilting Barb's Turning Twenty quilt, but I want to play with my new stuff :(

Design Wall Monday

Or lack thereof.....

There's nothing on my wall today as the latest quilt up there is now quilted and ready for binding.

My package for the Hands 2 Help Challenge is ready to be mailed out. We are to send 2 yards of fabric to our partner and make a 60" square quilt using those fabrics and some of our own, if needed. I'm looking forward to receiving my package so I can get started on my H2H quilt.



A couple weeks ago I had a giveaway on my blog, sponsoted by Quiltmaker and Jaybird Quilts. I asked visiters to tell me what color they might use to make the quilt. The winner, Kira, said orange, so I packaged up a few fat quarters for her to get started on an orange project.