Quilts For Kids

Here are a couple more Quilts For Kids that I made. I taught a class to the volunteers on making this quilt. The pattern is from Mary Johnson, called Twisted Happy Blocks.

 Cute novelty fabrics and coordinating fabrics make for some very colorful quilts.

 Just a meander for the quilting and cotton batting.

 I have tons of this fabric, so it's on the back of both of them and the binding also.

Here's a close up of the machine stitched binding. The hospital would rather have the bindings done by machine than by hand, so I used this decorative stitch and it works our great.

Binding Week

Mostly bindings happening here this week. Getting all those PhD's finished at the retreat gave me the motivation to move some "quilted and waiting on bindings" to the finished pile.

I worked on the hand stitching of this one at the retreat. It's now done and checked off my UFO list.

This one is the twin to one that I assembled at the retreat. I applied and hand stitched the binding this week. It just needs a label before it is gifted.

This one is a Quilts For Kids and the strips were 3.5" and there were only 17 or 18 strips, which makes it within the 40-50" requirements for our local Quilts for Kids Chapter. They require stitching the binding on the machine, so I stitched it with a zig-zag for durability.

This is a little NICU quilt for Old Tippe Quilt Guild and it's 30" square. I'm hand stitching it, but I may give someone a call to see if that's ok.

 Here is another Quilts For Kids strip quilt that Karen and I assembled at guild Wednesday evening.

That's all so far. I'll be back working on Mabel tomorrow morning.
Tonight I'm going on a bus with my company to the Indianapolis Indians game. Should be a fun night!

24 Hours For Me!

From Friday about 7 pm till Saturday about the same time, I spent time quilting some of the projects I had made. They aren't necessarily going to stay here, but I did make them.

First was the baby boy quilt for a co-workers son who is almost a year old. I'm a bad quilter, I know, but maybe he will appreciate it more, I don't know.

Raindrops panto, which is a free one, Hobbs 80/20 batting and white Omni thread.

Just look at this cute backing I found to give it a kid friendly look:

Second was this Quilts For Kids Sample strip quilt. I determined that 17 3.5" strips makes the right size.

Popcorn panto for this one and the next:

This is just a little NICU quilt with some leftovers:

Quilts For Kids

Last month at the Sew and Meet, I taught them how to make sudoku quilts. Cathy had packets of 4.5" squares and a completed Sudoku puzzle all made up to they just picked a packet and were ready to start sewing.

I worked on the brown batiks at the Sew and Meet. The red quilt was one I started at home and I had each step completed for demonstration purposes. So, when I got home after the sewing day it was easy to finish that one, too.

 They both have Popcorn panto and a gold Omni thread. The batting is one that I'm not fond of. I purchased a roll of seconds from Quilters Dream to use for charity quilting and it is very firm, like a heavy fleece. I imagine it would make a great wall hanging batting, but I don't get a lot of wall hanging charity projects.

There will be a Quilts For Kids Sew & Meet tomorrow, June 8th at Bethany Presbyterian Church from 9-4, if you're in the are and would like to join us.

Sudoku Quilts For Kids

Out Quilts For Kids Chapter held a Sew 'n Meet last Saturday and I taught the group how to make a Sudoku Quilt. Some quilters finished theirs and some took them home to complete.

Here is my sample, which has 5" squares.

I wanted a very neutral lap quilt. I used fat quarters and the remaining fabrics will be pieced together to add a 6-8" border.

This one was my demo quilt and I had a block partially assembled to show each step. These squares were 4", so I added an additional border. I finished assembling this at home Saturday evening.

This one I made with a kit of 4.5" squares that Cathy had precut. It's all batiks and I like it very much.

The Quilts For Kids quilts that are made through this group are taken to the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital in Indianapolis once a month. The size is 40-45" square. They try to make them small enough to fit on the width of fabric, so the backing doesn't need to be pieced.

Quilts For Kids

Last month I went to the sewing day for the Indiana Quilts For Kids and I made these two trip quilts.

I quilted them this week using Here Comes The sun panto, which I LOVE!, and used white Omni thread and one has Warm and Natural and one has Hobbs 80/20 batting.

I hope to get the binding on this evening so I can take them to tomorrow's sewing day.

If you are in the area and interested in sewing for this wonderful group, we will be at Bethany Presbyterian Church in the Fellowship Hall from 9-4. You don't have to bring a machine, but can if you want. There will be kits to choose from, cutting and ironing to be done if you don't want to sew.

All the quilts make through this group go to the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital in Indianapolis.

Quilts For Kids

I loaded these together and finished Peggy's Quilts for Kids the other day.



This one has the cutest fabrics and I used Square Spiral, white PermaCore and QD poly batting.



This one was a book panel that she cut apart and pieced. She did such a good job at creating an exciting layout. The panto is Heavy trucks, white PermaCore thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

Janet Came to Quilt

On Friday evening, Janet came over to quilt 4 Quilts For Kids. She had sewn the backings together and we pinned on the backing and she quilted all 4 of them, one right after the other.




She got pretty good at meandering and swirls by the last one.

Catching Up!

In the past few days I have finished 8 hanging kitchen towels for Julie....but, I didn't take a photo. Maybe you can take one Julie and send it to me.

I spent yesterday at Rita's house sewing. She is such a wonderful hostess and her craft room is the perfect place to gather to chat and sew. I made a little (12") Halloween wall hanging from the latest Love of Quilting magazine. I did the quilting and binding after I got home last night and hung it up right away.





I started my Fig Tree kit from Rossville Quilts, and have 9 blocks finished. The rest of the blocks are still in 4 pieces, so I have a bit of work to do on this one still.



I finished the binding on my 2 Quilts for Kids and they are in the washer now and will get sent back tomorrow. I tried a new binding on these and really like it. I used the fabric glue method of Sharon Schambers (I think). I have done this before and really like the method. The difference in this time was the decorative stitching I used. When I have done this before, I stitched in the ditch of the front. I wanted these bindings to be really secure because of the frequent washings these quilts will get.



Today I enjoyed lunch with Julie, Jim, Andrew and Elizabeth. What a treat that was. I gave Andrew his Thomas the Train engines that I got a great deal on and he was quite happy about them. Actually, there was one for him and one for Elizabeth, but I am not sure he will share and she actually is a bit young for them anyway.

Downy Quilts For Kids

A little over a week ago, I received my kit from Quilts for Kids. I assembled it right away and finally loaded and quilted it on Sunday.



I used a new panto that I won as a door prize at MQR. It was designed by Michelle Wyman and is called Ribbon Twirl. I think it is the perfect design for this quilt. I can imagine the little fairies in the fabrics twirling these ribbons around.

And the back:



I liked the panto so much that I loaded another quilt top that I made to donate to Quilts for Kids and used it for this one also.

Quilts For Kids

I'm not sure who's blog I read about this on, but I'm glad that I did.

Quilts For Kids has partnered with Downy to provide kits to make quilts. I ordered my free kit last week and received it in just a couple of days. The pattern was included and the squares and strips were already cut. Last night I started sewing it together and how cute is this?



They send the fabric for the quilt and you provide the batting and quilt it. They encourage you to send along another quilt made with your fabrics when you return the finished one from the kit. I put the borders on this one of mine last night and will be sending it after it's quilted and bound.