Floral Fantasy

I finished Beverly's quilt, Floral Fantasy, and brought it to her birthday party today, but didn't get to stay long enough to watch her open it!  I hope she likes it.  I took a couple of pictures today, but neither of them is very good.  Here's the best.

I also have been making hot pan holders to use some of my scraps.  I gave one to Kristen and Bridgette today, and I have a couple more that need binding.  I have to work at the BOE tomorrow, so I'm going to take one of the hot pan holders that needs binding with me.  We have plenty of time, usually, to work on puzzles or read or whatever.  I might as well make the time useful!  Maybe I can even get the binding on another one tonight.

August 2011

I've been busy - mostly because my quilt room is so messy that I can barely walk into it.  So I want to make some scrap quilts to use up some of the fabric that I bought when I first started quilting.  Since I didn't know what kinds of quilts I wanted to make, I would buy yardage of any fabric I liked.  Consequently, I have lots of fabrics that are stand-alone pieces (pieces without any other fabric that coordinate with it.)

I bought a book that shows several scrap quilts and started making one of them.  Unfortunately, it's not using nearly as much fabric as I'd hoped.  And it's going to be smaller than I like, so I'm going to lengthen it and make it one row wider.  That's a project on hold right now.

Also, I told Kristen I'd help her with some of the kits she has bought over the years.

So, I brought home one of Kristen's kits and made the quilt - a sweet baby quilt.  She had bought so much extra fabric that I was able to made a 24" x 24" baby doll or sleeping baby quilt with the scraps.  I also made a pillowcase and a smaller baby doll quilt - and still have some scraps left!

I made a four-patch Halloween quilt for Bridgette - and a pillowcase to match!

I made Patrick a pillowcase out of fireman fabric.

And, since Beverly Lawley's (Beverly was mom's caregiver during her last year - and she was fantastic!) 60th birthday is this weekend, I decided I'd better finish the quilt that I'm making for her.  It's the Floral Fantasy quilt that was a Saturday Sampler at Tiny Stitches the year that mom died.  Beverly saw me sewing one of the blocks and told me how much she liked it - so, of course, this was the quilt for her!  Last night I made the binding and sewed it on.  Today, I've started the hand stitching.  It needs to be done by this weekend so I can give it to her at her birthday party.  I'll post a picture when it's finished.