I just realized that this one wasn't finished, but you'll still get the idea. Not sure if I have a photo of it finished or not but I'll look later. This quilt was made for our Kourageous Kids charity where some of our guild members re-create a drawing from a calendar fundraiser that Children's Hospital does every year called 'Balding for Dollars" to raise money for children with cancer. This was my 5th year participating in it and it went to a lovely little girl who had survived her battle and was very happy to receive the quilt.

This quilt was given to a niece for a wedding gift in July 2013. It's sort of a Christmas quilt, but I didn't use bright red and greens so hopefully it can be used more year round. The small pinwheels are actually 3D as they're folded and sewn down. Hope she liked it.

New Baby/Toddler quilts 2014

My 2 year old grandson needed a bit bigger quilt for his crib and since the weather was warmer it needed to not be too heavy. He loves Cat in the Hat so I made the top one for him using a Disappearing 9 patch pattern (nice and easy) and put some 'Cars' fabric on the back. Finished it with some free motion quilting.
The second one was all Minke fabric, so nice and soft, and I made it for a new great -nephew. He's also getting a wall-hanging that I'm just finishing now, but I wanted to send him something that they could use everyday first. I've done this several times now for new babies and the Moms seems to like them as they're soft, washable (polyester) and you can take them to the beach or in the car and then throw them in the wash. I did some free motion quilting on it, just to hold the layers together.

It's been a long time since my last post.....

I apologize for not keeping up with this blog, but life just seems to have gotten in the way for the past year. Besides babysitting 2 full days a week, I've been dealing with a 90 year old Mom that needed more care due to dementia and it was a long struggle to finally find her the care she needed. Things have now settled down, so I'm going to try and post some of the quilts I've done in the last year.