Cats in the Moonlight

I have a "large and in charge" (as my daughter calls him) black cat named Oliver.  He is 13 years old.  He likes to help me with my quilts, as you can see from the picture below.  When I went to see my sister in June, she had a new wall hanging on her wall in honor of her black cat who had passed away.  I loved the pattern so she shared it with me.  Here is my version of black cats in the moonlight.  I showed it to Oliver when I finished it, but he wasn't all that impressed......he just grumbled because I had disturbed his nap.

Florabunda!

This is one of the many free quilt patterns on Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville site.  I had this very large print fabric that I wanted to cut into small pieces to just show the colors in the fabric rather than the overall design, so I chose this pattern.  It is really an easy pattern to do....HOWEVER, I made it one of the more difficult ones I have done by NOT thinking about what I was doing.  Without going into a lot of detail, just let me say that if you change machines in the middle of sewing units together for a project, BE SURE to adjust your 1/4" seam allowance to be exactly the same on both machines.  TRUST me, this is very important.  I had to make a lot of adjustments and re-adjustments to get the smaller units to fit together as well as they did, so please don't look too closely at the squares that aren't quite square and the seams that don't match exactly as I would have liked. Needless to say, I won't make this mistake again any time soon!

                                                                     

Lazy Sunday Mystery

Yay!!! I finally have my Lazy Sunday quilt top assembled.  Lots of pinning, pinning, pinning, to get all the borders to fit as they should, especially after I decided to make mine a queen size and added two extra borders, one between the two very busy pieced borders and one on the outside.  But I am very happy with the result.  I am showing  Bonnie's also so that you can see where the differences lie.  I used red where she used pink and an earthy green where she used lime green.

And here's a picture showing the overall quilt (or at least most of it).  This was taken inside, whereas the one above was taken outside, so the colors look a little different.

And now I am anxiously awaiting fabric requirements for Bonnie's mystery quilt that we will be doing starting "Black Friday" (the day after Thanksgiving) and going through the first of the year.

Colter's Quilt

My granddaughter asked me a few months ago if I would make a quilt for her boyfriend.  I asked her what kind of quilt she wanted me to make.  She said Florida State.  I said, "WHAT?!"  We are a family of Crimson Tide fans.  But he likes Florida State......so okay, I guess I'll do it.  Here it is!  As my granddaughter said, "At least it's not Auburn." :-)!

Sarah Emily's Chevron Quilt

My granddaughter (beautiful Sarah Emily in the picture below) requested that I make her a chevron quilt.  I intended to take a picture before I gave it to her, but forgot.  But here's the one she posted on Facebook, along with her sweet comment.

 

My new chevron quilt! My grandmother is the best! Thank you Marsha!

It looks perfect in my room :)

More Youth Quilts

Youth Quilts

I've been quite busy since my last post.  I have gotten involved in a project that is spearheaded by the wife of the Governor of Alabama.  She is a quilter and they also have two adopted children.  It has long been a dream of hers to do something for the foster children in Alabama and she has started a project to provide quilts to the teen-age foster children who live in youth homes in Alabama.  So I have been busy using up scraps and stash fabrics that I have had on hand for several years.  To date, I have sent 13 quilts and have 5 more ready to quilt.  Here are a few samples.

I am having so much  fun trying new patterns, making up patterns, using up scraps and cleaning out my stash.