Renewal Quilt is Complete!

Here are a couple of photos of the completed quilt. One of the whole quilt and a close up that shows the quilting and signatures.

Design Wall Monday

This first quilt is for the spring retreat challenge. The challenge fabric is the bird print I fussy cut for the center of the diamonds. I have to find more background fabric so I can finish it the way I want. If I can't, I'll just put a border on it and be done.

This next photo is my bed with my recently completed purple quilt. I made this quilt with the corners cut out to accomodate the posts. Quilts hang so much better this way I think I'll do it from now on. I am very happy with the way this one turned out.

More Finishes

Here's photos of some more quilt tops I finished in the last two weeks. This one I call Oklahoma Stars. It was an experiment with the Road to Oklahoma block but you can't really see the stars because I inadvertenly made the wrong squares dark. I may try this pattern again. I have moved this project to the Ready to be Quilted list.


I call this one cow puzzle. The only thing this needed was the final border, which I think really brings out the puzzle pieces. Now I need to dig up some cow fabric for the back.


I started this quilt years ago but I thought it was boring so I never finished it. I think it's pre-2007. I had a lot of triangles already cut out so I went ahead and finished the blocks and put on a border. I also made a back out of some zebra print flannel a fellow guild member gave me. I still think it's boring but I'm sure some kid will love it. It's headed for the VOM children's home.


And finally, the Hungry Caterpillar. My daughter (age 26 btw) asked me to make this for her about 3 years ago. She has fond memories of the story. So I snuck it out of the house and finished it as a Christmas surprise. She loves it.


I have not been at my day job for the last 16 days and here's what I accomplished:
put borders on Cow Puzzle
blocks and borders on African Animals
quilted Red & White Irish Chain
quilted Hungry Caterpillar
quilted 3 customer quilts
binding on a donation quilt
put together 2008 2nd Saturday blocks
quilted Completely Dotty
put together Broken Dishes blocks
put borders on Funny Monsters
worked on Arctic applique
organized UFOs for 2011 Challenge
pieced backs for several donation quilts

UFO Progress

Here's Completely Dotty, quilted and bound. I only need to add a label and give it as a gift, possibly tonight. I finished another quilt but I can't show it as it is also a gift.

This next one is a sample for a class Tamara is teaching at the LQS. I'm including photos here because I'm delivering it to the store and Tamara won't see it right away. I also included a closeup of the quilting.

Here are the five quilts I dropped off at the San Antonio Childcare Center Tuesday. The director was thrilled. Thanks to the Valley Girls for help making them.