My postal carrier sure got a workout this week. Kat sent me a giant boxed filled with miscellaneous items that weren't appropriate for Covered in Love. Plus, occasionally, blocks from my block drive accidently go her way. Ooops! I am sure there will be items I will need to send to her in the future. We work together a lot!
(BTW - if you haven't heard, Kat has started her block drives up again.)
I also received a box of finished quilts from Sandra in the mail. Check out this scrappy goodness!
It measures about 48 x 60".
Here is the back of the quilt. What a great way to make the back as fun as the front.
She also sent this scrappy triangle quilt. This quilt also measures about 48" x 60". I have always wanted to try making these scrappy blocks. Hmmm...maybe it can be a future block drive.
On the back of the quilt is this stripe print. It was hard to get a good photo. Sandra also added a scrappy binding that really framed up this quilt beautifully. I fell in love with her bindings - she does them all by machine and uses a fun decorative stitch when she is stitching down the front. I have never been very successful with this, so I am a bit jealous of her skill.
I was out of Veteran quilts to send in my March hospital delivery, so I checked my shelf and found quite a few RWB string blocks. I quickly made a few more blocks and made this quilt. I used my "hashtag" inner border - you can make the border whatever width you want and there is no quilt math necessary. I had a bunch of red that was already cut to 2.5" so that is what I went with.
Suzanne sent in this really fun swirly backing.
And I just used more of the red from the front for the binding.
This quilt measures 54" x 64".
On the shelf, I also saw the leftover blocks from last year's block drive. I played around with them and figured out how to make another quilt from them. Some of these blocks came in after the block drive ended. I sure appreciated them now!
I had purchased some Americana backings from Connecting Threads last year. It has tiny beige stars on it. I continued with the star motif and used a blue star print for the binding.
This quilt measures 54" x 66".
I usually send three Veteran quilts in each delivery to the hospital but I don't know if I will get a third quilt done in time. I will just have to send in four next time.
If you haven't heard yet, we are repeating last year's veteran block drive. So soon I will have lots of Veteran quilts in stock. I really enjoyed making quilts from these blocks and I think many of you enjoyed making these blocks. You can read more about the block drive here.
Thanks so much for all of your support!
6 comments:
What special deliveries this week! I did love that fun back. It is like having two quilts in one! My favorite is the string quilt with the hash tag border. . .you are amazing!
Lovely quilts parade. It is a fun back; I'll have to remember that one. The "Hashtag String" is also calling my name. I have so many strings; I really have to invest some time in those bins. The Churn Dash leftovers turned into a lovely quilt. I love that one. Awesome work, ladies! ;^)
Lots of fun scrappy quilts this week. Your elves are very talented. Happy stitching this week.
I love that you were able to put the left over and late blocks from last year's drive into a quilt already. I need to dig around in my stash and see what I can get made for you. :)
I can't tell but probably some of those late blocks were mine. I'm about to do that again if I don't get a package to you soon!! XOXO I really love this bunch of quilts. I can't imagine how fun it would be to have a block request be scrappy triangles!!! The colors, the fun...you would have a blast pulling those together!
Love them all - but you know that Churn dash one just sings to me!!
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