Donated Tops now Quilts

Now that I have some help from some local longarm quilters, I am finally completing some of the quilt tops that were donated.

This amazing sampler was donated by Joni quite some time ago.  I did quilt this one - I wanted to see up close all the fun blocks she made. I think Joni makes a block from fabrics leftover from each quilt she makes - and then turns those into a quilt like this one.  I identified blocks that had fabrics from other tops she sent.

For the backing, I picked out this lovely floral sent in by Jean.

This quilt is about 75" square.

Janet was riding her bike past my house and I made her stop to take some of these photos.  This sweet quilt sent in by Becky is made from all polka dot prints.

Local quilter Cindy did the quilting - she did a lovely freehand loop and heart design.

The polka dot fabric on the back was sent in by Karyn.  It couldn't be any more perfect!

This quilt is about 40" square.

This one is fit for a princess!  This quilt top traveled a bit - Judy sent it to Kat but Kat thought it was more appropriate for Many Hands and Many Hearts so it came my way.  

Local longarmer Laura quilted it up for me.  She quilted it with some big flowers.

Judy also sent in this pieced backing.  Someone is going to love this pink and purple quilt!

This one measures about 55 x 70".

I love this pretty fall colored quilt (sorry, the tag got lost with the donors name).  The colors are so rich.

This one was also quilted by Laura.

The same day I received the quilt top, I opened up a package from Suzanne to find this lovely green backing.

This quilt measures 48" x 60".

And finally, check out this amazing big star sent in by Joni.  Poor Janet could barely hold it up.  

As you can see, it is quilt large - almost 80"square - so I have been keeping my eye out for the perfect backing.

I finally decided to just use a teal grunge out of my stash and some purple sent in by Karen.

I decided to quilt this one myself.

Not a bad showing!  It is nice to see these sent in quilt tops finally getting finished.  I appreciate the patience of those sending them in and the assistance from my local quilters helping to get them across the finish line.

I have more to share on Friday so we will see you then!

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Oh Scrap! : Flannel

Sadly, I didn’t get any of my scrappy HSTs this week. I went to go see if I could find any big gray scraps and I got sidetracked by Mount Flannel.

I have received a lot of flannel bits and I have just been piling them on a table in my sewing room. 

I guess I was in the mood to deal with a few of them.

I pulled out a lot of the smaller chunks and decided to cut them up into 6.5” squares.

I then sewed them up into this cozy quilt top. I probably won’t be quilting this top until the Fall but it was nice to make some progress on the flannel scrap front. I still have enough flannel scraps to make another three or four tops but they will have to wait for another day.

Happy Scrappy!

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Churn Dash Quilts #6 thru #8

I don't know why this block drive seems to be taking its time to get going.  I have lots of blocks but other things seem to continually get in the way.

Quilt #6 is this lovely sashed layout of just large 12" blocks.  There wasn't enough of the red sashing material to sash around the outside.  I still like how it turned out.

I think all of these blocks and the red sashing material all came from Nann.

This quilt measures 54 x 68".

When the front blocks don't have a lot of patriotic fabrics in them, I like to add a patriotic backing.

On this one, I put the blocks in rows and added a middle section of some orphan blocks I received.  To make the flag blocks show up better, I used a print as the background.

Karen sent in this amazing big blue starred fabric.  It wasn't quite wide enough so I added in a red.

This quilt measures 48 x 68".

I sored out a stack of blocks that had a lot of turquoise shades in them. 

 I think this one screams summertime!

I also added in some small churn dash blocks for a bit of fun.

A few of the blocks on the front have light houses in their centers so I thought this lighthouse fabric would be perfect on the back.  To make it big enough I added in some red and some watermelon fabric.

This quilt measures 60 x 72".

If you still have some Churn Dash blocks to send in, please do it soon.  It is almost time to announce the next block drive.  I hope to make the sample blocks this weekend.  I will give you a hint - we will be working with autumn colors.

Everyone have a wonderful weekend!

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One More Stix and Happy Quilt #72

My focus this week was on finishing some of the Churn Dash quilts.  I will share those on Friday.  Today are some miscellaneous quilts I don't want you to miss.

First up is this cute construction quilt.  There are so many adorable prints in these happy blocks.

My good friend Jeanne sewed the blocks together and local quilter Cindy quilted this one up for me.

All I had to do was sew on the binding.

Karen sent in this fun backing.  It really finished off the quilt nicely.

This quilt measures 40 x 48"

Remember these blocks from a previous block drive?  I came across the last of the blocks and decided to put them all in one last quilt.  We might do this block again in the future, but it will be years away.   I think I had to make two more blocks to have enough for this quilt.

The front is a little chaotic, so I put a nice peaceful backing on it.  This lovely gray and tan floral came from Dorothy.

This quilt measures 54" x 72".

Speaking of Stix blocks, Wendy sent me these two photos of some Stix Quilts she made as donation quilts for her guild.  They went to a camp for seriously ill children.  I love to hear that quilters are using their blocks to donate to local organizations too.

That is all I have today.  Tomorrow, I pick up a few quilts from a local quilter and I should have the binding completed on three Churn Dash quilts by the end of the week.

Many Hands and Many Hearts make light work!

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Oh Scrap! : More HSTs

Yay!  I wasn't sure if I was going to find the time to play with scraps this week.  

But I decided dusting is overrated!

I made ten more of the scrappy 6.5" HSTs for my scrappy quilt.

Here is where we are now.  I really had to dig deep to find enough of these royal blue scraps.  Next up will be some purple for the corners.  But first I need to find some big chunks of more gray scraps.

I am really pleased with how this is progressing!

What did you do with your scraps this week?

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• You can link up your blog post (not your homepage please) or Instagram photo from the past week that features your use of scraps.
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Churn Dash Quilt #5

 I was really hoping to have a second quilt to share today but I didn't get the binding sewn on in time.  My dog felt he needed to be snuggled more than he was getting.

I still had a few more of the big blue starred squares that were sent to me.  So I made a second quilt framing the smaller churn dashes with some red fabric and alternating them with the blue squares. 

 I really like how this layout looks.

This quilt measures 60 x 70"

Suzanne sent this blue and cream backing already sewn together.  That can be so helpful as I am pulling fabric for these quilt tops.  

I do want to mention that the batting for about half of these Veteran block drive quilts was sent to me by a generous quilter.  It was amazing to see a bolt of batting arrive on my porch!

I am hoping next week I can hit these churn dash quilts hard.  I have a big stack of blocks I need to sew up and there are some more tops to quilt.

If you have blocks to still send in, I would appreciate it if you can do it soon.

It is hard to believe but the next block drive will be announced the end of this month!

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Mid Week Finishes

Here we go!

Catching up a bit on some finished quilts.  I had to go back and make sure all the finished quilts had labels sewn onto them.  I think I am now all caught up.

This school themed quilt is the 70th quilt made from the Happy Block quilt drive.  This top was put together by a friend of mine and then Laura did a great job quilting it up.  Laura even sewed on the binding.  I just had to add the label!

Two fun prints on the back side.  This quilt measure 56" x 64".

Moving on to Happy quilt #71 - this one is all about love.  All of the blocks have fun heart prints.  Then rainbows are tucked in a few of the columns to create the block stagger.  The same local friend sewed up this quilt top.

Of course we had to put a couple heart prints on the back.  A red binding framed this one up nicely.  This quilt measures 40 x 48".

This cute scrappy quilt top was sent in by Holly some time ago. It has been continuously bumped by other quilts.  I decided one evening to just get it done.

A fun tiger print on the back. 

This quilt is 38" square.

And finally, this one is for all the Star Wars fans.  Karen sent in this fun quilt top.

This quilt measures about 38" x 48".

Karen also sent in this amazing planet fabric for the backing.  It is so very colorful!

I had a black and gray striped binding that I was hoping would work.  It was just a bit short, so I just added in a bit solid black.

Hopefully, I will have some Churn Dash quilts to share on Friday.  I have one done but the others need a binding.  Guess I had better get sewing!

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All of these quilts will be donated through Many hands and Many Hearts.

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