Sunday, June 9, 2019

Some finishes!

May was a pretty productive sew month for me, but since I've been traveling I haven't had much  chance to post pix.

I always have tops waiting around to be quilted.  I decided I needed to work on that waiting list!.

This one is big 58" x 68"  that's the dimension that Hospice requests for the campers at Camp Erin.  A program for kids who have family members who've been touched by Cancer.

The flannel patches were a Flea Market find.  I Love those 'Pre-cuts'!

I backed this quilt with a plaid fleece.  thought it made a good match with the front.
This quilt is 36" x 48"  The size requested for the Wheel Chair Bound Vets.  The fabrics in this quilt were from the leftovers of a layer Cake from one of those Civil War lines.
The blocks of this last quilt were made by the students of a 5th grade class at Green Acres Elementary School.  I was the Science/ Garden teacher there for awhile many years ago  I still get requests from friends there to quilt the occasional quilt project.
Hand work like sewing is a challenge for most of these kids.  Most of them have no experience sewing, at all!
  My friend Jackie (also a former teacher at Green Acres)  helped supervise the kids and put the top together. Jackie said it was quite a trick getting everything to line up.
But it's really a charming quilt if you don't mind a few shaved off points!
I think the kids agreed to donate it to Jacob's Heart.
It was fun to quilt!
Lots of fun prints and color combinations!
I pieced the back together with this colorful sarong and the orange and aqua fabs.
That's the last of that orange fabric.  I got a bunch of it from the Flea Market and I've used it in 3 different kid's quilts recently.  I love all the colors in that sarong!
It's another sunny day here,  better go out and get some weeds pulled!
Happy Sunday!
cheers, CW


4 comments:

  1. Great quilts! It’s fun to see a quilt made by kids. Who cares about less than perfect points? Not I, said the little red hen! Good on you getting all this quilting done.

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  2. Great quilts, Claire - all of them! Of course that C.W. one is right up my ally, and gives me an idea for what to do with some pre-cuts of my own. You won't mind if I steal your idea, will you? ;-)

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  3. What a great collection of quilts. I like less than perfect points and I really like that kids are being taught to sew.

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  4. Thanks to you all! Points Schmoints (to borrow a phrase from a Bridge book) They really don't need to be perfect!

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