Cspoonquilt

After the Quilt Show I went back to the Fair grounds the next day to turn in the keys and pick up some boxes of old magazines that did not sell at the Flea Market to take to the recycle.     There were also about a dozen   garbage bags filled mostly with fabric that did not sell.  These were set out for the Fairgrounds people to dispose of.   But b eing the scrounger I am, I took about half of these bags to sort. I was curious  to see what was left and what might still be useful.   Maybe there are better ways to pre-sort our donations and give certain items away rather than taking up space in the Flea Market booth. I sorted out two boxes of decent garment yardage that the Grey Bears thrift store, were happy to take.   And another box of cotton fabric that I think the members of the Guild would be happy to adopt.   And then there were a whole lot of scraps.   Scraps are kind of a hard sell for most shoppers. ...

 I have not really posted much from my local Guild show (end of Feb.)  I was so tired after the Show I just could not get myself organized enough to look at my pictures.   But I was strumming through my recent photos yesterday and noticed this quilt.  The blocks date back to a BOM I organized back in 2015 (see  here  ) It's always a delight to see a Finish from a BOM that I had a hand in.  It helps me feel like I'm doing something right!  Lise did a fabulous job of arranging the blocks.  The colors and shadows dance around the top and make those scrappy blocks look so elegant! Brava, Lise! Here's another "Why Quilt's" Challenge. Ain't it the Truth?!   Quilting does make me Happy! Sorry I did not get the label on this one.  I really like the quilting too!   This was my only submission besides the challenge quilt (see Feb. 25th post).   I really stretched myself on the quilting in this one....

One of my dearest friends from college invited me to her daughter's is Baby Shower.   Well of course I had to make a quilt!  Claire did not want standard baby colors but she is a great lover of animals so I used that as a starting point to design her baby's quilt. It started like this.... But that just seemed toooo busy.   I think I was working to hard at including as many animals as I could so I pared it down a little and repeated a few things and I think it was a little more together. I spent a small fortune on these cute fabrics but now I have a lot left over for more kid quilts which will be fun! Here are some of the fabs...   The cat fab had to go in the center since the mother to be has a cat. She also loves dogs so there's several kinds of cat and dog fabs... Of course I had to get in a few nontraditional fabs in there...                             ...