Cspoonquilt

 Got the borders put on this top over the weekend.  Measures 87" square.  This is one in a batch of quilts I hope to complete for the next quilt Give-Away for CZU fire victims.  I love these fabrics.  So soft and homey feeling.  I think it will make a good donation. I hope you are all having wonderful Winter Holidays even with Covid adjustments! Take care! cw

 I have been trolling through my (to many to count) UFOs for another project that I can easily finish for a CZU donation and I settled on this stack of Blocks.  I figured if I put every other block as a solid I only had to make 3 more blocks to make it Queen size!  And they looked like a fun bunch of Blocks! These are actually 'Thank You' blocks I received for serving on my Local Guild Board a couple of years ago.   But they have been sitting unattended for awhile.... I thought this was the perfect time to get them put together and do a good deed. Well I'm off to the races, that is;  Grocery shopping in the Holiday Season, ugh! Have a great weekend! Take care, cw

  I made this potholder with my granddaughter at the end of Oct.  I thought the finger loom would be a good activity for her.  I remember making these kind of potholders when I was about her age (7). We used strips of old cut up t-shirts rather than the commercial loops. It made it a little more difficult but Ari got through more than half of the weaving before she asked for help to finish it. . I found this at the flea market a couple of years ago.  What a hoot! The old metal frames are definitely the best. It was so much fun making the first one, when I got home from Indiana I made some more for Holiday gifts. I really think they make the best potholder?! And how many ways are there to use t-shirt scraps left over from t-shirt quilts?! Well,  big pieces do make excellent rags... Yesterday I found this at our local craft shop. Klutz really does make nice craft kits / games of all kinds.  This one included a loom, some pretty colored cotton loops and this i...

 My friend Helen who is one of the coordinators of the distribution day for CZU quilts sent me this picture.  You can't see it because the fellow is wearing a mask but he's smiling from ear to ear!  Sandy H. over at  My Material Creations was helping that day and she assisted this fellow in looking for a quilt to take home.  Sandy said when they got to the table where this quilt was he went straight to it!   He said 'it really made his day!'  This quilt almost did not make it to the party!  It was donated to our local guild Flea Market a couple of years ago.  It's mostly all wool, tied, with a fairly worn flannel backing.  It's very heavy.  I had to wash it about 3 times to get the musty smell out of it.   The last hour of our Flea Market everything is FREE (less to cleanup that way).  I was strolling around the Market that year to see what was left and there was this quilt.  Not wanting it to go away for f...

 Back in Oct.  I shared the saga of this quilt top. ( read about it here )  I decided to make it bigger and this is the final result.  It's one of three quilts I hope to finish to donate to the CZU quilt giveaway for people who lost their homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains fires in Aug. This top is currently on the quilt frame it measures about 88" square.  It's about half quilted.  I hope to finish it today or tomorrow. I started this next quilt as a break from making all those green piano keys.  All the heart blocks were from my Orphan Block stash. It turned out to be so much fun I finished it first and got it quilted and now it's being bound. This is the biggest top I've quilted in a long time;  97" square! That was a real work out! I pieced the backing.  Talk about a Stash Buster!  6 Yards worth!! The third quilt is a top I started several years ago. It staled out when I decided to do some applique on the outer borders! HAHAHA!  ...