Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Catching Up
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Progress
Sunday, August 17, 2025
What A Week
Monday, August 11, 2025
Not Quite Finished
and I have taken way too much time working on borders. I got bogged down on how to make this one fit, and on how to turn the corners, but I finally got it done.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Poppy Blocks for Kerrville
Good morning friends. I’ve been busy sewing poppy blocks.
One of our local quilt shops is doing “Hugs from Texas”. Last year she collected quilts for North Carolina after hurricane Helene. I donated three finished quilts, and I’m sure others donated many more than that. The quilt shop owner (Connie) rented a u-haul truck and drove the quilts to North Carolina.
This year, we had the flooding in Kerrville, Texas. It happened just last month, and it was very emotional for me because of the deaths at Camp Mystic. My granddaughter went there and was planning to apply this year to be a counselor but missed the deadline. Anyway, Connie has assembled a team of volunteers to make quilts for the Kerrville residents who have lost everything in the floods. She is making videos of the blocks and quilts that are being sent to her. Here is the latest one.
The poppy blocks are 12”, and not difficult at all. If you want to make some, message me, and I will send you the instructions. You can send finished blocks (or quilts or quilt tops) to me, and I will deliver them to Connie.
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Collage Quilting
A few weeks ago, some quilt guild members taught a collage quilt class to the area 4H kids. There were about 15 of them there, and it was a three day class. I think nine of them finished their collages, and a few of us instructors took them home to quilt. I took three of them, and I got them quilted yesterday. 😀
Aren’t these great?!
Here’s more detail of each one. A cow:
I got them trimmed, and I’ll pass them off to another guild member who will bind them. These will be in our September quilt show. I hope it will inspire the kids to pursue quilting as a craft.
I’ve been working on borders for the quilt I’m making for the Refugio church. I came home early to make some more pinwheels, but I noticed the house looked pretty bad, so I started cleaning instead. Today, I will finish the cleaning and then make pinwheels.