"The Finisher" 6 baby quilts finished for a friend.

 Call me "the Finisher".  These six quilts made by a friend for her grandbabies needed the bindings to finish them off but she hadn't done them.  I love to finish off quilts and offered to do these for her.  She said "yes", and I did it.  Really cute quilts.

2019 baby quilt finished for sister Barbara

My sister and her husband came to visit.  She had taken a class and made the center part of this quilt, the hard part.  But it had been sitting at her house for some years and wanted to know if I wanted to finish it.  I put on the pink border and the blue border and then quilted it and put the binding on in three days.  It is a really cute quilt.  The background material has pink and blue flowers.

2019 baby quilt, for infants at church

I love making quilts and enjoy giving them away.  I made two of these quilts, one a little bigger than the other.  They are made from "cheater" fabric, which means the material was printed to look like it's pieced.  The back is this pretty yellow with a narrow blue stripe, quilted with the edge finished with a strip of binding. 

5'x5' quilts for Emergency Vehicles in town.

Someone at quilt guild had a stack of squares cut from Laura Senter's stash.  I added some to make this 5' x 5' quilt to be used by the ambulances or  police cars in town.  They wrap victims in them, and then some are given to them.  This one wildly colorful.

5' x 5' quilt for rescue vehicles

This quilt is five feet by five feet to be used by rescue vehicles in town.  It's made from small pieces of fabric from my scrap basket. 

New quilt from HST's

This small quilt will go to a newborn at church.  For the back, at bottom, I sewed material together that was all the same except for the color.  Then I made the top from more HST's.  I really enjoy making HST's, I don't know why.  The man who cleaned and serviced my machine said, it must get quite hot, especially on the bars that move the needle and presser foot up and down.  Quilts like these probably are why.

  

2019, lap quilts for Wrap a Smile.

There's a charity I found called Wrap-a-Smile in one of my quilting magazines.  A woman was on a trip with doctors who operate on children with facial deformaties, like Cleft palate.  She found that these children were then sent home covered only in paper, like newspaper.  She decided it would be a good thing to send quilts along with the doctors to give the little patients.  Since they've gotten thousands of quilts to give to children in places like India, Africa and all over the world.  They prefer quilts about 40" x 60" and colorful with as little white as possible.  Some places consider white a sign of death.