5' X 5' string quilt from plaids

This is a string quilt made from some of my plaids.  A string quilt is strips of fabric sewn to a foundation of paper or fabric.  If  you use paper, you use light weight paper like from an old phone book and it's just to give you a form for the square or rectangle block.  When the pieces are sewn, you square up the block then tear away the paper.  On this one I used light weight muslin and it was left on the quilt.  It made it heavy so I didn't quilt it with batting.  I used plaid fabric squares for the back.  Kinda like using plaids this way.

 

August 2019, three large and one small quilts

 A couple months ago I found a bag of strips of fabric, about 1 1/2" wide.  I cute the strips into 4 1/2" lengths, Squared them up to 4" to sew together and made these three large quilts, one mostly blue, one mostly pink and one just random pieces.  I didn't plan on it, but had to save the beautiful greenish-turquoise pieces for a small baby sized quilt.  I'm trying to think how to border the baby quilt but the large ones will stay without borders.  Someday soon I'll do a simple straight line quilting.

July, 2019 Two crib sized quilts

These two crib sized quilts I made, one for a newborn at church and one for the pregnancy center in town.  The pattern is called Double Triangle, I really like this pattern and plan to make several more.  It is easy, pretty, but time consuming.  I found the pattern on a website, called "Film in the Fridge".  

"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.