Take Two, They're Small

Our quilt guild is collecting Baby Bereavement Quilts for a local hospice.  These quilts are made in matching pairs.  One quilt is given to parents who suffer the loss of a baby before or after birth, while its mate stays with the baby...a small quilted bit of comfort at a very sad time in the life of a family.  Because these quilts are mainly designed for premature babies, they are very small, only 18-27 inches.  It almost takes longer to load them on the frame than it does to quilt them, so I got the idea to load them two at a time.  It worked like a charm...I had two quilts finished in the time it would take to quilt one!

Next Challenge

My art quilt group has another challenge due next month and I have no one to blame but myself if I have a difficult time with this one, because it was my turn to issue the challenge.  I decided that we would select a few scraps from each others scrap baskets, add one solid and make a quilt using the theme of "spring".  No special techniques just a simple theme using scraps.  Easy enough, right?  Hmmm...maybe not as easy as what I first thought!

Ruffles!

I was at a quilt show recently and one of the vendors had a huge basket of assorted ruffle yarns on display.  I chatted a bit with the lady who was demonstrating how easy it was to knit pretty boa style scarves and as soon as she mentioned that I could knit one in an hour or two I was sold!  I sure wish I had tried ruffle yarn before I got the bright idea of knitting "the ruffle scarf from hell" with lace weight yarn!

Silent Sunday

Leap Day Giveaway Win

It's been a good week for mail this week at my house!  Look at the lovely charm packs that I won from Vroomans' Quilts during the Leap Day Giveaway Blog Hop!  Moda Domestic Bliss is such a fun fabric line and the red solid charm squares match perfectly...now I just need to find the right quilt pattern to go with them.

Lucky Winner!

Brenda from Scraps and Strings held a giveaway not long ago and I was one of the lucky winners.  This wonderful zippy bag, an assortment of her very own hand dyed charm squares and a too cute tiny hand bound notebook were all waiting in my mailbox yesterday.  I just love it when the mailman brings me something besides bills!

Simple Math

I'm making progress on my Unruffled scarf and I do like how the pattern is working out, but I think I will do the math before starting my next knit project!  800 stitches x knit front and back of each stitch = 1600 stitches x 7 more rows = 11,200 stitches to go! (But who's counting?)

Silent Sunday

Let The Bidding Begin!

The March Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative Auction begins today!  Yes, the AAQI holds an online auction the first ten days of each month, but I like to think that this month is special because one of my quilts is being auctioned along with twenty-six other beautiful art quilts.  If you have never participated in an AAQI auction why not place a bid this month?  There are some wonderful quilts up for auction and every dollar raised brings us that much closer to finding a cure (or better treatment) for Alzheimer's Disease.