Silent Sunday

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