Whacky Ladies Quilt Bee- More Charity Quilts finished

Last night the Whacky Ladies met at Mary's house.  Several people brought the completed quilts that they started at our Sew-in Day in January.  It is so much fun to see these projects rolling in!

Irene tackled a hand-quilted patchwork Trip Around the World that we found in my friend Marcia's mother's stash.  It was too small to be used as a baby quilt, so she had to figure out how to add quilted borders.  Mary had the perfect fabric to make a border for the front side.

The back has a colorful map, so Irene devised a scrappy border in bright colors.

I think it turned out to be a delightful quilt!  This will be donated to the Capital Quilters' Guild Quilts for Kids programs.  These are donated to neo-natal intensive care nurseries, or sometimes other worthy causes.

Mary finished the frog fabric quilt that she started at the Sew-In.

How cute is that with those fun frogs leaping around?

At the meeting, Kathy brought a bag of fabrics donated by her church members to make charity quilts.  One of the "fabrics" was actually an indigo African dashiki-style shirt.  Mary cut it up and made this fabulous quilt.

I am honored to be part of such a talented and generous group of quilters!

More Charity Quilts from our Bee Sew-In

My bee, The Whacky Ladies, meets tonight, so I finished two more of the charity quilts that the ladies made at our sew-in meeting in January.

The first one is made from a kit that I put together with homespun, flannels, and a novelty fabric that has a camping theme. I just had to put leaves all over, including some pine branches, to represent the outdoors. This one is so soft and cozy, and would be appropriate for a man. It will go to one of our area rest homes for a wheelchair-bound resident.

The backing s also a soft flannel plaid, which shows up the quilting very nicely.

Although I often show the Quilts on Wheels projects because I am part of that committee, the Capital Quilters Guild also supports other charities. One of these is Quilts For Kids, whose recipients are babies in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care nurseries in area hospitals.

Here is a very soft and sweet Quilt for Kids project that Kathy sewed together. It reminds me of butter mints.

The colors are actually more pastel than the photo makes them appear. Even plain squares make a lovely patchwork quilt. On this one, I wanted to do something different, so I attempted another of the Line Dancing designs by Diana Phillips. Usually I use the line dancing, or continuous curve, techniques on much smaller blocks, but they looked cute on this one. The squares look like a puffy posy, and at the intersections there is sort of an orange peel design.I think the backing must have been an old pastel sheet.

Looking forward to being with my quilting buddies after being mostly snowed in all week!

Catching up on everything since Thursday is going to take more than one blog post. I'll start with the Whacky Ladies Bee sew-in at Quilts Like Crazy. We had a pretty good turnout for a summer meeting when several were away on vacation. We decided to make quilts for the charities sponsored by Capital Quilters Guild in Raleigh. We make quilts for senior citizens at rest homes, babies in neo-natal intensive care units, children of parents in child abuse education programs, and several other programs.

Our member Donna is a longarm quilter at the shop. She arranged for us to use the workshop area for sewing and cutting. It was very inspiring to see the beautiful quilts at the shop and all the gorgeous fabric to fondle.

That's Mary working at the end of the table.

Here are Joanne and Jean working at their machines.

Joanne, Carolyn, and Marilyn having fun at work on their quilt projects.In the foreground, you can see the instructions I wrote on pieces of poster board, along with samples of each step. I guess you can tell who was the old elementary school teacher.The shop not only provided us with space and a 15% discount on purchases---they made us lunch! Fabulous!

I was the first to arrive at the shop after Donna, but when I set up my machine, I noticed that I did not pack the power cord to my machine. So, a short trip back home to get it, and then I found out that my foot pedal had died. Bummer! I spent my day cutting up fabric to make kits for Quilts on Wheels. Then, to finish my day on a similar disorganized note, I left my Rowenta travel iron behind when I left.

We left for our mountain place on Thursday afternoon...more to come. I am having trouble manipulating my photographs on Blogger lately. They don't drag and drop easily any more. But we had a fabulous time and I am really tired this morning!