Baby quilt in progress

 Hope to raw edge applique before newborn baby starts school.  Lol

30 Quilts in 30 Days Days 11, 12

No quilting the past couple of days.  I did get some work done on the stash that is being sent to El Salvador.

The project was to make 100 baby/small size quilts.  It got downsized to making sets of fronts and backs to send for the women there to finish for local needs.

Fronts were matched with backs in sets of 5 per hanger.  For this shipment only 75 quilt kits would fit in the duffel bag.  I have more fabric and misc items to send down.  I will either fill another duffel bag or wait until another group from Church is headed that way.

Most of these sets are good sides facing together.  There are a lot of pretty fabrics.  The ladies at the church in La Palma give sewing classes.  These small quilt kits can be used for practice.  They also give the women gifts they can make for others.

I make the duffel bags from any fabrics I can find that are sturdy.  The airlines have size and weight restrictions for the checked baggage.  My bags will pass the size requirements and will hold 50 pounds of donated items.  I am  hoping to make a dozen bags a year for Mission trips.  I purpose to fill at least one with usable fabrics for the ladies sewing group.  We also ship sewing machines, when we have cargo containers going down.

I have made five duffel bags so far this year have 8 more cut out ready to sew when needed.

Over 50 quilt kits-  fronts and backs.  We do not use batting b/c the temperatures are so warm

 Mary got me interested in playing with jean pockets.  She is looking to make items for a craft show, I wanted to play and see how creative I could get.  I have no desire to mass produce.  The OWL pin cushion is a work in progress.  I am not sure if I want to hand sew and do other embellishments or just glue the eyes and wings on and be done.

This small pocket was perfect size to make a scissor holder.  The back side has another pocket that I put a bobbin of thread and several needles.  Now I have a ready for the road sewing kit if I need it.

 This is the practice book cover.  My grandson Andrew called dibs.  He likes the long pocket b/c it hold pencils.  I made these to fit the composition notebooks that were on sale at Walmart after back to school sale.

 Ben wanted a larger pocket on his.

 These really are a lot of fun to make.  Breely has a 1 st grade teacher that loves frogs.  I found an old frog print and embellished a pocket with yo-yo's  I still need to attatch everything to the pocket.



Dawn told me one time that she liked red tulips.  I just had to make her a notebook cover with this old print I had.  I added a butterfly because I love butterflies and I love her.  The butterfly is not sewn at the top so this  has two pockets in one gift!

Another baby quilt- green and gray!

The soon to be New Mom asked for greens and grays as her choice for colors for the baby quilt.
This piece was found in my stash.  I love the green and gray!

A 2 inch border of green check on a white background and a 6 inch border of dark grey were added to the print to make a good size back.  If you like to speculate as to why the borders look wavy, that would be b/c it is not ironed, or squared up yet.  I kinda just let it fall to the floor so I could take a picture.

The small tumbler die for the GO was used to cut scraps.  Special thanks to the other gals for getting this cut out at quilt group.  I was supposed to kit them up for the  to sew- my bad.  I was only going to do a couple of rows and hand it off, but these are so easy I just kept going.  I sew my 'row' together in a loop and then cut either a green or gray in half, that gives me a straight edge on the sides.  When I get the length I want I sew the top row to the bottom and cut one row in half.  That gives me a 1/2 block across the top and bottom to match the sides.

I had enough of the dark gray left to do a small border on this top.  I should then be able to  quilt it all together in time for the baby shower in a few weeks.

Go Circles- another Baby Quilt

My Niece, Krystal is getting a new Nephew in Jan.2013.  She came over today to borrow my GO Baby and the Circle die.  I can't wait to see what she cuts out.

U-Tube Inspiration Video Here.

She purchased a focus print that we hope to use on the back.  I bordered a background piece to add the circles too.  We plan to use it for the front.

I can see this style as being a fun way to use up scraps or focus fabrics!

Krystal has been playing with the placement of the die cut circles.    Plans are to get together at the end of the week to work on quilting this future keepsake!

Baby Willis gets a flannel Quilt....

Good friend Mary M finished the baby quilt for my soon to be new little grand-daughter.

A while back Mary was over at my house helping me sort through material. We found a small box of flannel and picked out some to send to Erin.

This group just begged to go home with her to be used for a baby gift.

Mary added the purple but the rest was from stash.

The back is as lovely as the front. The bird is from a stencil I picked up at the Chicago Show.

The only thing that will make this quilt look better is a precious little baby girl wrapped up in it.

One MORE- up to FOUR!

Karlee picked the border color for this little top.

She actually picked all the block borders too.

I think she is going to be a little quilter.

It is so much fun to have her 'help' me in the sewing room.

Today she helped pick up threads and scraps that ended up on the floor.

Karlee is 2 1/2 and a joy to be around. So far she is our only grand-daughter. I tease her that she has to learn to sew b/c grandma is giving her all the stash!

She laughs and says: But grandma, I'm just a little girl- give it to my momma. Too funny.