Charity Quilt 2013

Once again, I've been working on a quilt to be donated to raise money for a special needs school.  This year, though, between having a long commute and working on a few other projects, I decided that I needed to keep it simple.

It took me a while just to find the inspiration fabric.  I eventually found it in a fabric store (Factory Mill Outlet) in Colorado Springs.  Then, I needed to figure out the design.  A trip to a quilt store in Pueblo triggered the design. 

I was soon sketching it out. Then, cutting it out.

I skipped a step, unfortunately.

And, unfortunately, it was a pretty important step: measuring.

I had cut up most of the inspiration fabric before realizing that I didn't have enough of the fabric to finish the quilt.  Because I hadn't bought the fabric locally and I didn't have the time for a run down to Colorado Springs, I had a couple of alternatives:  buy more fabric online, give up, or modify the design.  The design modification won out.

Here are a couple of photos of the quilt top, which is still in progress.

This first photo shows a close up of the inspiration fabric.

And, here is a photo of the top:

It isn't quite finished yet.  I want to add a border around the entire quilt, possibly up to 8 inches all the way around.  And, yes, the cream inserts are the re-design.

Back Again

I'm not really sure why I stopped posting for a while.  I was definitely still working on projects the past few months.

One of the projects that I was working on was finishing up some of the lap quilts for the veterans program.  The lap quilts were distributed to the veterans at the Winter Sports clinic in March.  Here are five of the finished lap quilts.

Two of these I started before I stopped posting.  The other three were ones that my husband designed.  All in all, I'm pretty pleased with the way that they turned out.

This lap quilt was a Stack-in-Whack quilt that another quilter had started.  It was pretty obvious that she had intended for it to be a full-sized quilt.  But, she never had a chance to finish it.  It was a pleasure to be able to finish two more squares, and then turn the start into something that could be used to keep someone warm.

It is also a reminder to me that life is short...