Throwback Thursday! 100 Quilts For Kids!

Two baby quilts made with stripset bits leftover from quilts I made for my nieces approximately six years ago! Quilted with my Bernina 1020; 40wt thread in an all-over butterfly motif.

Butterfly Twins, 36" each

 

These will be donated this week to my local chapter of the Linus Project.

I hope that they find twin girls that can benefit from some cuddle-love!

Linking up today with 100 Quilts For Kids hosted by Quilts in the Queue!

 

And with Throwback Thursday at A Quarter Inch From the Edge!
 

Share a Finish Friday - Time Flies

I refer to this guy as, 'Time Flies'

These little hour glass squares were leftover after piecing my donation quilt from last year's 100 Quilt for Kids. I can't believe a year has gone by and it is time again to link up our donation quilts! Hosted this year by Heather of Quilts in the Queue , she has worked hard to obtain oodles of incentives! I thought about what to make and remembered all the odd scraps I had saved, dug them up, made some pinwheels, and finally arranged everything with some negative space.

(This pool was closed when I went for laps. It is still 90 degrees around here, but school has begun.
Is summer really over? What a shame!
I don't remember going to school in August...)

I wanted to play with the quilting a bit since I had all that space. The bubble-cables are a new pattern for me. I had sketched them in my notebook awhile back, from a library book by Angela Walters. I just visited her blog for the first time, and (wow!), noticed some beautiful paisley feathers she has been doing. I saved the link so I can return to check out her video tutorial!

This baby quilt is for Project Linus.
I thought Winnie the Pooh was perfect for the back.
And I found one more orphan patch...

I am pleased to announce that this quilty finish meets my August AYOLF goal (#49) and I can link up with Fiber of all Sorts Finishes Party!

Over the weekend, I will be visiting and linking up as well with Friday Finishes:

 

TGIFF, held this week at Ms. Midge,

 

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop, at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

 

Thank you so much for reading today, hope you have a terrific holiday weekend!

August Goals!

A quick post to share my goal quilt with Fiber of all Sort's linky party, A Lovely Year of Finishes!

This month, I plan to finish at least one quilt for the 100 Quilts for Kids campaign, hosted by Heather at Quilts in the Queue. Heather is determined to surpass 200 donated quilts this year and she has lined up a lot of support (great prizes!), quilts are already being linked up by quilter's donating to various charities of their choice.

I enjoy donating baby quilts for Project Linus. In anticipation of this year's event, I have already prepared a top to quilt, and named it 'Time Flies'. It is made of leftover patchwork, with spinners and hourglasses, and the quilt has some good negative space that I plan to use for at least one new-to-me FMQ pattern.

Winnie the Pooh will be perfect for the backing! He seems to be looking wonderously at a leaf...

Charity Quilt Finish - An Elephant March

 

This cute little baby quilt made it's way yesterday to Debbie, our local Chapter Coordinator for Project Linus. It was a pleasure meeting her, and I was surprised she was not yet aware of the quilt drive, 100 Quilts for Kids, hosted by Katie over at Swim, Bike, Quilt. Hopefully she will spread the word to quilter's who have already donated quilts and may not be aware of the fabulous giveaways they may be eligible for, just by linking their quilts for entry by the end of the month.

I was a bit humbled when I took a look at all the gorgeous quilts posted at the 100 Quilts for Kids Flickr Group! There are so many outstanding quilts posted by some very generous quilters!

This was a pretty quick quilt, and I am pleased with the finish. This was the second time I machine stitched the binding, and it went pretty well! I used 2.5" strip and stitched at 3/8" to the backside. When I flipped and the front down it was smooth sailing. Very little stitching was visible on the back when I finished, I pictured the worst of it in the 2nd photo here:

I still really prefer a hand finished binding, but as I get better with this technique, I can see great use for it, especially for baby quilts.
The backing is plain by today's standards, but I made a unique label that can be left as is, or someone may choose to write a name or message on it.

I had some problem with thread breakage when blanket stitching this down, switched to a 65 needle and muscled on, trying not to let the perfectionist in me talk negatively, and hoped no one would really notice. Then I signed it with a red Staedtler permanent ink pen and heat set it. I have used this pen once before, on a Christmas quilt, but for some reason it did get just a bit blurry when I washed and dried the finished quilt. Maybe if I had used a hotter iron, or longer press, it may have taken better, but I no longer recommend this pen(!).

Linking up with other Friday finishes with Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? , and with Missy Mac Creations for TGIFF!