Colorful Twisting Turning Twenty

Phyllis Oneal has been quilting most of my recent quilts for me.  She does a great job.  We are keeping busy, indeed, during this time of social distancing and staying at home due to the Corona Virus.  This is the third Twisting Turning Twenty I have made.  I did not put the outer border on it, as I believe I did not cut one when I cut all the blocks, which was a few years back.  It makes it a few inches smaller than the Purple TTT.  I took it to the garden at work, this morning, and pinned it to the chicken wire around a fruit tree to get a nice photo.  The weather is so beautiful today and the garden is a lovely place to visit during times like these.  Also, happy Earth Day.  I hear Earth Day is fifty years old today.

This is the back of the colorful twisting turning twenty quilt.  Shannan gave me the blue piece that has little white chicks on it, and I scrounged through my colorful stash (and was brave) and decided to use the psychedelic fabric I have been hording for awhile.  I used no new fabrics on this quilt.

Purple Twisting Turning Twenty

Greetings!  During this unique time of anxiousness, I am endeavoring to keep my blog postings a little fresh.  I have two good friends, at work, who wanted face masks.  I made my first two face masks for them.  Then they agreed to hold up my quilt, so I could take a photo of it.  I definitely had their arm muscles taxed for a couple of minutes, since I am fussy about my quilt photos.  Sandy and Deb did a great job!  Thank you!

This is my purple twisting turning twenty quilt.  It is my 4th UFO I have completed this year.  I am east bound and down on these UFOs.  In fact, if I keep it up, I may run out of check marks!

Donation Quilts

I have completed two donation quilts.  My friend, Shannan, gave me some odd left over blocks from a quilt project she did.  They are 5"X5" squares of cooking bears, bees, rabbits, carrots, and ducks.  I added a couple of light fabrics to the mix and whipped up a cute child's quilt to donate.  I did a stitch in the ditch on my home sewing machine.  It turned out soft and adorable.

Then, I completed our quilt groups BoM (block of the month) and made an extra one.  I was looking through the pile of unfinished work on my buffet and found some card trick blocks that our quilt group had done last year.  They donated them for a donation quilt and, of course, yours truly ended up with them.  I decided I wanted this done and out of my house!  So, I added my BoM to the mix (top center block) and tried to figure out how to put these blocks together in a quilt.  The trouble with getting blocks from 5 or 6 other quilters is they never turn out to be the same size.  The smallest one was 11.5 inches instead of 12.5 inches, so I placed it on the back.  As it turns out, I really like the back of this quilt.  I don't care for the front so much, but my daughter does, so statistically someone else will like it, too.  It is fun and it is done.  I just need to turn these quilts in, so they can be donated.

This is the card trick quilt; to be donated

Back of card trick quilt.  I like the back better than the front. But that is just me.

I go to work, I go home. I go to work, I go home.

     I go to work. I go home. I work at a medical center and have been deemed essential personnel.  At home, I have been quilting!  I have been a busy little bee!  Of my nine UFO's on my list to complete in 2020, I have four completed and number five is at the long-arm quilter's house.  In addition to that, I have completed two donation quilts, one art quilt, and have been working with "the girls" on some doll quilts.  Now, I am doing two things: working on Aunt Karen's quilt and gearing up to make masks.  My daughter, who resides in another state, has her e-mail blocked with over 5000 e-mails, so she cannot login and view the fab photos I just e-mailed her today.  I am posting the photos I took of Ebony, that she cannot access in her Yahoo e-mail. 

    When I am working on quilt backs and I put a large piece of fabric on my ironing surface (which is on the top of a book case), she stops whatever she is doing and runs over and goes between my fabric and the ironing board (bookcase).  She plops her butt down, usually on my foot, and then spreads herself out causing the fabric to want to come down on her, but I have it under my iron on top the ironing board.  Well, this time the fabric was not draped on the floor, just barely off the floor, so I took a few seconds to grab my camera and take a couple photos.

Ebony's backside sticking out from under the fabric I am trying to press.

Ebony looking like "What is your face doing down here by me and my fabric?"