Quilt for Foster Boys

My friend, A, and I pieced a larger than average quilt top together.  As she likes to say, some of the teenagers are rather big boys.  We want to make sure they get a quilt big enough to cover them, which is also nice to look at and cherishable.  My quilt group experience has been that most of the quilters are women.  Some of them do have sons and grandsons and sons-in-law, so masculine quilts show up occasionally.  Many quilters, like myself, just love quilting and do not require someone to give the quilt to as a reason to make one.   I had to pay special attention to the fabrics, so they would not be deemed too feminine.  Most of these fabrics were donated, by Phyllis O., to our quilt group for donation quilts.

We did use one of those three-yard quilt patterns, which was provided by our quilt group.  I doubled it up, so as to make it bigger; big enough to fit a twin-size bed at least.  I apologize for the darkness of the photo.  I did not notice until after the quilt was donated.  Too late!  It is a fun quilt, made with some care, and with good fabrics. 

Donated Quilt for Veteran's Day

One of the quilt groups, I belong to, donates red, white, and blue quilts on Veteran's Day each year.  We were a little short on turned in blocks this year, so I went into my RWB scrap stash and put together a quick, decent sized, quilt to be donated to a veteran.  I stitched in the ditch on my Husky and got it done in a week.  Go me!  At our Oct 6 meeting, I donated it.  There were three quilts donated to veterans through our contact with the school district.  It is nice to have the school kids do the donating.