QUILTY HAPPENINGS
Posted By drsao on July 16, 2008
DEAR JANE
So far I have made six blocks for my Dear Jane Quilt…..but when you consider that I am making TWO DEAR JANE QUILTS at once I have made twelve blocks. The RED AND WHITE Dear Jane represents my PRACTICE blocks. I make the red and white blocks first before I make the REAL blocks in the civil war repro fabrics. The IRONY of it all is that my RED AND WHITE BLOCKS always turn out to look better than the real deal. I can’t really figure out why either……..maybe I will get better with time. This is my first attempt at needle turn applique and I am woefully “UNSKILLED” at this….I can’t believe I am even putting pictures up! 🙂
First is A-7 Dad’s Plaids
And second is E-1 Aunt Exie’s Phlox. I love the names of the blocks.
Quilter’s Corners Quilt
To cheer myself up and convince myself that I am not a total QUILTING DORK – I made the July Block of the Quilter’s Corners Block of the Month Quilt. Whew, that made me feel better!
And since I needed A LOT of CHEERING UP after those Dear Jane blocks, I made my second July BOM a different way…..
I don’t like to follow directions so I just had to make my second block MY OWN WAY….LOL.
AUGUST LOG CABIN ONLINE EXCHANGE BLOCKS
And since I needed to be SERIOUSLY cheered up after making those DEAR JANE blocks I made my 12 AUGUST blocks for the online decentralized log cabin block online swap exchange.
I felt much better!
HEAT BUDDIES – HEAT SWEET
Yesterday I made my mother’s birthday present – it took me ALL DAY. I used her favorite color – orange – and I think she will like it. I used 8 layers of fabric and stuffed it with rice and cinnamon. So all she has to do is stick it in the microwave – and voila – a Heat Sweet!
The 8 layers include 4 layers of 100% cotton – 2 layers of cotton batting and 2 layers of cotton t-shirt material. That should be ample protection from HOT RICE! 🙂
Her second HEAT SWEET HEAT BUDDY is LARGER – and it is pieced and channel quilted – it is actually a quilt disguised as a HEAT BUDDY ( the quilting is probably why it took me all day to make these two!)
I had to make TWO because I figured she might want to share with my daddy.
The back is exactly like the front.
OH DEAR – my mother reads my blog – so there goes the birthday surprise. Oh well, she is a good actress, she can just PRETEND to be surprised on her birthday July 30!
What a great idea (the heat sweet)…I just might have to make one or two of those! Lucky mom!