Comfort Quilts

Our guild is collecting some twin-size quilts to donate to a local homeless shelter and I just finished up these two quilts for the cause. I got to try my hand at long-arming for the first time on these comfort quilts - a guild friend let me try out her gammill. It was so fast and great fun to try all sorts of different swirls and motifs without inhibition and need to make it "perfect." I hope to try again sometime soon with some of my unfinished tops that have been aging for far too long.


Now that I look at this quilt, I'm not crazy about the purple squares, but I doubt the homeless person who uses it will complain.


I also started pulling fabrics for the center block of the spring fling round robin. I have lots of ideas, and it may take a few tries before I decide which to use!

Jumping In

I'm jumping into the blogging world. I've seen so many wonderful creations on other blogs, and I want to share some of my quilting and fabric creativity. I'm excited to join the Spring Fling Round Robin 2.


I haven't had many finished projects lately, but I hung a wonderful new quilt rack in my sewing room / guest room this afternoon. My father and I came up with the design, he did the woodworking, and the first quilt I'm trying out on the rack is a string-x I made a while back from quiltville. It is such a wonderful scrappy pattern!