Graduation Season

There are several HS graduates in my life this year. Top of my list is my son, who requested Christopher Florence's Labyrinth Walk Quilt (pattern available many places including here). I finished the top last month, but now it is quilted and ready for his dorm bed. I used three different quilting designs, one for each colored area of the quilt.

I found this awesome Northcott triangle wave fabric for the backing several years ago, fortunately I had just enough.

My nephew will be attending Purdue University in the fall, so I used Purdue Boilermaker printed focal fabric in the center of each block. This pattern is Square Dance from Missouri Star. I finished the quilt with an all over swirl design with banana colored thread.

Finally, one of my son's very good friends will be attending Duke University in the fall. I was unable to find "Duke" fabric anywhere, so I purchased a printed chef's apron and cut it up for the focal fabric. Not the most economical way to buy fabric, but it was 100% cotton and it worked! Everything else came out of my stash, including some light blue for the backing. I thought I might have to go shopping, but when I started pulling blues out of my drawer, I was embarrassed to find I had more than enough for this quilt (and several more). The pattern is inspired by several jelly roll patterns I've seen, but since I was working with odd shaped Duke logos, the square blocks finished at 8" x 8", and the rectangle blocks finished in sizes ranging from 8" x 13" to 8" x 16". Some of the columns needed a little "fill-in" piece to even them out.

Linking up with other scrappy projects at Oh Scrap!

Hands2Help - Quilts On Their Way

I am participating in Hands2Help 2019 and mailed two quilts this morning.

This quilt came from my green scrap bin with lots of wonky rectangles and 4 dancing stars. I quilted with an edge-to-edge ripple-type design, and added a simple label. It is going to Quilty Hugs.

This second quilt was finished a while ago, but needed a good home. When I was the comfort quilt chair for our guild, I made lots of kits for guild members to finish. I sometimes saw fabrics that I just "had" to save a bit of, and collected a pile of favorites. I made these 8.5" cracker blocks out of those fabrics. I quilted several different designs in the light areas between the blocks, and quilted each of the cracker blocks with the same wishbone and loop design. The finished quilt is 75" x 93" and fits nicely on a full size bed, so I donated it to the Carolina Hurricane Quilt Project.

Fun pieced backings are my favorite!

Thank you to Sarah for organizing this great charity quilt drive! It's so fun to see the wonderful quilts everyone is making and donating to very worthy causes.