Donation quilt top

 Time is fast approaching when this is due, better get hustling. This looks different than it did on my design wall due to my errors transferring from the wall to the sawing machine!  But I’m not fiddling with it any more…

 

Progress is happening

I finished the apron, it is huge but still works, maybe I’m not wearing it correctly!

Next is the quilt for donation to Sub for Santa.  I think it is ugly but these are what the quilt shop gave me

On the knitting front it’s always slower going than is wanted,  here is the blanket so far. 6 inches!

 

 Seems like I prefer to do three things at once. I downloaded a free apron pattern as a way to ease back into sewing and quilting. Then a local quilt shop gave away a set of strips to be made into a quilt for Sub for Santa and due November 25th. Then I got interested in the quilt jacket. So all 3 projects are under way.    AnOther thing going on is knitting every day for cancer (3 projects going on).   Today is cloudy and truthfully I don’t feel like doing anything 😀!  But my goal is to finish as much as possible before Bonnie Hunters mystery at the end of November ..Creamie likes the pinks and purples for the mystery  plus she likes the sun streaming in the window 

Quilted jacket

 I don’t know how I got started on this quilted jacket. My niece was making one for her mother, My sister, and I thought it was so cute.  The idea is from the Laundry Basket blog.  Meanwhile, my sister and I used to quilt together. We made so many of Bonnie hunters mysteries. I made mine full size and she made hers half or 3/4. She’s the math major and I couldn’t figure out the math so I always made the full size. Well, my sister got dementia and no longer quilts so all of her fabric and unfinished quilt tops went to her daughter who is also a quilter.  Barbara, her daughter sent me one of my sisters quilt tops which just happened to be on Ringo Lake. So I followed the instructions cut up the quilt top and I am now quilting the pieces getting ready to put it together. You cut up a sweatshirt to use as a pattern and also it is the batting. Here are some photos. I about cried cutting up my sister’s work, however there are pieces left over to make hot pads so nothing goes to waste

 One quilted front

This is the one my niece made

Here are the fronts

Laying it out

This is the lining, bad lighting, it’s a light turquoise color as seen in the first photo

I’m baaackkk…..

 After a semi retirement, I decided I wanted to get back to quilting.  I have an apron cut out, I signed up for a challenge at a quilt shop to make a strip quilt - they provided the strips, and a 3 rd project, making a jacket out of one of my sisters quilt tops.  On top of that I of course want to do Bonnie hunters mystery quilt.  I missed the last two years and I miss the excitement doing it brought. But there’s one problem:  I gave away my stash and all my other fabric. So I’m slowly purchasing fabric here and there.. love the daily deal at. Missouri star company and the flash sale at fat quarter shop. Now that Bonnie revealed the colors for the mystery quilt, I’m looking to buy those colors.

Here’s a look at the quilted jacket I’m attempting to do, from a pattern on laundry basket quilts , I need to take in the shoulders and make the side seams smaller so the fronts will meet in the center  it has sleeves of course, this is just pinned together .  The quilt top is On Ringo Lake a Bonnie hunter mystery  from 2009 I think, that my sister made but never quilted  search this site to see my On Ringo Lake quilt!

Now it’s June 2025

 I looked back on my blog to see when I started the last 2 children’s quilts, it was march 2024, and I just finished quilting and finishing them. It’s interesting to me that in that time I had forgotten how to use the automatic needle threader, how to wind the bobbin and where reverse was!  But it all came back….since I donated the last of my fabric it looks like I might be at the end of my quilting career, sad!  The last thing is to give my Bernina to my daughter…here are my last two finishes

 

Still in a slump

 Can’t seem to get motivated to sew and as time drags on so does my lack of ambition, sad!