Getting Up Close to My Quilting - Meandering with a Twist

Another beautiful customer's quilt!  I love 30's reproduction fabrics and I love pinwheel quilts.

All information about my quilting and my customer's quilt is at the end of this post.... Enjoy the photos!

This is a customer's quilt.  It was made from fat quarters to get a large variety of the 30's reproduction prints. She used one fat quarter for each pinwheel and used the rest of it for the border strips. My customer said she will be using the rest of the scraps to make a scrappy binding.

She did not use a pattern to make her Pinwheel Quilt. With her help, I figured out some of the measurements and how she made it.  The pinwheel blocks measure 11 1/2" including the skinny white border (1 1/2") around the pinwheels. She used scraps for the colorful lattice strips.  They are in various sizes from 3 3/4" to 4 1/2" and all are 4 1/2" wide.  The quilt is 4 quilt blocks across by 5 quilt blocks down. It has a 3 1/2" border. It measures 65" X 80".

Quilting:
Meandering with a Twist - Medium size. The Twist is the occasional little pinwheels.

Thread Color:
Chambray Blue

Batting:
Hobbs 80/20 Cream Cotton/Poly Batting

Size:
65" X 80"

Other information:
Photos taken on a king size bed in the late afternoon with natural lighting.

Backing fabric - extra wide (108") 100% cotton cream muslin fabric.

Enjoy!

Marcia

A Passage Quilt for the Veterans at Rainbow Hospice

This fall, Candy and I teamed up to make a Passage Quilt for Rainbow Hospice. They requested a Passage Quilt that could be used for their patient's that are Veterans with a red, white, and blue theme.

My Mom and I had made one for Rainbow Hospice several years ago in floral fabrics.  You can click here to see the photos of that Passage Quilt.

Candy purchased the fabric for the red white and blue quilt top and she made it at our quilt retreat in October.

Then I brought it home and added the backing fabric and batting and quilted it.

Candy stitched the binding on the Passage Quilt at the Quilt's by Barb's Retreat this past weekend and delivered it to Rainbow Hospice this week.

A Passage Quilt is used when a patient passes away. They use it to cover the body bag as they take the patient out of of the Hospice Center to the funeral home car. The Passage Quilt is used to give comfort to the family members and others at the Hospice Center. Hopefully the colors of the quilt will comfort those who are suffering the loss.  Before the car leaves the quilt is removed and folded up and used for the next passing. It is my understanding that this is a ceremonial process and is very comforting for everyone involved.

The Passage Quilt is approximately 90" × 72".

As many of you know, we also make lap quilts for the beds at Rainbow Hospice. Candy and I and Debbie and Linda have all teamed up to make lap quilts.  We try to make at least 8 to 10 of them a year.

These are the two lap quilts that we just completed in October. The Lap Quilts are approximately 50" × 60".

We welcome donations of fabric and orphan quilt blocks and financial contributions for our efforts.  The lap quilts are placed on the patient's bed. It cheers up the room and makes it more home like during their stay.  When the Hospice patient passes it is given to the family as a comfort quilt.

Both Candy and I enjoy making the lap quilts for the beds and really enjoyed making their newest red, white, and blue Passage Quilt.  We know we are comforting the patients and their families.

Enjoy your day!

Marcia
You can contact me at Marcia@craftysewing.com

Week of Hearts --- A Donation Quilt from 2011

Hearts, hearts and more hearts...

This Heart Quilt was made from Paper pieced Heart Quilt Blocks from all over the world.  It was a donation quilt.

If you want to read more and see more photos --- Click here for the original post from 2011. There is a link on the original post to a tutorial on how to make the paper pieced heart block.

Large meandering with hearts was a perfect selection for the quilting on this donation quilt.

Happy Hearts Week!

Marcia

"Strings of Sunshine" for Show and Tell Saturday and Project Quilting

I completed my Project Quilting - Season Five - Challenge ONE - Strings.  I named it "Strings of Sunshine".

Sharing photos of how I completed my quilted table topper.

Heat on bond lite for the back of the dresden plate block.

Up close to the quilting...

Wiggle lines, swirls, and small meandering for the background.

Embroidery stitched binding - I chose the zig zag stitch where the stitching runs up and down each zig zag and I made it smaller.  It kind of echos the points of the dresden plate points.

Views from all angles.

The backside.

A full view.

 This is the table that I made the Strings of Sunshine Table Topper for.  My daughter and her husband have it on their patio. When we visited them, we ate most of our meals on this table.  On a cloudy day it will bring sunshine to their little table, as it rains there almost every day.

I selected two fabrics for the backside and placed the seam off center.

There were a lot of leftover scraps.  I used them for another quilted project for a Sunday's Scraps Post. I will share it tomorrow on Sunday, Jan. 12th.

Thanks for following along with my Strings Quilted Project for Project Quilting.  Everyone who completed a quilted project will be sharing them by Sunday, Jan. 12th at Noon on the Project Quilting Flicker Site. Hop over and check them out and hop over to Persimons Dreams Blog - Host of Project Quilting.

Enjoy!
Marcia