I Love Making Blue Quilts, But.....

I am going to make a quilt with greens. Yes I said greens! I am going to Quilts by Barb's Quilt Retreat in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. This is the 11th year she has hosted quilt retreats.  I have attended every year! Last year, we all made the Celebration Quilts. Click here for the link to My Celebration Quilt. 

This year, we are all going to make "Squarey Quilts".  I am going to make a quilt for daughter and her husband.  My daughter loves greens. (I wish she loved blues.) I do have all colors in my fabric stash but mostly blues!

I folded them and laid them out on the table. Yes you can see a few blues in the there.  I may have to add a few blues just for me, since I am making it for her.

She wants a quilt similar to this one and they added blues too!

I washed, starched, and pressed my green fabrics.  I neatly folded them and layered them into a plastic container. They are already to go to the retreat with me!

I will not use all of them, but this way I will have choices. I had a lot more greens that I thought.

The plastic container wasn't full, so I added a few more blues, just in case I want to make a few blocks for another quilt in the blues.

I can't wait to start cutting and sewing!

Have a great weekend!
Marcia

Completed a few more blocks ...

...of my Celebration Quilt.  I started this quilt in November at Quilts by Barb Quilt Retreat.

I had a good start...

and I completed about 15 more blocks.

All the pieces are cut and ready to sew so the next time I get out this quilt to work on it, I should be able to complete the quilt top.  That is what is so nice about quilt retreats. You finish or almost finish quilt tops! You have big design walls to display all the blocks too!

These are the fabrics that I chose to use for the Celebration Quilt.

This is the quilt, I am planning on giving to the Fireside for their fundraising efforts that go towards Rainbow Hospice.  My Mom and I make one every year.  I am hoping to find time to complete the quilt top and quilt it in March.

Enjoy your day!
Marcia

Show and Tell Saturday

I am at a quilting retreat in Oelwin, Iowa --- LouAnn's Quilt Garden and Retreat. 

A couple of us started on Tuesday and I started on Wednesday.  We bring lots of quilting projects. We sew and sew and sew.  Some of my projects, I had all the blocks done and I just stitched them together and added borders.  Some I started here and finished them here.  I made a few more blocks for the My Favorite Block Quilt Along. 

Sharing my progress through today and I still have a full day to sew! Yippee! I am having so much fun with my quilting friends!

First, I made a Baby quilt top. I am going to be a Grandma!

Many of you from the facebook fabric destash group will recognize the fabrics that I bought and collected over the past few months.

I used the scrappy trip along method that Bonnie Hunter shares.

They were really run fabrics to create with.

Then I worked on the Owl block and the Heart blocks.

I made some little hearts too!

It was nice to have a big display wall.

Made the Heart Blocks on Valentine's Day night. A friend brought some strawberry wine and specialty chocolates.

What a wonderful treat for Valentine's Day!

Using the scraps, I made some tiny little Mini Quilts.

Then is was time to work on my Home Sweet Home Quilt from last year's Quilt Along.  I had only completed 6 blocks and I brought all the instructions along for the remaining blocks, but I decided to complete the quilt with the 6 blocks.

I added a patio to the block on the bottom right.

And decided to create 4 patches for the border of my quilt.

I can't wait to quilt it! Another top completed!

We did a group project too!  I asked my friends to bring 6 fabrics to create the Leafing Out Quilt that I made for Project Quilting last Challenge.  I think we have tentatively named the quilt pattern "Mixed Nuts".

I will share more about this project on Tuesday for Hodgepodge Patchwork Tuesday.

Today I am sewing bindings for the quilts we made for Rainbow Hospice.

Still have two more quilt projects to take out and complete or just get a good start on them.

Really enjoying my "Me Time" with friends and completing unfinished quilt tops.  I will share more this next week.

Enjoy your day and take time to play!
Marcia