TOO MANY UFO'S

I tend to work on several quilts at a time! Here are some projects I am working on:

• Lattice quilt (working on piano key border with scallops)
• Scrappy Trips Around the World (having lots of fun on this one)
• Log Cabin with applique flowers (blocks are pieced but applique has not been started)
• Red and White Checkerboard Log Cabin (just needs to be quilted)
• Block of the Month using Thangles (one more block to finish, assemble rows, add borders, and handquilt for a special baby girl)
• Patience Quilters Block of the Month Folkart Applique Quilt (just started)
• Scrappy Stars (two rows of blocks with pieced sashing have been completed)
• Beth's Photo Memory Quilt (quite an undertaking this one)
  
• Americana Quilt (almost done handquilting this one!) FINISHED!!!!!
• Monkey Maze Kid's Quilt (needs to be machine quilted)
• Red and White Square in a Square (needs to be quilted--would LOVE to get someone to quilt this in n overall floral pattern on a longarm machine) FINISHED!!!!!!
• Michael's 25-Patch Batik Quilt (hope to finish this one for his birthday or Christmas)
• Lindsay's Asian Square in a Square (hope to finish this one for her birthday or Christmas)
• Eli's John Deere Quilt (PawPaw chose fabric and has been bugging me to get going on this for months)
• Baby Lattice Quilt in 1930's Reproduction Fabrics pieced in diagonal setting (almost done piecing)
• "I Spy" Quilt
• Plus more....
  

Eli's Zoo Quilt

One of My UFO's

I started this BEFORE Eli was born and still haven't finished. I want to embroider his birthday, weight and height at birth, and place where he was born in the open space under "ELI" with my embroidery machine. I just haven't quite figured out how to use it!

Eli and His Sock Monkey

How I Met the Patience Quilters

I have been interested in quilting well, forever. One day I saw a notice in the paper that the Patience Quilt Guild met the second Tuesday of each month at the Methodist Church. I decided then and there that I would attend a meeting. Since it was 45 miles from my home, my overprotective husband insisted on driving me there (more about him in a later post). He said he would go to Lowe's (typical man) while I was at the meeting. As he dropped me off at the entrance, he asked, "Are you SURE you want to do this?" (like I was having liposuction, breast reduction, or some other elective surgery with the likelihood of serious side effects!) I said I would be OK...what could possibly happen to me with a bunch of ladies at the Methodist Church????? I'll tell you what happened...I have made new friends, improved my quilting skills, became involved in community service projects, and learned how to play "strip poker."

Strip Poker

Well, we played "Strip Poker" at our last quilt guild sleepover, and I won! Talk about beginner's luck!!!! I came home with a mountain of 2 1/2 in. x 44/45 in. strips. I used many of the strips in a donation quilt which turned out so cute... I just sewed the strips together in rows and even made the borders with more strips. My friend Jackie quilted it on her long-arm machine. It was given to a homeless child...I hope she loves it and keeps it always.

I Love the Patience Quilters

I'm so lucky to be a member of the Patience Quilt Guild...this is a great group of quilters, and I've learned so much from them. Not only have I improved my quilting skills, but I'm involved in a variety of community service projects. We make quilts for hospitalized children, homeless and displaced children, and patients in the Veterans Hospital. We also make a raffle quilt each year, donating the funds to worthy causes such as the March of Dimes and the Cancer Society, among others. We donate food and toiletries to local shelters, and school supplies to needy children. We have sleepovers (FUN FUN FUN), sit-and-sews, and classes taught by certified teachers where we learn new techniques. Something was definitely missing in my life until I met the Patience Quilters!!!!