2020 and 2021

 At quilt guild last night, one of the ladies asked if I had pictures of quilts I had turned in to community quilts a long time ago.  I told her that I did not but I looked at the pictures on this blog today and I thought it was really fun to see the photos.  And I did have pictures of some of the denim quilts I turned over to community quilts after all.

Revisiting this blog made me happy.  And this blog is just for me anyway so I thought I should add more pictures again.

I needed to start by determining which quilts I need pictures of that have been completed in the past two years.

Completed in 2020:

1.  Leaf on red 1 1/2" squares

2.  Minkee blanket with teal cork fabric as binding

3.  Minkee blanket with brown wood fabric as binding

4.  Dillon's Valentine's Day Heart  2/24/20

5.  Dale's Valentine's Day Heart 2/24/20

6.  Keegan's Valentine's Day Heart 2/24/20

7.  My orange Valentine's Day Heart 2/24/20

8.  Red crumb leaf coaster  2/24/20

9.  Friendship Orphan Block (blue binding)  3/7/20

10.  Friendship Orphan Block (red binding)  3/7.20

11.  BQ Goes Mini Placemat  3/12/20

12.  February Heart from Trackside's Tuesday Technique started in January  3/13/20

13. Eight Easter eggs  4/7/20

14.  Seven Easter eggs  4/8/20

15.  Four masks  4/29/20

16.  Drawer divider  5/8/20

17.  Hearts quilt  5/15/20

18.  Laurel Birch Horses table runner 5/16/20

19. January Calendar Snowflake  5/16/20

20.  Round crumb  5/18/20

21.  Fool's Gold QBA Mystery Quilt  5/19/20

22.  9 Confetti stars and flowers  8/17/20

23.  Amish 2 Color Barn Raising  9/11/20

24.  Commision Minkee Blanket Quilt for Kyla  9/20/20

25.  2 orange masks  10/5/20

26.  Shivery Snowman Friendship Quilt  11/2/20

27.  30 masks  11/25/20

28.  24 red and gray Christmas tree placemats  12/25/20

29.  Commission minkee quilt for Shaina  12/18/20

2020 Summary

106 Started and completed

Completed in 2021:

1.  Stocky Plus Signs  2/2/21

2.  Dillon's Valentine's Day Heart  2/18/21

3.  Colorful Calico Crossover  5/17/21

4.  Orange Valentine's Day Heart  5/21/21

5.  Keegan's orange and black Valentine's Day Heart  5/23/21

6.  Dale's Blue Hearts A Flutter  5/24/21

7.  Hearts A Flutter Placemat  5/24/21

8.  Small Irish Chain Wallhanging  5/24/21

9.  Cell Phony Carry Case  6/17/21

10.  Be My Neighbor Friendship Block Exchange  8/9/21

11.  Blue with a Little Bit of Yellow  9/2/21

12.  Super small Cat In The Hat mat  9/2/21

13.  1 Fish, 2 Fish  9/2/21

14.  3 panels  9/8/21

15.  Nisshin Flour Milling Co  9/7/21

16.  Diedra Adams tree  9/3/21

17.  Your Mountain Is Waiting panel  9/14/21

18.  4 Bonnie B. Buttons Circles and Stars  10/22/21

19.  Borrowed Palette  11/3/21

20.  Love to Stitch wall hanging  11/4/21

21.  Imagine That wall hanging  11/5/21

22.  Linda Jackson's Brown Bag  12/6/21

23.  Binding finished on 5 Santa panels  12/22/21

24.  Dillon's Jelly Roll Race  12/24/21

25.  2 minkee blankets  12/24/21

26.  Jelly Roll Race for Keegan  12/24/21

2021 Summary

39 Started

36 Completed

Friendship Orphan Blocks

Finished two Friendship quilt orphan blocks.  They have been quilted for a long time.  Just needed to add binding.

Minkee Blanket - #3

Finished the binding on a minkee blanket.

Minkee Blanket - #2

Machine sewed the binding on a minkee blanket.

Binding was cut at 3 3/4”, folded in half, machine sewn on the back, folded to the front, and machine sewn down.

Minkee on the front and back.  80/20 batting in the middle.

Red Leaf 1 - #1

In honor of Marjo Nash, who started a new quilt project every New Year’s Day, I started this leaf today.  I also finished it today 😊

The item is only 6” square completed.

I used the 1 1/2” squares I cut out of leftover fabrics as I go along.

The leaf is a leftover from Claire Webber.

Dream Big Panel

Dream Big panel quilted for my Mom for Christmas.

Red Truck Panel

Quilted this panel to give to Dale’s Dad, Dave, for Christmas.

Large Wire Frame Tote

My sister, Shaina, found the pattern for the Large Wire Frame Tote in Havre at the Bearly Square Quilt Shop.  The pattern is from the Fat Quarter Gypsy.  Shaina wanted Mom to make the tote for her to haul her groceries.  Shaina owns Andy's Restaurant in Havre.  Although Shaina asked Mom when she was going to have the totes done once, Mom told her that she needed help from me to understand the directions.

A number of months ago, Mom brought the pattern to me to have me explain it in words.  It didn't work out so this round, she brought supplies to create the totes.  Our first stop was Bernina to get extra supplies.  At that time, I purchased supplies for me to create a tote too.  I wanted to created a tote so I could show Mom what to do with her totes.  I wanted to stay one step ahead.

By the time Mom headed back to Havre, she had completed one tote.  She had started on the other three she is intending to make for Shaina.

I used some of my Judy Niemeyer fabric for this project.  I like the result a lot.

Started Large Wire Frame Tote on October 23.

Finished a Large Wire Frame Tote on October 25.

Pillowcases

There were some flannel pillowcases that Dale brought into the marriage 15 years ago.  They were beaded up and I didn't think they were very comfortable.  I reallocated the pillowcases into dog beds.  The night I first put that dog bed in the pile, Keegan, age 9, walked by and saw said pillowcase.  He started crying saying that he loved that pillowcase.   How could I make it into a dog bed.  He was pretty inconsolable.
On Monday, November 4, I started making Keegan and Dillon pillowcases for Christmas.

Stocking

The Featherweight Friday project at Trackside Quilting on November 1 was a quilt as you go stocking.  Rather than the organized wedge pattern suggested, I just did willy nilly crumb quilting with really big pieces.

I donated the stocking to Adult Resource Alliance as part of the Christmas giving program through Quilt By Association quilt guild.

It was nice that all of the supplies for this project were from stash.  And I was able to complete it in the one day at Trackside Quilting.

Community Quilts

I was trying to take things easy after my gum grafting surgery so I quilted some community quilts.  I don’t love to do the binding so I just turn the pieces into QBA without binding.  There are some ladies who love binding so I will let them do it 😊

This polyester top was in a bag to be made into a dog bed.  I thought it was fine enough to be a quilt for a human for a while.  So I quilted it.

Keepsake Quilting now has fabric printed that looks like denim scraps on top of each other.  I had been thinking about my denim scraps for a while.  When I had some backing left on the bottom of the other community quilts, I used my quilting machine to put denim scraps together.  These are cut about placement size.  I made a bigger one that I like better.

I had this denim bordered polyester top created for a long time.  I intended to use it in case I had to do a demo.  But I finally decided just to quilt it.

Another placemat.

Friendship 2019 Shivery Snowmen

The pattern selected for this year's Friendship Block Exchange is Shivery Snowmen.  We had 3 different fabrics we could use in our blocks so fabric was less important this year.  We did still have the restriction of all batik fabric.

Blocks I created for the exchange:
January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Following are the blocks I received from my friends:
Because there were fewer than 12 people participating, I received 2 of my blocks back.  January was the first block we got to keep.

Sue W.

Lynn C.

Kris L.

Marlene W.

Rita O.

Sue C.

Sue H.

Mine

Sue W.

Lynn  C.

Kris L.

Now I need to get the quilt completed by the next get together on Saturday, April 4, 2020.

The exchange party was Saturday, September 7 at my house.  It is always fun to get together.

I had part of the top put together to show this at 60 Day Club at the Laurel Golf Club on Saturday, November 2.

Finished putting on the outer borders of the top on Monday, November 4.

Started Holiday Star Table Runner and Square Topper at Table Topper Tuesday at Trackside Quilting in Laurel.  The pattern is by Sue Colley.

String Challenge

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Started my string piecing challenge for Modern Quilt Guild. The background has huge blue background strings. Orange flowers appliqué on top.
Idea from the book Quilts on Safari by Jenny Williamson and Pat Parker.
More specifically, the suggestion was from the quilt Leap Year in the Lowveld by Pat Parker and Jenny Williamson.

Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Showed my unfinished string flower piece at the Modern Quilt Guild meeting at Four Winds Quilting.

Sometime in May, I did finish this little quilt.

Snake River Log Cabin

I have had the pieces cut and a few blocks created for Snake River Log Cabin for a long time.  It all started when my friend, Melissa, saw the quilt pattern in Judy Martin's book.  Melissa said she wanted to make this quilt.  We cut out the pieces and organized them nicely as instructed in silver ware trays.  Then, I put mine pieces in a paper box and left them there for years.

Thinking I was organized enough to finish this quilt for the Big Sky Quilt Show in March 2019 in Billings, MT, I opened the box.  Although I had the top completed, I did not have Snake River Log Cabin quilted in time.  I think I finished this quilt in May 2019.  It still does need to have a hanging sleeve applied so I can enter it in the next guild show that comes along.

Wool batting makes it fluffy and pliable.  I really like Snake River Log Cabin.

2019 Hearts

Every Valentine's Day, I have been trying to make a little heart themed quilt for the boys.  Even though I had a lot to do in preparation for Big Sky Quilt Show in 2019, I decided to make the mini quilts anyway.  I did them on the longarm machine thinking it would be fast.  Cutting out all of the small hearts to cover the background was not a fast process.

I still do not believe these were done in time for Valentine's Day (since I started them February 3).  But it was close.

Woodland Creatures

The Town and Country Quilt Guild of Joliet, MT is creating Woodland Creatures as their raffle quilt for the 2020 show.  Many people, including me, were to create a block or a row for the quilt.  We were to hand applique (raw edge) the row.

I was starting to trace the pieces one social Tuesday at Trackside Quilting.  Sue Hanson had done Woodland Creatures as their block of the month program the previous year.  She had a kit leftover so she let me have that kit for my row.

I turned my row in at the Town and Country Quilt Guild meeting on May 9, 2019.

Friendship 2017

I participate in a Friendship Block Exchange organized by Sue Wheeler.  In 2017, we created whatever blocks we wanted.

It took me a long time to decide how I wanted to finish my 2017 Friendship quilt.  I was fortunate enough to get to go on a bus tour to Missouri Star Quilt Company in Hamilton, MO through Trackside Quilting.  While I was shopping there, I found what I thought was the perfect batik.  I loved the orange.  So I used a lot of my perfect fabric :-D

Finished April 25, 2018.

This quilt won the first place People's Choice ribbon in the Quilt Among Friends category at the Town and Country Quilt Guild show in June 2018 in Red Lodge, MT.

This quilt was also shown in the March 2019 Big Sky Quilt Show in Billings, MT.  It didn't ribbon in the Quilt Among Friends category.

Easter

Dillon noticed that we did not have any Easter quilts.  I intended to create these Easter eggs in time for the Easter in question but of course they were not done in time.  I think I finished them the week after Easter in 2018.