Fellow Texans Nancy K. and Jenn occasionally team up to help CiL finish block drive quilts. Nancy put together these stars from the 2021 "Oh My Stars" drive and Jenn did the quilting on her long arm. I really like the layout Nancy chose.
If you look closely you can see that the quilting panto has stars and swirls in it.
Nancy also put together these Tall 9 blocks and Jenn quilted it with an organic curvy panto. Perfect colors for this time of year. With recent drop offs we are rapidly approaching 1500 quilts donated in the East Texas ...
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Wishing for Fall and admiring these fall-colored quilts! There were a couple of mornings this past week when I went out the door for work that it actually felt cool.
These tops were made by Gail and kitted up with complimentary backings and bindings to make them quick to finish. These are from the Tall 9s block drive.
Linda took it from there and did a lovely job with coordinating FMQ patterns on her long arm.
Gail actually lives very near me, and she's contributed finished tops to MANY of CiL's drives. She has meticulous piecing and great ...
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Happy Friday quilters! This weekend I have quilts from Linda to show you. Linda has been such a busy worker bee for the past couple years helping to finish CiL quilts.
This geese quilt was Linda's contribution to the Sept/Oct 2022 drive, she made this one entirely herself. I really like this quilting design with the loops.
This quilt is from the 2021 red, white, and blue stars drive. I recognize a lot of Mina's fabrics in there.
Linda assembled and quilted the blocks. I know that quite a few of you helped Cynthia with her red ...
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Happy Friday! Here are four more quilts assembled and quilted by Cynthia from our past year's block drives. Cynthia did such a good job on these while also getting her own quilting charity, Compassion Quilts, off the ground!
Cynthia talks about 3 of these in this post and the fourth one at the bottom of this post. She talks about how she chose to sort and arrange the blocks and there are also more pictures.
This next one is my personal favorite of this set because of the more saturated colors and the pops of green.
Cynthia's Compassion ...
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Hello quilters and happy Friday! Happy Spring! My parents are tilling their garden and I've been weed-eating around my house and cutting down last year's lantana.
Linda recently sent back a batch of quilted Tall 9s quilts along with 2 of her own quilts. This batik with the HSTs and the cool square-swirl quilting is my favorite.
I thought the star FMQ on this modern stars quilt was really cool.
I'm doing ok, not what I'd consider normal but better than I was doing earlier in the year. I think the change in the weather helps ...
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| Many of the blocks in this quilt are from Beth H. |
Photo bomb by my new porch cat (stray). She doesn't have a name yet, I've been calling her "My Friend." She ...
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The first ten quilts from the Fall Tall 9 Patch Drive have been finished! Pam assembled and quilted these blocks sent in by Susan.
I can't get enough of these colors and I hope you feel the same. The blocks from Cindy were also assembled and quilted by Pam.
Irene sent in these blocks that Pam completed. I had to take a close up of the awesome saturated fabrics.
Lastly for this group from Pam, this quilt is made from blocks sent in by Jane and Kathleen. Usually I mix the block from a drive all together, but if ...
read moreHello Quilters! Another month has snuck past us and it's time for the Fall 2021 CiL Block Drive. For September and October I thought we could reprise an old block drive from 2016 when many of you hadn't joined us yet.
The block is called a "tall nine patch" and you can find the tutorial for it here. Last time we made the blocks in a really light color combination. If you want to see how those quilts came out you can find them here and here.
This time I think we'll make the blocks in a ...
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