Project Linus Quilts

Last Saturday my quilt guild had a special sewing day at the local library to make quilts for the Project Linus charity.  I managed to piece three quilt tops that day.  Since today was such a rainy day, I worked on finishing the quilting and binding on the quilts.  It gave me a chance to practice my free motion quilting.





And my favorite:



I completed the April block for the $10 quilt at StitchCraft.



And also finished the April block for the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild Bee.  Sue was the queen bee for April and wanted a block done in blues.  Her block is on the bottom and I made an extra block for me.



On the knitting front, I finished the Riverbank Road vest pattern by Amy Swenson.  I made the 34" size and used just one skein of sock yarn!!  I made this for my youngest niece and hopefully I'll have a picture of her wearing it.



I've also been working on the Gilet court d'été sweater.  I'm knitting from my stash and am using Wisdom Yarns Poem yarn.  I'm not too happy with the consistency of the color between the different balls, it's all the same dyelot but each ball has been a different intensity.  I cast on more stitches then called for to try and make it a little larger.  I think it worked.  I have about 10 more rows to go before I put the sleeve stitches on holders and begin the body.  This will be a nice little sweater for work when the A/C freezes us out.

Yellow Roadster

Today I finally finished the Ritenour hat for "Bubba" to wear on the cold nights when he's cruising in his roadster.  I told Bubba I'd make this hat for him about two years ago when we were at a fundraiser cruise in in Pompano Beach on an unusually cold January night.  Bubba is such a sweet southern gentleman that it was my pleasure to make this for him.  The hat was a fun and easy knit and hopefully my DH will like it so I can make him one.

The hat:



The roadster:

Geese, Geese, Geese

I've started to receive some of the blocks for the South Florida Quilt Guild Mod Bee.  Such a talented group of ladies.  I can't wait to get them all together and start planning the layout of the quilt.

Friday night I finally finished the first block of the $10 BOM at StitchCraft.  I picked the neutral colorway.

This weekend I also finished working on my "Pointless Snow White" quilt.  I had plans for it to be given as a gift to a friends new grand-baby this year but I was having such issues with the pattern.  It was an easy pattern but way too many small pieced squares and lots of seams.  I tried hard to keep a sharp point on my triangles but said "screw it" after awhile.  Overall I am pretty happy with it and will keep it for myself.  I even pieced the back this weekend too, so now I just need to quilt it (along with the six other quilts that need quilting).

Pointless Snow White Quilt

And if that wasn't enough to complete this weekend (guess I'm making up for no quilting last weekend) I also pieced together a tumbler block quilt using some die-cut tumbler pieces I bought a few years ago.  This is now the baby quilt to replace the Snow White quilt.  Now I have an excuse to go to the LQS tomorrow to buy an adorable backing fabric.

Tumbler Quilt

Even though there was no quilting last weekend, I did manage to finish my Wingspan.



And I finally found yarn to match this beautiful machine.  I told the owner, a wonderful southern gentleman nicknamed "Bubba", that I would make him a hat for those cold nights that he had to drive his roadster home.

The car:


The yarn:

Geese

Today I played around with some flying geese.  I did a traditional quilt block, I think it's called Wild Goose Chase.



Then I decided to try something a little "modern" and this is what I came up with.



I'm still slowly working on my Plume quilt.  I finished sewing the borders around the kaleidoscope blocks today and added the HST's to the corners.   Now I can't decide if I want to border the inside peacock panel with the gold border or not.





I also made an extra herringbone/chevron block for the February Mod Quilt Bee.  This one I'll keep for myself to create a sampler quilt at the end of the bee.  It was a wonderful idea that a Bee member thought of.

Plume Quilt

I continued playing with my plume fabric this weekend.  I'm sort of making it up as I go and realized I'm going to have a few interesting seams to sew.  I'm taking my time with this quilt, I only wish I had a full size design wall and not just my little one on my fabric cabinet.


I also finished the first block for the South Florida Modern Quilt Bee.  Nicole at Patchwork Duck  is the Queen Bee for February and requested a scrappy block using this herringbone tutorial.



A member of the quilt bee had the idea of making an extra block each month to create a sampler quilt.  I love that idea because I'll have two quilts at the end of the bee, so now I need to make another block for my sampler.