Thanks Terri!

Last week while chatting with my wonderful QWl Yahoo Group friends, I had mentioned that I was making preemie pads for a delivery we are making to our local hospital that has a large NICU. Some of those very special gals offered to help make some for us! The first package, arrived today!
Thanks so much Terri! They are really cute! All four will be greatly appreciated!

Follow My Lead Column Quilt and more

Me bad, I know I said I would post pics from Monday's post, yesterday. Sorry, it just didn't happen.
This is the pic of the front of the quilt, Follow My Lead, a column quilt designed by Nancy Zeman. Now just need to quilt and bind it!

This next pic, shows how the back of the quilt, follows the same design as the front, just opposite.


Then we have the QOV pillow case I told you about.


And while I was taking pics, here's another donation quilt that came in. "Picture Frame" is from a Lincoln QFK kit sewn and beautifully quilted by Susan!

Fun quilts, and another project done!

First off, there won't be pics tonight, to go along with the post, so sorry! My phone takes lousy pictures, and my camera works, but, unfortunately the USB cable that goes to the computer stopped working! And, I wasn't able to get another one today. So tomorrow, I'll post the pics!

Several days ago, a friend and I were fabric shopping, and ran into another friend. She, was also shopping for material to make her first quilt. We chatted, pulled bolts of fabric from the shelves, helping her to pick the six colors she would need for her quilt. She was making a Column Quilt, and as she was describing how it all went together, I liked what I was hearing, but, had never heard of the technique before!

After I got home, I checked the link she gave me, and before I knew it, I was going through my stash, figuring out colors I could use for a test quilt!

I loved the concept, but, I didn't want a quilt as long as the one Nancy made, so, I had to do some calculations to bring it down to a size that would work great for a Quilts For Kids's quilt, about 38" X 45". It didn't take too long, and I had come up with the dimensions I needed to get started. I had originally planned to do two columns as a test, to see if it was as easy as it seemed. Sure enough, I had those two whipped out in no time, and went ahead and made the three more, that I would need to make the top.
And when I went to view Column Quilts 2, I even got more excited over the quilt featured in this video! Wow, you know me and scrap quilts, I'll definitely be making one like this!!

Today I also got one of the pillowcases sewed up from a kit that I brought home from our last guild meeting, which eventually will hold a QOV quilt when it is presented to a recipient. I still have two more to sew, before our next guild meeting.

Well, its at least officially a Top now!

Back in April, it was my month to send fabrics to everyone in our online bee group Bee Pieceful. I thought these blocks and fabrics, would make a great teen size charity quilt! The blocks are a variation of the "10 Minute Block" from Susan at Design Originals The variation I used, is about 3/4 of the way through the video. I've made several of her blocks, they are fun!
I also have 6 other blocks made with a teal fabric, instead of the pink, to make into a boys quilt! Lol, just not sure when that is exactly going to happen.

QFK-Donation Quilts Received

The Lincoln Chapter of QFK received these awesome quilts from Eileen in July! Thanks Eileen, they are sure appreciated, and will surely bring a smile to the children whom receive them!

July!

Once again, the whole month has flown right by, and although I did try to keep up with some blog reading, I sure didn't get any posting done here.
Jacob had summer school for most of the month. Which required time to get him up, dressed, and on the bus. Then, a couple hours later, he was back home. But, needed lunch, Mom time, and a nap! Now, he has a break for two and a half weeks, until regular school starts. He'll be in first grade this year, and we are hoping he will be able to stay all day, every day, instead of just on Friday's. But, we'll have to see if he has the stamina to make it through all day or not.
My oldest son, has been detassiling this month, hard work for him, especially in the triple digit heat we have been having. But, also made some extra work for me. Mud, mud, everywhere!
Unfortunately, we have only window air units in our home, and one of our biggest units that keep the main floor cool, went out this last month. So during the days that were triple digits, I couldn't stand to even be in my sewing room / office, without sweating! Because, the other unit could only keep some of the rooms cool. Thank goodness, we were able to get it replaced, so now its lots cooler, and I can get something done without dying of heat stroke!
The last online sewing bee group I was in, ended in July, so now that I have no more monthly blocks due, I will be trying to fill those time slots with other projects that need done. Here's the June block I did for the group.



I participated in a community project with my local QG last Saturday, which was held at the quilt museum, to make wall-hangings to be sent to Japan for victims recovering from the tsunami. We were able to get lots done in only about four hours. Several of us, took some kits home to work on, and as of last week between all of us, we had over 45 to send! These are only some of them!



Some really cute quilts came in to Quilts For Kids this last month! And, I have been sewing "preemie pads" to try to get more completed to be able to take a delivery of quilts to the NICU at one of our local hospitals the first part of Aug. Here's some of the "preemie pads" I have sewn in the last several days, three of them, are only tops, and the other three are completely done. I'll try to post some pics of the bigger quilts today or tomorrow.

We are always looking for more volunteers to help the Lincoln, NE chapter out to make quilts, wheelchair bags, preemie quilts, etc., and if someone has any children's prints fabrics or children's prints scraps that might be just taking up space for you, we would be willing to pay postage for you to send them to us, its greatly appreciated!

Bye Bye June!

It sure is very hot and humid here in Lincoln!! It reached triple digits here today! It, being the last day of June puts an end to another month, but, being from Nebraska I know that it won't be the end of the scorching high temps!!

I did a lot of PR work the last several weeks for our Quilts For Kids chapter. The Quarters for Quilts campaign is getting off to a good start for us! We've had some great success from the community in helping to fill our collection cans, and the brochures have brought some more volunteers as well.

I managed to work on several piecing and quilting projects from my long list of UFO's throughout the month, and, hopefully in July will be able to have a couple finishes. I was able to complete the block for May, for the Flickr group Bee Pieceful but, still need to complete June's block for that group. Hoping to finish that this weekend.

Sure hope everyone is staying as cool as possible, and enjoying some quilting time!!