I've made several baby quilts for Sovereign Grace church since I last wrote. Some were quilts I had made over a year ago, but had never donated anywhere. A few were quilted, but needed binding. Others needed fleece backing and one or two were complete and just waiting on me to overcome my posterior transmission problem (otherwise known as getting my fanny in gear). So I finished the bindings on those that needed it and bought fleece and backed and bound the others.
Then I decided since it was autumn I'd use up some of my novelty fabric, so I made a few Halloween quits. They turned out really cute, so I decided I needed to use up some of my Christmas fabric next. I only got four of the Christmas ones made, but they turned out really cute, too! I used very simple four-patch and nine-patch based blocks in order to get them done as quickly as possible. Hancock's Fabrics had their fleece on sale at half price, so I took advantage of that for the backings instead of actually using batting and fabric backing.
I managed to remember to take pictures of the Halloween and Christmas quilts and a couple of the other autumn quilts, but didn't take pictures of all the ones I donated, sad to say.
After Christmas and New Year's there was a bit of a let-down. My daughter from California came for a visit and I enjoyed having her and her fiance here so much. It was a little sad to see her go, of course, so I fell into a bit of a funk and just vegged for a while. But not nearly so long as I have before. Heartstrings quilters saved me and got me going with their call for Happy Blocks. I started with a couple of scraps of novelty fabric and strips of brights, but soon got addicted. As of this afternoon, I have 45 Happy Blocks ready to send off to Sue. I'll take some pictures before they get mailed so I can post them. They are so cute and so much fun to make. I've decided to keep a stack of novelty fabric squares and some brightly colored strips close at hand to make a few more here and there in between the other projects I really have to get cracking on.
My next goal is to FINALLY finish Janice's memory quilt. All I have to do is lay out the quilt sandwich, spray, pin and quilt, then bind it and it's ready to go. Hope to have most of it done by the weekend. Pray for me!
