Charm Pack Charity Quilt Update

I finally settled on a pattern for my charm pack charity quilt.  

I wanted something I could make relatively quickly.  

I borrowed a book from a friend that had this pattern in it.  

The pattern is called Connect Four.  

It was so quick to make!  

I cut out the backgrounds and did all the sewing in one day!

I had that pale yellow in my stash and the charm pack was from a swap in the A2MQG.  

We were supposed to make a quilt using the charm squares from the swap.  

I ended up with enough blocks to make 2 tops the size we need for donating to Mott.

Sorry for the poor lighting, my hallway is not lit well at night.

It needed to be just a touch larger so I need to put borders on it.

Oh, thank goodness the quilt inspector showed up!  

Don't know how I would get anything done without her supervision!  

There is the first top all put together.

  I realized that I did not have enough of the yellow to do a border for the second one 

so I went digging through my stash and you know what?  

I found more of it!  If you need a super easy baby quilt this one just might be a good one!

I need to find some flannel from the stash and get this ready to quilt!  

I did get the binding on another quilt all sewn down on Sunday too while binge watching Haven 

with my daughter.

Hubby has been feeling ill with a cold all week, so we were kind of low key this weekend.  

I actually had to do some cooking (ew, ick).  

I made some chili and it turned out pretty well.

Linking up to WIP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced.
Also Sew Fresh Quilts Let's Bee Social

~XOP~

Is It WIP Wednesday Already?

Wow, it is difficult to believe that it is Wednesday already!  

I hope everyone in the States had a nice long holiday weekend, I know I did.  

I took Friday off too so it was nice and extended for me.  

It was super hot and humid for Michigan so not much outside work. 

 I did manage a little weeding but not much.  

I tend to wilt in the hot weather.

I hope you were all able to work on something fun over the weekend. 

 I worked on getting my bee blocks finished. 

 I also worked on my Fox quilt but more on that later.  

These bee blocks are part of the Emerge.do good stitches bee.  I really loved these. 

 They were easy to make and I had fun sorting through the scrap bins to make them. 

 I think this would be a fun way to use up monochromatic scraps and make a kick ass quilt. 

 Wouldn't this be fun in rainbow colors?  

Maybe we could do something like this as a QAL?  

First I made monochromatic log cabin blocks like this.

Then I surrounded those with larger, low volume logs for a finished block like these.

The original, inspiration quilt for these can be found here, at Quirky Granola Girl's blog.  

This is what it looked like. 

 Her process was a little different.  

She started with the monochromatic log blocks then added in low volume logs to complete her quilt.  Go over to her blog post and check out the process.  

What do you think about doing something like this as a QAL?  

I think it would be a lot of fun.  

The A2MQG is going to enter a charity quilt at Quilt Con this year.  

The person in charge of our quilt asked for Mod Mosaic blocks ala Elizabeth Hartman. 

 The finished blocks were to be in multiples of 6 " sizes, ie. 6 x 6, 6 x 12, 12 x 12 etc

Let me just say how much I HATED making these blocks (sorry Ann).

I didn't mind making them so much as making them to a specific size.  

That being said here are my 2 (after about 4 hours of making and re-making, UGH)

They were to be made using the solid sashing of one color and solid of another of the chosen colors.

I also managed to make 3 bindings.  

I don't like making bindings but at least they are ready when the quilts come back to me.

Fox, Tardis and Rainbow Plus bindings are ready for application.

 As per usual my supervisor was hard at work "helping"

I know some of you must wonder what my quilting area looks like 

so I took a wider shot with Autumn on my sewing table.  

As you can see this ginormous table takes up the entire center of my room! 

 I need to take you on a sewing room tour someday too.  

My space is not that big but I am grateful I have an entire room.

I took this one at the end of the night of sewing on Monday.  

Autumn is covering her eyes and it looks like she is praying. 

 I love it when she does that!

I am linking up to WIP Wednesday and Let's Bee Social.  

Be sure to let me know if you would like to participate in a QAL. 

 Otherwise, maybe we could do a monochromatic log cabin block drive. 

 What do you think about that? 

 You could send blocks like I made, or even just the monochromatic log blocks with some low volume strips and I could put them together for charity quilts.  

I don't have much in the way of low volume prints.

Any interest in something like that?

~XOP~

Charity Quilts A2MQG

Being one of the chairs of the A2MQG, I get to photograph and deliver the quilts to

 Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor.  

I have decided that I should photograph them and credit their makers.  

So grab a cuppa (or in my case a Diet Coke) and settle in for a little quilt show!

First up, are these adorable Elizabeth Hartman animal quilts. 

 I love this little fox made by Jackie MacGregor.  

She said it went together quickly and would recommend making these for donation quilts.

Jackie also made this amazing Hazel the Hedgehog quilt.  

Some little is going to be thrilled with these!

The next two were made by Kim Ulrich and Susan Ulrich from kits that I cut from my stash.

Never underestimate how great a simple patchwork quilt can look!

Thanks ladies!  

Notice the cat model? 

Next up is a super sweet quilt made by one of the other Pam's in the guild, Pam Eckler.  

You will not meet a sweeter person than this Pam.  

(Maybe it's the name?)

This next beauty was made by Debbie Grifka.  She is making one charity quilt a month.  

So happy we got this month's work!

I was able to finish quilting my charity quilt too.  

So will link up to Crazymom Quilts Finish it up Friday.

I am also linking up to 100 Quilts For Kids.

I did some straight line quilting on this one.  I also put the binding on by machine. 

 It goes so fast to do it this way!  

I have yards and yards of this flannel, so you may be seeing it again in the future.

A BIG thank you to my assistant photographer, Mosen, 

who just chased his sister under that tree, which you can see her if you look hard enough.

Lots of things to do this weekend and all of them involve me sewing.  

What a happy prospect to look forward to!

Have a happy weekend!

~XOP~