First time

A lady from the quilting guild that I belong to started a quilt for the Quilts For Valour project I wanted to participate. I didn't know the block we would be doing would be machine applique. I have done very little applique work in the years I have been quilting, and those projects I have tried I have done by hand. When I realized this I decided I would give it a try anyway. For a first effort I think it turned out well.

Hooray, it's finished...

In March I was contacted by one of our local libraries and asked if I could assemble and quilt a project that they needed finished by mid April. I agreed to try and picked up the 6 inch blocks on the 19th of March. There were 46 blocks in total, all drawn by the children who participated in a summer reading program last year.

I found this nifty red fabric with words like reading, school, fish, book and a few more at the Lens Mills store in London.

I machine pieced the blocks with a 2 inch red sashing and a 1 inch royal blue border followed by a 3 inch red border and bound it with the royal blue. I then added a hanging sleeve so the library could hang the finished quilt in one of their meeting rooms. I put the last stitch in the quilt on April 10 and was able to deliver the finished quilt on the 15th just 3 days before the the due date.

See what I made...

I made this Weighted Pincushion Organizer this weekend. I found the instructions on a blog called Sew, Mama, Sew. The pattern is by Elizabeth Hartman. I hope to use it at an upcoming quilt quild workshop I plan on attending in May.

April's Border...

This is my first time working on a block of the month mystery quilt. Serveral people from the quilt guild that I belong to are working on this one from Claudia's Quilt Shoppe.

New at this....

I am new to this blogging experience but I am quite excited about giving it a try. I am a quilter and I hope to share some of my quilting and life experiences using this forum.