Jar quilt

Jar quilt

I'm feeling better.  Went to the doctor on Friday and started meds and the glass in my throat is gone.

I managed to get this jar quilt done in the mean time.  It has a strange little history.

The Limes



The Beets



Two years ago, my friends bought this beautiful fruit and veggie fabric and I suggested a jar quilt.  We could make the quilt, see and send it to the Raquel Ray show along with information about our quilt guild and how we had made over a 1000 charity quilts in the first 4 years we were in service, bla bla bla.  She would hang the quilt on her set, they would come and film our little guild (about 100 members at the time) she would connect us up with Moda or some other wonder fabric company to provide all our fabric for our charity quilt endeavors and it would become a Raquel Ray Charity called 'Huggo' or something Raquel-y  Did I tell you I think big?

The Corn On The Cob

Well In about 2weeks time this jar quilt appeared at my front door ready for quilting.

At the time I had 10's of thousands of quilts to quilt so it sat and sat and sat and sat and sat............

Finally this weekend I quilted it.

Destination different.

This quilt will be going to Judy Howard for her traveling quilt show to raise money for food pantries and the hungry'

A much better destination don't you think? . 



Yesterday  managed to get 2 more quilts basted so I'm back at it.

Happy quilting

Last night's Guild meeting

Last night was the monthly meeting of the Mid-Del Stitchin' Sisters Quilt Guild.  Our program was presented by Judy Howard the Owner of Buckboard Quilts, and is the award-winning author of 'Heavenly Patchwork—Quilt Stories Stitched with Love', 'Heavenly Patchwork II—Quilt Stories to Warm Your Heart', 'Centennial Stitches—Oklahoma History in Quilts', and 'Thanking Our Troops—God Bless America Touring Quilts' 

Her presentation was fascinating as usual showing  many beautiful antique quilts with wonderful histories.  As she ended her program, she talked about "the Home of the Brave" project that provides quilts to the families of fallen soldiers.  Here is the link to the national page http://www.homeofthebravequilts.com/ .  If you are interested in helping make the quilts, our guild will be participating. Starting next month, you can bring your finished blocks to our meeting (The 2nd Tues of each month at the Douglas Boulevard United Methodist Church, Just South of the intersection of Reno and Douglas Boulevard, in Midwest City, OK.) They ask that you use Civil war type fabric, the muted blues and browns and reds and off whites or muslin.  The quilts are based on the Civil War bed roll.  the OK coordinator will be at the Winter Quilt show in Okc accepting blocks and quilt tops and showing completed tops and quilts and talking about the project.  Here is the pattern for the quilt.  Oklahoma is about 70 quilts behind!   http://www.homeofthebravequilts.com/resources/QuiltInstructions.pdf.

Happy quilting