Quilt for Ginnie

I just posted about this qiult and forgot to post the pictures. This is the quilt for Ginnie.

Quilt for Ginnie

This quilt was another cast off from Sandra of the Stashbuster Yahoo group! Sandra made all those gorgeous blocks and decided she wasn't happy with them. She sent the blocks to one lady on Stashbuster, that lady put the top together. That lady sent them to another lady on Stashbuster to do the quilting and binding. That lady sent the quilt to me to deliver to Ginnie. I washed, dried and trimmed strings on the quilt and took it to Ginnie.

This quilt is a great size to use for a wheel chair. Ginnie was in a wheel chair full time when this quilt was given to her. This was a couple of years ago. Ginnie was in a terrible car accident which paralyzed both of her legs. She was going through therapy then and still is. She is now using a walker part time!!! She is getting the use of her legs back.

Ginnie was estatic when my husband and I presented this quilt to her. Just look at the smile on that face. She is still loving this quilt. This was truly a group effort by the people on Stashbuster!! I wish I could remember the different states each of the ladies that worked on this quilt lived in. I am in Georgia and so is Ginnie. We quilters call our blocks and things like that, that are made and not put together in a quilt top yet, "Projects In Grocery Sacks" or "PIGS" for short. Stashbuster has an on going project to send those "PIGS" to others if you are at a loss of what to do with them..let someone else tackle them..new eyes can do wonders with someone elses no longer loved project. We donate these quilts to charity..so..it's a win win for everyone involved.

Fishing Under the Stars

This quilt came about from a group of folks that spun off from the Stashbuster Yahoo group. A group of quilters wanted to make the Shakespear In The Park quilt from the Judy Martin pattern. Sandra that runs the Stashbuster group started hers out in the colors in this quilt. She did not have enough contrast in her fabrics in her stars for the pattern in the Shakespear In The Park to show up. So, she started another Shakespear In The Park in other colors and had these blocks to send to someone else to turn into a charity quilt. She sent them to me!! I had this lovely fishing fabric to go with it.

So, Sandra sent me her stars and the setting triangles. I added the background fishing fabric, the binding fabric and the backing fabric. I had one extra star that would not fit on the front and appliqued it to the back of the quilt. I sent this quilt to Quilts For Kids to go to a very sick young boy. I named this quilt, "Fishing Under the Stars."

Grandma Miller's Flour sack quilt

These are pictures of the quilt my step-grandmother made that I now have. I love this quilt. It has a couple of holes in it that I need to repair. They are very small holes. She hand stitched and hand quilted this quilt that is made from flour, sugar, and feed sacks. She even used them for the backing. She handquilted the Baptist Fan pattern all over the quilt.

Flour sack cat quilt

I didn't mean to post the same cat quilt top picture twice. I was trying to post this picture for the 2nd one..a close up of the cats.

This is a picture of a quilt top that the mother or grandmother of a friend of mine made out of flour, sugar and feed sacks. He still has a stack of the white sacks that were also stored in trunk with this quilt top. I helped his wife sandwich and baste this quilt and taught her how to hand quilt it. I Have handquilted a small portion of it with her. She isn't too enthusiastic about working on it and she only works on it every now and then for the past few years. This quilt needs to be finished and hung in their older home...one of those older antebellum type homes that is. Unfortunately my friend isn't as quilt crazed as we quilters are..her husband is..he is attached to his mom's and grandmothers old treasures..he rememebers them working on their quilt tops back when he was a young boy. He also has one or two more quilt tops that they made...I will try to remember to get pictures of them when I am over there one day.

Cutting Scraps

For the past several days I have been cutting up leftover scraps from making several quilts and from scraps that others have given me. I plan on using a lot of these scraps in some scrappy quilts.

I love the look of scrappy quilts. They remind me of quilts my step-grandmother made. I am very fortunate to have one of those quilts. She made her quilts out of the feed, sugar, and flour sacks of her day. Wish I would of had the quilting bug back when she was alive to ask her about her methods. I will post pictures of the quilt I have later and a small pillow cover she made of a donkey. I have seen the donkey pattern in a 1985 magazine. Hers was made a long time prior to that.