One of the groups that donates a lot of quilts met recently, so I thought I’d share a few of the quilts. I like to recognize their work, and we ALL like to look at quilts, so it’s a win-win! You can click on any picture for a closer look.

And here is the fanciest one of all, made by a group member to donate for her class reunion (not saying how many years!).

Some of these are small quilts; some are twin size. It depends on what is wanted at the places where we donate. Hope you enjoyed the quilt show; we enjoyed making the quilts!

A long-time quilting friend, who leads one of my donation groups, recently bought a longarm quilting machine. She has offered to quilt our donations for Flying Horse Farm! So in future I’ll have pictures of the tops but not of the finished quilts, because she is willing to bind and deliver the quilts as well! What a deal!

Our group recently had a retreat, and that’s an additional story. I had cut out one project for each day of the retreat, thinking I could sew without having to get in the way of others trying to use the cutting area. That part worked out fine. However, I ran out of projects before I ran out of retreat time!!!

Luckily we all bring shoeboxes of fabric we no longer want and everyone takes something for a future project. I went to those boxes and found that a friend had donated a set of coordinating fat quarters she’d changed her mind about! This quilt is the result.

I had to wait until I got home to add the border because the retreat was 40 minutes from the nearest quilt store, in a lovely rural area. This isn’t the house where we stayed, just the neighborhood.

And here’s the quilt top I made from batiks I cut ahead of the retreat. I was able to finish that top and send it home with the friend who will quilt and donate it!

And that’s all we’ll see of these two tops, because after they’re quilted they’ll be donated directly!

Of course I’ve heard of 3-yard quilt patterns, but one of my friends especially enjoys them so I recently tried one. They are smaller than I usually make, but that means they are faster, too!

That background is actually green rather than icky-gold, but I couldn’t seem to get it to show up that way!

This quilt was made from a pattern called Favorite Things in the book Make It Christmas With 3-Yard Quilts, available here. I appreciated that it was a very efficient use of fabric! I did modify the pattern a little because I had plenty of the background fabric.

This picture is the top only; my sewing machine that has a walking foot is still not at home!

Now I’m off to look for more 3-yard quilt patterns! Do you use them? Any that you particularly recommend?

When sorting quilts recently I came across this one and had no memory of it–ha!

Communique quilt from a pattern by Andrea Turner

It was obviously made some time in the 2020s, based on the fabrics included, but I don’t know when, or even who quilted it. Remember, this time period includes the pandemic. For me it also includes a major household move with consequent use of several different long arm quilters. So I just have no idea.

However, I was able to look back through my file of patterns and find the original, available for free here.

And now that I’ve found both the quilt and the pattern I may just make it again. It was a great use of scraps of various sizes!