Tuesday, September 16, 2008

I'm Back!!

Well it's been a long time since my last post but I'm back.
On my last post I told you of a class that I was going to take in order to help a friend of mine make a quilt. It's taken an entire year to finish this top but here it is....

Here's another one.......

One more closer view.......

I found out after fighting with the square in a square blocks that there was a mistake in the pattern. This quilt top taught me a few valuable lessons. I will never cut out an entire quilt without making one of each block in scrap fabric. I am known to my friends as the "Golden Seamripper" and I sure lived up to the name on this one. I'm going to put this top on my HQ16 and get it quilted in the next week.
I have finished one quilt for a group called "American Hero Quilts". If you've never heard of them, they provide quilts for our soldiers. The tops are pieced and sent to others to be quilted and then sent on to be bound. It's a very worthy organization and I would encourage all of my quilting friends to get envolved in this cause. That seems to be the least that we can do for the men and women fighting this war. The website for American Hero Quilts is http://www.americanheroquilts.com/.

Here are a few picts of that quilt....




This is the back, a beautiful piece of blue batik.

I hope to have many more quilts finished to share with you in the future.
Coleen

2 comments:

Coleen said...

Beautiful. Pat will be very pleased with the quilt!!!

~Bren~ said...

Sorry...that comment was from me but I was in under your name! OOPS!