More quilting

I didn't get nearly enough pictures of our last quilt night. I didn't realize that we are almost finished and won't have this opportunity much longer. Here we are putting together one of the last quilts with our very last quilt squares. We had exactly 48 squares to work with and Manna and Shelley managed to make them work to create 4 quilt tops. So now we have no more squares left.

Amy is doing a good job supervising.

RH # 32 &33

We are nearing the end of the journey. I can't believe that we are almost done with our project. It has taken us almost 2 years to complete it and we will have completed at least 35 quilts along the way! Amazing. Thanks ladies.

These 2 quilts are still an eclectic mix of our estate sale fabric, M & L and JoAnne's. As always, they are backed by my trusty supply of vintage sheets. That pile never seems to diminish no matter how many quilts they are used for.

Favorites

This is my favorite outfit on Jakey this winter. The hat is a treasured garage sale find. I will be very sad when his head is too big for it. The jacket was a Gap kids jacket given to Jakey for Christmas.

Here is Jakey's new and improved room. That is one set of curtains that I made for him behind his new-to-us toddler bed. I got the fabric for the curtains from the Uptown Whittier antique fair, an estate sale, M & L, Amy's Nana Norma and Maxine Hooper. The quilted pillows in Jakey's reading corner were made by my grandma.

Jakey still loves to swing in his dolphin.

Would you believe we are still getting tomatoes from last summer's tomato plant? Only in California.

Triplets!!!

Here is a set of quilts made for a set of triplets soon to join our church family. I collaborated with a couple of girls from the RH quilt group to make these quilts. They were based on patterns from Quilting for Peace. (Now I know what kind of crafting books I like!) The blue quilt on the left was largely done by Gioia, but I contributed the binding and the backing.

Amy and I worked on this pinwheel quilt together. It was fun to do a quilt that required a lot of piecing. The end result is stunning, but it was a lot of work to figure out the pattern.

What ties all three quilts together is the fun yellow backing that they all share. I got this from a vintage sheet found at one of my estate sales. I really love this sheet and am happy that it is going to quilts that I really love and may even see around sometime.

The third quilt is a simple strip quilt, but it was fun to find fabrics that complemented each other. Most are from my stash, but one of the fabrics is from Amy's Nana Norma fabric. A couple of these quilts use fabric from ladies who are no longer with us, but we feel that they would be happy that their fabric contributed to these happy little quilts.