RH Quilts 34 &35

Sorry for the bad picture quality. I had to try to photograph these quilts on the windiest day of the year and so decided just to do it inside. I think this one is #34. We managed to use up all of the quilt blocks with none left over and I think our combinations still look nice.

Another crazy thrifted sheet for the back.

A few of our "Thanksgiving" and "Christmas" blocks made it into the quilt. Lovely. =)

I love the pansy thrifted sheet on the back of this quilt. I'm going to miss having an excuse to grab every vintage sheet in sight. I'll have to think of another reason to hoard these great sheets.

Shelley and Abby's quilts

This quilt was made for Shelley. In our haste to put it together, hers didn't get any batting, but since it will probably spend a lot of time in Hawaii, it might not matter. Most of the blocks incorporate the hula cow fabric she got at a yard sale in Hawaii, so it is fitting that this quilt should go to her.

We also made a quilt for Abby, our pastor's wife. Hers was made up of our favorite squares and there is batting in this one.

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.

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.

RH # 30 &31

I really like this top. Unfortunately the sheet on the bottom had a few holes. I think I'll be able to patch them up and make it work.

This was our desert quilt. It was made up of all of the sandy and tan colored squares. They chose the blue backing so that it would contrast with the brown front.

RH #28 & 29

2 more done. These tops were completed before Christmas, but with all of the craziness we haven't gotten a chance to bind them until now.

#29. We should have been finished by now, but 5 (or maybe 6) of the first quilts were given away to the firsts girls at Refuge House, so our quilting project continues.

Random quilt night pictures

Mugsy always likes to be involved somehow. He is usually getting in the way, so this was a good place for him .

There is always ironing to be done.

Amy is hard at work with Shelley's "desert" quilt getting pieced together on the ground.

RH Quilt #27

Our 10th quilt completed for this quilting season and our 27th total for RH. If you have been keeping count, we should only have 1 more left to make, but because of some communication problems about the quilts, we actually have 7 more to make. We are actually happy about this because it would be sad to be finishing our project. It's nict to have to make a few more. The above quilt is a nice mix of M &L and estate sale fabric.

RH Quilt #25 & 26

A lot of estate sale fabric here mixed with a bit of JoAnne's.

A good mix of M & L and estate sale squares. This would have been almost our last quilt, but unfortunately 6 of our quilts were given away permanently, so the RH quilt group must quilt on. Our goal was to make 28, but now we have to make up for the 6 that were given away, so we are 8 away from our final goal. Not bad for a year and a half of work. If we had a mathematician in the group, it would be interesting to see how many yards of fabric we have used in the creation of these quilts. All of the backs are vintage sheets as are the bindings of the quilts. We don't use batting, so that has saved us a bit.

RH Quilts #23 &24

This is the mostly M & L fabric quilt.

Another mostly M & L and JoAnne's fabric quilt, with a little bit of estate sale and Shelley's garage sale fabric thrown in.