Warm Moda Homespuns

Burrr.....Baby it's Cold Outside!!!

This is still one of my favorite ME sayings.

This sweet little warm Moda Brushed cotton homespun string quilt is going to a sweet new baby boy.

 

Last year my friend Sarah gave me a bag of Moda pastel brushed cotton homespuns.  Yip Yip Yahoo!!  This is what I made out of them.  Thanks Sarah :)

Picking Up the Pace ~ Again

Here is a top that I completed last year when we had our snow storm here in Raleigh, NC.

You can link back to see the post here

I just finished quilting it and also made a super terrific monogrammed burp cloth to go along with it.  This one goes to a sweet baby in the Soldier's Angeles Organization.  I ♥ the backing on this one.  

Nothing Girly

Special request from a local Air Force family.

Nothing Too Girly 

I love girly, but I love how this one turned out.  

This is why I love doing what 

I do.

You all know that my special passion is making quilts for babies who are born while their daddies are deployed.   Right? 

I happened to find this blog while searching the Blanket Brigade website.  I was looking for a new family for me to sent a quilt to.  This one brought tears to my eyes.   Please read Mrs. P's blog.  Please continue to make your donation quilts.  Please keep donating them to any organization, foundation, hospital, charitable orgainzation, family, or someone that is dear to your heart.  

Our soldiers are dear to mine, forever.

It's a Green Thing

A beautiful quilt for a beautiful birthday girl.

Happy 21st. Claire! 

So you know the saying "When Life gives you scraps, make quilts"? Right?

Out of a terrible tragedy, emerges this bright lively string quilt.  Without any details, my friend's daughter needed to come home from college for the weekend to spend time with her family.  She needed comfort and needed something to do quick to feed her soul and help with some healing.  So I taught them how to make a string quilt.  This all happened last year.  Well now mother and daughter are now hooked on quilting.  Yipee!! That's a good thing.   They finished the quilt and I sent it off the a long armer and I bound it for them.  We both presented it to the birthday girl yesterday, September 6th for her 21st birthday.

mom and daughter are doing wonderful!

Perfect Time for a Give-Away

**Leave a little bit of love!!  {That means a comment}**

Here is a set of 4 machine embroidered 6 1/2 inch snowball blocks.  

Get creative and let's see what you can do with them. 

Sweet designs from Hatched in Africa

Winner picked at random...soon..

Zizzybob is the Winner!

String Quilts for the Little Wee Ones

I love how these sweeties turned out.  

It's gonna be hard to part with that pink and green one on the top.  {Oh, I love that one so.}  Well come to think of it, the pink and yellow one at the bottom too.  

I used to have a hard time making a quilt and then giving it away.  I kinda hoard my quilts.  But you know something, doing My String thing Challenge has made it possible for me to let them go.  Knowing right off that they are meant to be donated has helped me with that process.  Eight sweet little babies will get a special part of me. 

I now have 7 more to quilt and my first shipment will be completed.

I hope you are getting as much joy from making your quilts as I am.  Please let me know what your progress has been and where you have been donating any of them.  It's super special to see where they will be going.

Happy Quilting.

Stacey

{I'm Excited}

I just got a call from my Mom4RMarines contact saying that they need 8 baby boy, and 7 baby girl quilts.  Maybe I better rethink the lavender and do blue instead.  What do ya think?  

Since I tend to do girly pinkish prints, I better get digging into my stash for blues.  Good thing I've got a nice stash of about 10 string quilts all set and ready to go.  Guess where I'll be for the next few days?   In my sewing room of course.  I'll post my progress when I get them all finished.

These are all going to families at Camp Lejeune, NC.  

God Bless all of our troops

and their new little wee ones just born!

Stacey

I think in Pink ~ A Lot!

I have to admit. I think in pink a lot!  :)  Doesn't it seems like most of my string quilts are for girls?  What is it about pink?  I always lean toward that color.  Pink just shouts out to me 

{Use me! Use me! }

I have pretty much depleted my pink string basket. 

Maybe the next color to tackle will lavender.

A little Freebie to some lucky winner.  

Leave a comment and I'll pick a winner!

Soon!

*millie is my winner*

She is a busy lady.

She's got a fun blog too.  

Millies Quilting

Ahh!!! Back to my color-controlled life

Kind of random, but kind of planned.  A little bit at least.

Just Grab and Go!!!

No planning, no color-coordination, just grab and sew.  

Bright Novelties.

Get Ready, Set & Go

To the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival!

I wonder if the recent String Quilt craze will be on display at the quilt show.  

Hmmmm!!   I guess I'll let you know when I return.

Just last week, I got the privilege of shoveling snow and then pulling weeds...all in the same week!  

A wintery mix is in the forecast for Wednesday.  Oh no!!  Maybe I'll get stuck with all those wonderful venders and quilts for any extra day in Hampton Roads, VA.
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Here is what I saw that would qualify as string quilts to me at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt show.  

Pretty Neat. Huh?

Is it Presidents Day or President's Day or Presidents' Day?

To me, it is a good day to remember all of the wonderful freedoms that I have in this country.   This summer I began reading as much as I could on the history of the United States and it founders.  It has sparked an incredible desire for me to make and donate as many quilts as I can.  I probably don't get out and get as active as I should in my community, but donating these quilts is the next best thing for me.

I won't go shopping for incredible deals at Macys.  I won't go and buy a car or mattress.  I think I'll shop stash instead.

This is a stack of quilts that all of the ladies in my quilting bee donated to Alycia last year.  We all brought in fabric and it was incredible how fast and efficient we were.  We made eight quilts.

Confectionery Delight

My favorite candy... Skittles ! In all types.  Some folks like 'em sweet, some like 'em sour and some even like original and tropical.  No matter what flavor,  I eat 'em by the handful.  Okay! Well! not that often or I wouldn't be able to keep this body of mine in tune.  

 

Last night though, I ate a whole huge box at the movies.  Sherlock Holmes is a very long movie.  It's not often that my husband takes me out the movies.  I kinda wanted to see a sweet romantic comedy or something along those lines.   I bet it's been about 5 years since we went to see a movie together.  We just can't agree on a genre.  He likes guy stuff and I don't.

So I made him buy me the biggest box they had.  I finished the whole box by myself.   I didn't even share any of them with my him.  

What in the world does this have to do with String Quilts?

You might be asking. 

I made this bright and cheerful little quilt last weekend when it was brutally cold here.  While I was making it,  I was thinking of a clever quilt name for my post or even for a label.  So Skittles it is. 

Today is the first day of bright sunshine and no gale force winds bringing the wind-chill down to 24 degrees.  It is a toasty 44.  

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On another subject.  Is anyone up for a new challenge?  How about if we make a patriotic-themed string quilt to commemorate President's Day.  Let's make our Founding Fathers proud.  I will pick a winner at random.   

Ooohhhh !!

A neat 2 1/2 inch AccuQuilt Cut sweet treat of americana charm squares.

Just leave a comment.  

Please leave me a way to notify you if you are my winner.  Some of you are following anonymously or have your blog set to private.  I don't want you to miss out on such goodness!! 

Katie Wins!!

Me too! Yellow and Blue!

Linda and I were both thinking the same!!

25 x 25 with 5-inch finished blocks

Remember when Blue and Yellow quilts were all the rage?  I do and I have lots more blue and yellow in my stash.  That's when I made my first Yellow Brick Road quilt.  Hummm... That pattern came out in 2000.  It is the all time top selling pattern.  

Oh Where, Oh Where have my Daffodils Gone?

Somewhere under our 6 inches of snow are the sweet tips of my daffodils.  


Here is my sweet show and tell of what I got accomplished this weekend with my "Snow Day"!!  Hip Hip Hurrah!!
I have enjoyed every minute of my personal retreat. 

Did I see a snowflake in the forecast for next week.  I think so :)

Each block is finished at 5 inches and the quilt top is 30 x 30.

These Ice Blue strings are cut wonky and crooked.  I still used phonebook pages as my foundation.  They too are finished at 5 inches and the quilt top is 25 x 30 inches.  I can't wait to get these quilted tomorrow.  With the temperature going to be just 10 degrees, you won't see me out on the road. 

I really didn't know what I would get done with the mess of strings that I posted about on Friday.  It seems like I didn't even make a dent in the pile.

Here is a peek at my street!!

Next week I am going to try and use my precious Amy Butler, Heather Bailey, Tina Givens and Kaffe Fassett strings.  Ohhh it's gonna be hard.  I just love them so!!