End of 2020 announcement 

Due to ongoing health issues,  I will no longer be doing longarm quilting for hire. Over the next few months,  I will contact anyone who has left a project with me to quilt and try to make arrangements to get it finished.  Thank you for your past business and your continued thoughts and prayers.  

Wishing everyone a safe and healthy new year!

Third Annual Birthday Benefit Brunch

 It was quite a different gathering this year with the pandemic raging and all the restrictions in place!  Masks were worn (see photo) but a good time was had by all. I have now received and quilted quilts from all those who said they had one for Quilts for Kids. Thanks are due also to my sister-in-law, Kim, who sent many quilts, and my amazing mother, who has sent me 16 quilts to date and is working on 4 more!  

Here is the gallery of finished quilts from the Brunch attendees and those invited who didn't attend but still brought or sent me a top to finish. Many thanks from Quilts for Kids and myself personally to Abigail, Anna, Bernie, Beth, Char, Emily, and Jane!!!  

 

A Tale of Two Quilts...and Two Quilters

My Mom, age 91 years young, was not real pleased with being told by the authorities to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic.  She is very independent! I  decided she might like to sew a quilt top, so as a surprise I had some pre-cut fabric and a few supplies sent to her from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.  And guess what? She did a great job! In fact,  she has made 2 tops so far. She was used to garment sewing so with an adjustment to her "normal" seam allowance she was good to go.  In the first top, she chose not to use the black pieces in her layer cake. To have enough fabric for the second top, she used them plus some other fabric I sent her. And she ended up really liking the look of the black!  It gives the second top a very sophisticated and modern look I think.  So here are the two finished quilts, which she's graciously donating to Quilts for Kids.  Thanks,  Mom!!

What's going on around here?

It's been about 4 months since I last posted and the world has certainly changed!  We're dealing with the COVID-19 virus now and on self-isolation as per local orders. Good time to catch up on my own projects,  do some charity longarm quilting,  and check in with the blog.

To begin, I made this quilt as a gift to my church for their annual fundraising auction.  Paired with a quilt rack, it sold for $1000!

Following that, I had a few customer quilts to work on, then I was contacted by a nearby Quilts of Valor group and quilted this for them.  

After finishing 32 quilts for Quilts for Kids and turning them in, I received 25 new tops to quilt for them. At that time I also had 5 quilts on hand, 4 sent by my awesome sister-in-law and one from a local friend. These 5 will eventually be quilted and given to Quilts for Kids.  The COVID-19 scare was just getting off the ground the day I got the 25 quilts, and so I decided to await developments and finish some of the projects I  had cut out.  So far I have completed 3 of the 6. One will probably get finished today and the other 2 have been put back in storage because they were only barely started. Here are the 3 tops finished; the heart and the other pink one are also quilted.

So that's the update. Stay well everyone!!