A different challenge - a Pandemic Quilt

 In December of 2020, Rachel Hauser, of Stitched in Color" posted on her blog with a challenge to join her in making a quilt to reflect the many emotions of that year and presenting it to someone special.  Here is the initial blog post of the sew along she proposed:

 https://www.stitchedincolor.com/blog/2020/12/4/-healing-art-for-2020

Since we were in a pandemic and had lots of time on our hands, and I had lots of fabric, I thought I'd try my hands at this and make the quilt for my daughter in law, Becky, who works in a nursing home and has certainly dealt with many challenges!  At our ladies Bible study at Church, we were studying Nancy Guthrie's book, "Looking for Something Better" which is a study of the book of Hebrews. The first task was choosing fabrics for the various rows.  These were my final colour choices:

I didn't have quite enough of a few of the fabrics but a quick online purchase remedied that!

The final quilt.  It was presented to Becky in the summer of 2021.  I had taken pictures and couldn't find them back so finally got a few news ones!

The backing is a Kaffe Fasset print which I have had in my stash for awhile.

My friend, Chris Bogart quilted it with an angel wings pantograph which really suited it.

This photo shows the colours a bit better.

The label on the back of the quilt.

Pin Cushion Frenzy

Summer has begun officially and school's out so we are in the garage fixing and testing sewing machines.  We haven't been able to ship out any sewing machines for charity for two years now, so we had quite an accumulation.  We decided to start with servicing and testing those machines as we met a lady who has connections to ship them out to developing countries!  Jake serviced a good dozen machines and I tested 11 of them so far.  I decided to make some pin cushions as that's a great small project to tackle different machines that have various presser feet sizes.  So, my pin cushion jar is full again!  Here are the pin cushions I made: 

These three pin cushions were in a magazine I bought earlier this year.  I had the tops completed but finished them finally this week.  These are quite large so they hold a lot of pins.  We were given some emery shavings and I googled that for use in pin cushions.  Two of these have emery in them.  We'll see if the pins get sharper or not ☺!  It makes for a very heavy pin cushion!

Some selvage pin cushions were in order for Canada Day yesterday.

Canadian houses

I had a baggie of small scraps in these vintage florals...such happy pin cushions!

My huge glass canister is filled up again!

I might have room for a couple more ☺.

 

Prairie Children and Their Quilts

 I found this blog post in my drafts yet waiting for my sister to receive her little quilt in the mail!  And promptly forgot to write it up!!  I'm woefully behind on blogging.  

I started these two little quilts from a book Prairie Children and Their Quilts, many years ago and finally got them finished earlier this year.  I made two at a time and sent one little quilt off to my sister in BC and kept one here.  They are the perfect size for the American/Maplelea 18" dolls.

My sister's quilt

I used this vintage print for the back of both of the little quilts.

I kept this quilt.  Nice to get another UFO completed!