Another Senior's quilt

Awhile ago, I found this wonderful panel at a quilt shop which had old hymns printed on it.  I started with this Amazing Grace panel and added colours around it from the panel.  The flying geese were from a pattern called Panel Pizzazz by Patti Carey and worked well for adding a fairly wide border.  This quilt is going to another senior from my Church.  I was happy to find all the fabrics I needed in my stash ☺.

The finished quilt.  The colours are a little off, but it was too snowy and cold to take pictures outside!

I loosely mimicked the pattern in the panel for quilting in the blank space.

I found a batik piece in my stash that matched the colour in the panel perfectly.

 

Senior's Quilts Progress

Two more seniors' quilts were finished in January and I had a lovely visit with the two ladies when bringing their quilt over.  I found a panel depicting old hymns at the fabric shop in Stratford last fall.  This was a perfect jumping off point for the seniors' quilts.  The pattern is adapted from "Panel Pizzazz" by Patti Carey of Patti's Patchwork.  Click on the photo to enlarge to see the hymn panel.

 

Margaret's Quilt

Ruth's Quilt

 As I was making a list of the next senior quilt I want to make, I realized I hadn't  posted a quilt I gifted to Bertha after she moved to a new apartment in 2021.  So, here is her quilt and it also finished up an old UFO that I had done for a class sample many years ago.

Bertha's quilt

Another Senior's quilt

 My aunt Mary is moving to a new apartment at the end of January, so this was a perfect time to make her a quilt to take along.  I was shopping with a friend of mine and we came across this panels with sheep in the colours that Mary loves. I added the borders to it and quilted it mostly along the images in the panel.  

I used a pattern called Gathering by Sugar Pine Quilt Designs, Bonnie Bechtol, adapting it to the size of this panel.

motifs quilted in the 'mountains'

I love these sheep and the comforting Bible verse on this panel

It was quilted around the trees and fence

 

Another Peaked insert quilt

Forgot that I hadn't blogged this peaked insert quilt either!  I made this one for a friend going through some health issues back in April!  She loves flowers so I found this 'panel' in my stash and cut it and added a purple sashing to make it big enough to equal a panel.  It really turned out like "spring" 🙂.

 (click on the photo to enlarge)

Single panel...they were printed two beside each other which was the perfect size.

Finished quilt

I quilted this one overall with a funky flower pattern

Found a fun polka dot with all the colours for a backing and a perfect stripe for the binding. Amazing what's in the stash 😀

Comfort Quilts

At our small quilt group, Hearts and Hands of Elgin County, we make lap quilts for the chemo unit of the our local hospital.  One of our members is a nurse in that unit and is our liaison and helps distribute the quilts and keeps us informed when we need more.  Each person going through chemo at the hospital receives a quilt to comfort them as they go through a very difficult time.  And, for our group, it gives us a chance to try out different patterns and use up our stash or the fabrics donated by many people to the cause.  I recently finished up three quilts.  (Click on the photos to enlarge them for a better view.)

This pattern is called Peaked Inserts and was taught to us by a friend.  It's a great pattern for using panels or scenery fabrics. I bought the duck fabric at another guild rummage sale for $3.00 for two yards of it :-).

I quilted this one with a simple wavy line design which worked up quickly using my free motion foot on my Bernina 830.

Found a perfect fabric in the clearance bin with weeds on it.

This quilt originally was meant for a back for the quilt pictured below.  The pinwheels are made from the corner cut offs of the star quilt.  But, the back turned out so nice that several ladies said it needed to be a front.  So I found backing for both and we ended up with two quilts.

The star quilt was made by all the ladies that attended a quilt retreat last November.  It was quilted by my neighbour, Chris who has a long arm machine. 

I found some jelly bean fabric in my stash for the new backing which wasn't quite enough and pieced it with a peach strip which matched the colours perfectly.

I quilted this one with funky flowers on my vintage Bernina 830.