My Blocks for Boston

I made 4 blocks for the Boston Modern Quilt Guild's project, Quilts for Boston.  They put out a request for blocks so they could make quilts for the Boston Marathon bombing victims.   http://bostonmqg.blogspot.com/2013/04/quilts-for-boston.htmlQuilt 

All of my blocks are from volumes of Quiltmaker 100 Blocks issues.

This one is called Texas Circle Around by Lynn Roddy Brown, Volume 1.

This is called Boxed In by Julie Herman, Volume 2.

 

 

This is called Bingo by Jessie Kurtz, Volume 5.

 

 

From the flicker group it looks like the Guild received a good response for their request for blocks, and some quilters were very creative. 

 

Have a wonderful weekend.

 

God Bless You.



Today is Worldwide Quilting Day

Here I am at home sewing alone, but in fact, I am probably sewing with , perhaps millions or is that too high an estimate, of other quilters around the world.  There isn't a quilt shop in my area, but quilt shops everywhere are hosting activities to celebrate this event.  Bloggers, too.

This is what I'm working on today;  Putting a hanging sleeve on a log cabin quilt I made from my Little Quilts All Through the House book ( one of my first quilts and now I want to hang it,)  a mini quilt to replace my Valentine mini quilt and my America the Beautiful quilt that is still in the 'stitch in the ditch' stage. 

 

 What's appropriate about this mini quilt is that the fabric is aTy Pennington strip set that I won from Quiltmaker and the quilt block is from Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks edition Volume 1. 

 I have taken two Craftsy courses; one by Cindy Needham and one by Ann Petersen and both advocate ditch stitching before any decorative quilting is begun.  But on this quilt I think I will never get to the decorative quilting stage:)

One place you can join in with other quilters online today is SewCalGal's qal.  http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/  Join us if you can.

 

God Bless You

and

Happy Worldwide Quilting Day!