36..37..38..39..40 donation quilts!

Forty donation quilts are done and ready to be gifted later this year. Actually two have already been gifted. 

I finished 3 of these quilts at a summer retreat. We had gorgeous weather after the extremely warm first day. From my rocking chair on the porch where I worked on a binding,

I enjoyed a view of the barn,

and the hammock swaying in the breeze.

Here are the most recent finishes:

Blue Bugs with Yellow uses the rest of the bug material from my late friend, Colleen. 

The backing is a soft multi color fabric with yellow, blue, orange, green, and more.

I quilted a figure eight motif in the sashing, a double loop in the corner stones, and meandering in the blue areas.

Size:        46" by 51"

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top - Lemon Ice #80607, Blueberry #30281

                back - Lemon Ice #80607

Batting:    Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:   Figure 8 in the sashing, double loop in the cornerstones,

                meandering for the rest

  

Orange with White on Point has just two blocks. The two blocks are the same with the fabrics switched. A block has a center square surrounded by the other fabric and two small cornerstones matching the center fabric. The blocks are placed on point with the cornerstones together.

The backing is turquoise (which I seem to have used for many backs lately). I quilted this with meandering.

This quilt uses most of the leftover white with turquoise and orange fabric left from some Native American quilts.

Size:        60" by 60"

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top - Linen #10WG1

                back - Lt Turquoise #32975

Batting:    Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:   Meandering

Simply Squares - Stars and Pink is another Simple Squares Quilt. The lighter squares are stars in soft colors. I used it for a backing once but had a lot left.

I quilted this with string of loops.

The backing is a soft multi color with pink, purple, blue, and more.

Size:        56" by 56"

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, Baby Blue #30290

Batting:    Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:   String of loops

 

 

Swimmers 2 has blue and orange borders. It uses the rest of the swimmers fabric from Colleen. The backing is teal.

The fabric is darling. Like Swimmers 1, I left the fabric in a large piece and just added two borders, this time, orange and purple.

The purple border has a loop de loop quilted, the inner border has a string of loops, and the main body has meandering.

Size:         41" by 47"

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top - Blueberry #30281, Lt Turquoise #32975

                 back - Lt Turquoise #32975

Batting:    Dream Cotton  

Quilting:   purple border - Loop de Loop

                orange border - String of Loops 

                body of quilt - meandering

Simple Squares - Red and Blue with Colored Squares is one of the larger quilts in the Simply Squares Series at 56" by 72".

The back is a turquoise that matches the turquoise in the navy block on the front.

The navy with the colored squares was used as a backing once, It's nice to have just a few small scraps left now. I quilted this with double loops.

Size:        56" by 72"

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top -  Ruby #70187

                back - Lt Turquoise #32975

Batting:    Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:   Double Loops

I’ve really enjoyed this project—turning leftover fabric from my stash into 40 donation quilts. It has reduced my stash a bit! There are still a few donation quilts kitted that I hope to finish in time to deliver in late fall. 

July finishes

Life has been a little busy around here but I do have three more donation quilts finished. Two are Simply Squares Quilts. It may be hard to believe but there are still more Simply Square Quilts to come.

Simply Squares - Orange with Black Print is 56" square. 

You can see the double loop quilting here.

I found an orange fabric for backing that almost matches the orange on the front. 

Size:         56" by 56"

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top - Autumn #50172

Batting:     Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:    Double Loop

Simply Squares - Bugs is 48" square. When I was kitting quilts, I must have been interrupted in the middle of cutting this one (or I can't count!). When I began to sew, I found that I did not have enough pieces. I had already cut another quilt with the leftover bug fabric, so I used the squares I had. This is the smallest Simply Squares quilt. 

The sting-of-loops quilting shows the gold.

The back for this quilt is a soft multi-colored fabric that I recently found.

Size:            48" by 48"

Thread:       Glide 50-wt, Lemon Ice #80607

Batting:        Dream Cotton                                           

Quilting:       Sting of Loops

Swimmers 1 uses fabric that I acquired from my friend Colleen's stash when she passed away. I thought the print was cute, so I didn't want to cut it up. However, the piece was large, so I decided to make two quilts. Swimmers 2 is coming. 

The body of the quilt is quilted with a horizontal meander.

I used fabric from my stash to add two borders - one yellow and one dark blue. I quite a loop-de-loop motif on the blue border and waves on the yellow one.

The teal back is from my stash.

Size:         44" by 48"

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top - 

                    Blue border - Blueberry #30281

                    Yellow border - Lemon Ice #80607

                    Body -  Lt Turquoise #32975

                back - Lt Turquoise #32975

Batting:    Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:   Blue Border - Loop de Loop

                Yellow Border - Waves

                Body - Horizontal Meander

I now have 35 finished quilts to donate this year. I''ll be on retreat soon and may finish hand sewing the binding on more quilts. However, I may decide to just work on something different. Yesterday I ignored the piles of quilts in progress and started this new one - it just felt right!