The last of the donation quilts in this batch for the Houma Guild to give to the children’s home.
This is one of my favorite borders. There’s a little guide to making this quilt and this border here.
More Donation Quilts
March 7, 2010
These quilts were already finished and will be donated next week to the Cane Cutters Guild in Houma, LA to go to the children’s home they support. All are in the 60″ x 80″ size range. These three have been shown here before but one last time .. here they are before finding new homes.
This is one that was done as a Quilt for an Hour project and is in Weekend Quilts with a different pieced border.
And, this last quilt, I have to tell you a funny story about it. Probably 6 or 8 years ago, the quilt shop had a beautiful Jim Shore fabric with Christmas santas on it. I bought enough for a backing and came up with this design to make for the top. It was quick and easy and great for a quilt I’d only bring out at Christmas. Used colors that were in the Jim Shore fabric – green, gold, purple, deep red. But, once I made the top, I totally forgot about the Jim Shore backing fabric and used something else. Later, I realized . . Wait a minute! That was supposed to have the Jim Shore fabric on the back. Too late. So, this quilt is being donated. It will help keep someone warm and I’ll eventually make myself a quilt and use that Jim Shore backing.
Once I finish the binding on the quilt I’m working on today, that will be 10 quilts ready to go to the Cane Cutters Guild in Houma and 10 quilts was my goal to donate to them in 2010. I will see some of the Houma ladies in Baton Rouge and handing the quilts to them will save shipping costs. Now it’s time to get crackin’ on the 10 QOV quilts I plan to donate this year.
Electric Files to Download
December 23, 2009
Over on my sidebar, down under “Free Patterns and Projects”, near the bottom of that section, you’ll see “Electric Quilt Files to Download”. You do need EQ6 to open the files. For some designs, I offer patterns, for some I offer the project to download.
During the coming months I plan to do many quilts that I think are quick. Some always question what’s quick and what isn’t when I say something is quick so . . you’ll have to be the judge on each design. Because my main quilting goal in 2010 is to use a huge chunk of stash and make bunches of donation quilts, most of these will be in the 60″ x 80″ range but you can make them any size you choose. There will probably be more EQ files to download than written patterns to share . . just so I can get more quilting time instead of writing and testing patterns.
If you don’t have EQ, get it! And . . learn to use it! 
In the coming months, I hope to give you good reasons to at least be able to open the projects.
The Library Ladies Have Spoken
September 24, 2009
I believe the library ladies did read at least some of your comments so maybe your votes did count . . a little bit. They have chosesn #2.
Quilt #2
This quilt will be sent to Southeast Texas to help raise money for a library that was devastated in Hurricane Ike. Hope it brings you lots of money!
