Hands 2 Help

Thank you everyone for your compliments and congratulations on the Dear Jane quilt yesterday I do appreciate it but there were too many thank everyone individually – Thank you!!

Every year Sarah over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict has a big drive for charity quilts.  This year 3 charities were chosen and the quilter picks out which (or all) that they wish to donate to.  I picked Layers of Hope-Quilting 911 – donation of quilts go to the 911 operators and members of their families that are sick.  Sometimes I think we forget that a lot of 911 operators have a job that is very stressful and help us all a great deal in our times of need!  This is one way to pay them back.

I worked on these two scrap quilts late last year and early this year and put them aside for this charity.  They are both child size quilts.

I have managed to get quite of a bit of progress on Winter Wonderland the last week – 5 minutes of stitching here and there and my two small blocks were finished.  Here they are added to the design floor – I have two more to do that go across the top – both are long.  When the blocks are all connected they show some decorative stitching that separates the blocks – I am thinking of doing that part with the sewing machine and red thread.  I am linking to Super Mom No Cape’s link for projects with embroidery.  I am also linking to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching which I forgot to do yesterday.

I didn’t even notice until after I took these photos that the last two blocks I did I hadn’t reversed when I traced them – good thing it really doesn’t make a difference in the design – because I’m not making them over again!

Also this last week I had been working on Granny’s Got Style and hadn’t posted photos of it this past weekend –  these are in the 4th row of blocks.

I hope to get back to the tumblers this week but I also plan to finally get to work varnishing the walls & trim of the dinning room that were not finished in the winter as it was too chilly to have the windows open to air the house out – then it got too rainy – now it will probably be humid but between having windows open part of the time and A/C running the other I hope to get this work done in the dining room and kitchen over the next couple weeks starting with the dining room.  I will not work for hours and hours at it or my neck muscles will tense up too much so I will still be sewing and quilting too.  I do hope to have it done over the next several weeks.