Quilts Flying Out the Door

Packing our house for a move prompted me to document ALL of the finished quilts stored in various places. I tagged the ones that wanted new homes and talked to friends, relatives and neighbors.

Six quilts given away on one day felt great! My friend Patty loves and uses my quilts, and took some as gifts: Aqua Tumblers, Flower Baskets (a group quilt, red flowers), Love All Around, Purple/Blue Hourglass (pattern test), Diabolical Jane and Purple 1-Patch Wonder.

A young neighbor was offered Cake Stand, a quilt made from 1930's reproductions in 2000, or at least it was quilted then. It had never been used. She spied a smaller lap quilt - the Jelly Roll Race and took that too.

Another neighbor chose Scrap Vortex, a recent finish: twelve 12" blocks from a great tutorial at Crazymomquilts.blogspot.com. She also took Diamond Box - all blues and greys with spiral quilting - she is from Alaska and it does make you think of glaciers.

Scrap Vortex, 48" x 36"

A cousin took Ocean Waves, another group quilt with various blue and blue-green blocks and pale blue kona as the background, and Hourglass , with blue, green and light yellow blocks with curved quilting in each hourglass. One of the fabrics had little recycle symbols on it.

Red Charity Strings,quilted with wavy lines, binding finished by a friend this summer. Layout wasn't the original plan, lesson learned. It's still cozy and includes a piece backing of 6 1/2" strips - full WOF + half WOF . And yet, the red fabric bin is still STUFFED.

Red Charity Strings, 80" x 60"

E's Purple Quilt, quilted with Square Spirals, made this summer for a family member..

Purple Log Cabin, 85" x 72"