Halloween Photo Booth

My Son was asked to come up with and bring to life a Halloween Carnival for children.  He and I came up with 8-10 game ideas.  They needed to be mentally and physically therapeutic. I will not bore you with all the detail, but my favorite was the Photo Booth.

David was on line and found a flag that he liked, but it was no longer available.  So, we decided to make it out of wood and paint.

4' x 8'

We got creative in our front yard with the skeleton crew.  At the carnival, the skeletons were sitting in lawn chairs and the children loved them.

You are probably thinking, what does this have to do with quilting.  The math was tricky, but my long quilting ruler (with multiple markings) and blue tape were the perfect solution for marking all those lines.  Bless the person that invented blue tape.  It marked my ruler and after David painted the board orange, it taped off the lines to paint the black stripes. 

 I, also, used my ruler and blue tape to mark a 4' x 4' Plinko board.  David had the fun of  hammering all those nails in.  This is before the top was painted different colors and the bottom tray was added.

This is a picture of one of our neighbor's yard.  Look closer in the pumpkin area.  There is a skeleton coming out of the lawn and two skeletons climbing the fence.  Too cute!

Charity Quilts

These are the two charity quilts that I made for my Quilt Guild this year.  I made lap quilts for the nursing homes that we adopt each year.  I helped deliver 50 quilts to the memory and assisted living residents of one facility and 100 quilts to assisted living residents in another facility.  We all grab 3 or 4 quilts and walk around the room and allow each person to pick one to keep.  It is like a quilt show for the residents.  If the resident is bed ridden, we go room to room with several quilts to choose from.

This one has golf items on it.  There are more and more men in these facilities.  They like sports, animals, birds and masculine colors sometimes.

I made the center of this quilt from 3 1/2" strips.  I was seeing if I liked the process of the jellyroll quilt before using up one of my precious jellyrolls. 

This quilt was chosen by a man.

I used straight line quilting on this.  I really liked doing the quilting and how it turned out.

Amelia's Quilt

My Husband and I have known Catalina for about 6 years or so, through work.  She lives in Colombia and works from home, but travels to Texas or wherever needed to work on projects when needed.

She had a Daughter last year, named Amelia.  I made a quilt for Amelia but waited for her Mom to visit Texas, earlier this year, to give it to her.  Catalina's Husband and Amelia were to come along, but Amelia was not feeling well and the doctor recommended against it.  So, I had to get my baby fix through the many photos and videos that Mom came prepared with.

I sent Mom home with a quilt and Monkey playmat.  Amelia seems to be very fond of Monkey.

 

Batiks, 45" x 45"

Back

Striped Binding

Monkey Playmat (So Soft)

Satin belly

Amelia and Monkey

Sharon's Texas A & M Quilt

I made this quilt for Sharon, a young lady that I have known since birth.  She had just finished her third year at Texas A & M and was returning from studying abroad.  The biggest challenge was finding 6 different college themed fabrics. I had to visit my favorite quilt shop (Quiltworks), JoAnns, Hancocks and Walmart.  Everyone always asks where I got the camouflage.  It came from Walmart.

The quilt is 54" x 72".  It is made of 6 half yard pieces of fabric.

The back is Maroon and the binding is camouflage.

I neglected to get a picture of Sharon with her quilt.  We got to talking about her trip and looking at all the pictures that she had taken while studying and sightseeing in Europe and I forgot.

Katelin's Quilt

This quilt requires 6 half yard pieces of fabric.  I chose the fabric with flowers first and then pulled 5 of the colors to coordinate.

I made this quilt for my future daughter-in-law, Katelin.  Since we both like Blue, I had fun putting this together for her.

The back is a beautiful blue with gold touches.

The quilt is 54" x 72".

This is what my family calls a personal or couch quilt.  We are all 5'8" tall and over.  Katelin fits right in.

As you can tell by the Christmas decorations in the background, this was her 2015 Christmas Gift.  I am very behind in my blog postings.  

Disappearing Four Patch

I was watching a tutorial on the Disappearing Four Patch by Missouri Star Quilt Company this weekend.  http://quiltingtutorials.com/all/disappearing-4-patch-quilt-block-tutorial/  I just had to give it a try.  She used 5" squares, but I decided to use 10" squares. 

Sew four 10" squares into a four patch.

 



Cut 2" on both sides of the horizontal and vertical seams.



 

This is what it looked like after being cut.

Switch the top two squares.  Switch the bottom two squares. Turn the center four patch one turn to the left.

 

 



Sew back together.  Using 10" squares results in an 18 1/2"

 unfinished block.

Premmie Quilts for Charity

I am a little behind on my charity work, so I whipped up these three premmie quilts.  The quilts have to be 25" square and have Christmas fabric on one side and flannel on the other.

 I made one blue and two red.  The bottom shows the flannel side.