The minute I saw this quilt in the Tin Can Raffle at the Tri-County Quilt Show, I knew it had my daughter's name written all over it. I was right because I won it for her. She loves it.
I made her a black and white quilt for her high school graduation in 1997, and it has been loved to death for the last 21 years. It was definitely time for a replacement.
The Monday Night Divas Bee met for Dinner at Saltgrass Steakhouse and our annual Gift Exchange. Getting eleven ladies together during the holidays is difficult, so we opted for January. Good food and laughter with friends is always time well spent.
These are the gift bags that I gave to each Diva.
Each one contains a fat quarter, a notebook that I made and a wax fabric marker.
I, also, created the flowers from book pages and spray ink.
Saturday sew-in at Quiltworks with the Monday Night Divas. I was able to finish a quilt top for the nursing home. We are distributing to the Nursing Homes on Tuesday so I will finish this quilt up for 2018.
Sewing rows together.
Halfway finished.
Top finished.
I was able to finish this quilt and turn it in for distribution on Tuesday. Is was made from a kit provided by the Charity Bee of my Quilt Guild.
I used a flip and sew method to assemble and straight line quilting to finish.
Donna is a long time member of The Monday Night Divas Bee. She completed a quilt earlier this year with a great back story.
Donna was an exchange student during one year of high school. She lived with Oma in Belgium and has remained close throughout the years. Donna collected t-shirts from Oma's Grandchildren (and a few from Texas) and made her a king size quilt.
Earlier this year, Donna was able to travel to Belgium and give Oma her quilt for her 80th birthday. Oma uses it to cover her living room couch, so everyone that enters her home can enjoy it. She was surprised and delighted.
That is Oma on the right.
close up
Quilt on couch.
Note the two pillows and pillowcase with photos.
Another family member had this fabric made by a website like Spoonflower.
I belong to a Quilting Bee called "The Monday Night Divas". In the past, we have exchanged 2 1/2" strips twice, so we got brave and decided to exchange blocks.
The block is scrappy. The only rules are each block must contain a piece of burgundy fabric and no obvious holiday fabrics.
We will exchange April - December. Each Diva should end up with 99 blocks. We are turning in extra blocks to be used in a charity quilt for our Quilt Guild.
Below are the blocks that I turned in.
April Block
May Block
June Block
July Blocks
I finally remembered to take a photo before I turned them in.
Diva Tina suggested this exchange and got her idea from this youtube video.
