Mom's give away quilts

I am still in the process of sorting out my photos from various devices to add into posts.  There are a lot.  I want to organize them in their own post, ready for me to write about them.  If I worked on one piece over the past year or two, I want to put them together and do one post of the different stages.

So instead, I will share with you some donation quilts my mom made recently.  I should have gotten some close up pictures....next time.  This first one is a NICU quilt measuring 26" square.  This was cute.  My mom made a fairies and princesses quilt for her great-granddaughter a while back.  She came across an extra block that was traced out and decided to finish it with embroidery.  She did a plain yellow border, surrounded by hour glass units in the various colours that were in the embroidered piece.   She added cornerstones to the hour glass units and finished it with a simple green border.  I am coming to realize that any photos that I took down in the basement did not turn out so great.  The colours are quite off.  You'll just have to trust me when I say that this is so cute in person.

For this next quilt, my mom cut out some 4" square from her scrap flannel.  We sorted it out in a checker board fashion with the darker squares and alternating lights.  The backing for this one is also flannel and a lofty batting.  The finished quilt is so cuddly cozy.

She dug deep into her boy coloured flannel strings bucket to make this next one.  She was inspired by a speaker we had presenting at our guild meeting a little while back.  This quilt is done in a quilt-as-you-go method.  

The process is, you have a flannel square for the bottom/backing, good side down, followed by a batting square on top of it, and you take your strings, the length measures half the square.  You sew this piece with another, on the one side, from middle to edges.  Sewing them side by side until that half of the block is covered.  Once those are done you take a larger string and lay it across the centre from corner to corner, with the edge covering the unfinished edge of the previous strings and work sideways until the batting is completely covered.

Once the squares are done, trim them down to size, keeping the diagonal string seam centred down the 45° angle line.  From there you can use your favorite method to put the blocks together.  My mother and I use the two sided binding method.

The great thing about the above quilt is that you can use up all your smaller pieces of batting and the quilt can be whatever size you want to make it, depending on how many blocks you make.  No worries about having a large enough backing or batting.  You can make block sandwiches to practice your free motion quilting and make a quilt out of them.

I plan on making a reversable quilt soon, with my quilting samples that didn't turn out.  I have been cutting the good parts out into smaller squares to make one.

Enjoy your evening.  Take care and keep safe.