Shirley's QOV, plus two others

Taking you back to Nov 5th/2022 when I quilted this lap size quilt for Shirley who coordinates the quilts for Quilt of Valour (QOV).  I quilted this with maple leaves, using a pattern called Maple Sugar.  I use this pantograph often.  I enjoyed flinging this quilt on a bed of leaves in my back yard.  It looks so nice in an autumn scenery.  The leaves were still falling from the tree above and landed on the edges of the quilt.

At the same time that Shirley brought me this quilt, she brought me these next two quilts.  

Both are the same block, that makes up the quilts, just one has borders and the second one doesn't.  It is a simple quilt block and helps use up scrap chunks.  I took the first picture on the flagstones and the second again in the leaves.

Two more quilts went off to veterans.  It makes me feel good to help out by quilting quilts for QOV.

My design wall this month (May/2023)

Yesturday was the beginning of a new month.  I've been missing my time to play in my sewing room these past couple of months.  Taking any little snippets of time I can find.  I've caught up on things around here...or at least the things that have deadlines.  I still have too much to do, but this month I plan to take some more time for me.  Life is too short not to enjoy it, so I am looking to take more time to do some handwork and some machine sewing.  I have a bucket list of quilts I want to do and they won't get done if I don't start them.

This month I also host a workshop for the HHQG on the pineapple block in paper piecing.  So far there will be 15 in attendance with room only for another 3.  Looking forward to it, as this will be the first time since covid started in Mar/2020, that we are getting together.  Can you believe it's been 3yrs!

So, to mark the beginning of this month, I changed up my design wall.  Here is what I have on it now.  I still have the Rhododendron Trail quilt underneath everything.  On top of it, I decide to take out my hexagon quilt.  I am itching to get back to this one.  I am really getting there with it, though I haven't really touched it since October when we headed to the family reunion on a 2 1/2 hour drive up and back.  It's good handwork time.  

As you can see, I only have the bottom righthand corner to do, and a bit of the bottom border.  Yeah!!

On the left of this I hung up the bottom border to keep it safe.  Beside it, I have the Kaleidoscope quilt, the red spiderweb quilt and a few blocks of various other quilts on the go.  I think I am going to try and push forward with the hexagon quilt, however I still have five labels to make for my nieces and nephews, so we will see what I can do.

Take care everyone and don't forget to take some time for yourself.