Two NICU quilts for Project Linus

Today, I dropped off all the quilts for Project Linus.  My mom and I gathered our quilts, plus some from others and delivered them.  

I thought I would share with you these two NICU quilts that were part of the bags that went out.  Both of these quilts were made back in May/2025.  

This first one was made to try out a technique.  The pattern details for the technique is in the second picture below.  I decided to make this one in NICU size, because I only wanted to try it out.  Making a small quilt is a great way to try something and not have to commit to a whole quilt, using a lot of fabric and using up your time, for something you may or may not enjoy doing.

The blocks went together quite easily.  By making this little quilt, I came to the conclusion that, I am not going to invest my time, and fabric to make a full quilt.  The part that stopped me was that the blocks in the pattern are put on point, which means, you make a full block and then cut off a chunk on the sides, plus top and bottom.  To me that is just a waste of fabric, or I would have to come up with a way to use up all these extra pieces.  I wasn't up to it, this time.  Otherwise, as you can see in the picture below, it is a beautiful modern quilt.  I gave the pattern to a friend who will make it!

 

The second NICU quilt was a very simple one to make.  It basically looks like a checkerboard.  I made this with all of my blue and neutral 2" scrap squares, and I assembled them as leader/enders, between making other quilts.  A simple quilt that ended up to be 26" square.

Stay turned for tomorrow's post, where I want to share with you some beautiful pictures.  They're of some quilts from the Waterloo quilt show, that I went to yesturday.  There were sooooooo many quilts.  I only captured some, that I will share with you.  I think I'll do it in two different posts, so that I don't crash, of overload.

Take care everyone.