412 Days

That is how long it has been since I was last here.  

I have been making things but .......

I have been working on three BOMs, Ella Maria Deacon, 365 Littles, and Heartfelt.  I have decided that it is not good for me to work on three at the same time.  I haven't had a finish in a bit.  I am slow at keeping up and have learned that I need to focus on one thing at times to keep the energy going.  

So, I decided to make three little boy quilts.  They are quicker to reach the done point.  The first is for a give away to a 2 year old boy and his family (friends of daughter #2).  This is an I SPY quilt.  I bought the panel, cut up the parts, put it back together with sashing and borders.  The sandwich was made with a flannel backing.  Very simple machine quilting and all done in a week.  Enjoy it Dylan.

The next two were made for my great nephews.  My sister, their Grandmother, found the World map and asked me if I would make it into a quilt for Corbin, age 4.  I said yes (but she had to order me a panel also).  This was a quick put together but the machine quilting was a bit fussier.  I quilted around the animals and then made longitude and latitude lines on the map.  I used a constellation material for the background.  

You cannot make one map quilt for one brother and not the other.  I was able to find this panel, a map of the United States.  This is for Gibson, age 2.  Again I quilted around the animals and then the states.  Even tiny Rhode Island was quilted around.  Then there was a piano border around the map.  This has a planet backing (my sister did not take a picture of the back).

I was so excited to send off the quilts that I forgot to take pictures.  My sister sent the pictures to me after their arrival. 

Other projects have been completed and some new starts.  I will return and get them recorded on this blog.

May your day be sunny and warm.  We have rain, again, and it is a cloudy grey.