Hands2Help - Time to Check In!!

Hi, all!!


Sunday has rolled around again - and it's time to think about the Hands2Help challenge!!  So many of you have been talking about working on your H2H quilts - and I've even received one Canadian blogger's quilt for quilting!


So here's your chance to link up and show what you've been working on, or leave a comment telling everyone how it's going!  You can even link to an earlier post if you want....


I'll confess right now, I haven't started working on mine - I've been swamped with ministry quilt needs, so I've been negligent on the H2H front.   But I hope to correct that in the next week or so!

*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*

Now, though, I want to show you something gorgeous that I received in the mail last week....

Isn't that beautiful?  Quilt blogger, honorary quilt ministry member and fellow H2Her Sharon of Vrooman's Quilts pieced this gorgeous quilt, and then sent it to another H2Her, Sue of Sue Daurio's Quilting Adventures, for quilting!  Look at this beautiful piecing and quilting...

I have long admired Sharon's mad piecing skills, but I'd never had a chance to see Sue's quilting up close - and now that I have, I am so impressed!  I really want to be able to quilt like that someday!!  I took this quilt to church Wednesday night to show the ladies in my sewing group what "real" quilting looks like!!

This quilt now hangs in a place of honor in my house, in my dining room where we all meet to sew once a month, and proclaims to everyone who comes in my house, "A Quilter Lives Here!"  Thank you so much, Sharon and Sue - I am humbled and totally unworthy of this beautiful quilt, but I will cherish it forever!!!

*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*

OK  -  so now it's your turn.  Link up a blogpost or leave a comment telling how your H2H quilt is progressing!  Those of us who haven't even started yet want to know we're not alone, plus we want to see what everyone else is working on!!  You have until next Sunday, 4/22 to link up......

And be sure to check back next Sunday, when Miki Willa of Miki's Fabric Creations will be our guest blogger!!  

Hugs!

Sarah

Can I Get a Whoop-Whoop?? A Whirly Garden....

Hi, all!


It's Friday, and time to get your whoop whoop on!!!  Are you ready?  Well, even if you're not ready yet, you have until Sunday night to link up!!  Here's what I've been working on this week...

It's not completely finished - just a flimsy right now - but I had so much fun piecing this top!  The pattern is a soon-to-be-released Kate Conklin design called Whirly Garden.  Kate asked me to join a group of fellow quilters in proofing her pattern, and said it was ok to use it to make this quilt even though it hasn't been released yet.  I needed a quilt for a 12-year old girl with a rare disease called EBA, and I think this will fit her just perfectly!  Watch for the pattern to come out - it's awesome!!

So now it's your turn!!

What have you been working on this week?

It doesn't have to be a finish - 

Just something you're happy about!!

Share, so we can "whoop" you on!

Hugs!

Sarah

What's Cookin' at The Sweatshop, Week #26 - A Wide Variety...

Hi, all!


It's been a couple of weeks since I had time to post a Sweatshop update - babies are very distracting!!  But I've got a few pretties to share with you this week...

This first quilt was made using a center donated by Kate bordered with some vintage Irish linen from my grandmother's stash.  I love string blocks, and maybe someday I'll actually make some of my own - but I sure appreciate the ones that are donated to us!!  This one went to a lady in New Orleans who is dealing with multiple cancers.  She loves blue and I think this just fits the bill!!

This beautiful top was given to us by Annie, who saw it for sale on someone's blog and had it sent to us for the ministry.  Isn't it beautiful - very manly, all homespuns.  It now belongs to a man with lymphoma in New Orleans.

The center of this adorable I-Spy quilt was pieced by Margaret, and I added borders to make it large enough for its recipient, a six-year old boy who is having heart valve replacement surgery this week.

Aren't these I-Spy blocks great?  I believe they came from Diane, and there was even one with french fries and another with pickles!  So cute!!

This last quilt is my favorite for the week (probably because I got to make it from start to finish!)  It's a postage stamp quilt made with all batiks.  We received a donation of a wide variety of batik fabrics, so I think I used twenty-one different pieces.  This was a joy to make, and now I want to make lots more!!!  

It was given to a woman in our church who was just diagnosed with breast cancer.  This was totally unexpected for her, as there is no family history, and it was important to me to get a quilt to her quickly so she would have that constant reminder that many people are praying for her.   I hope it makes her smile every time she sees it!


So those are the quilts we've given out this week.  I'm currently got seven more quilts ready to go on the frame - there should be a big update next week!!  Thanks again for all your support - we couldn't do it without you!!


Hugs!


Sarah