Red White and Blue Block Drive Finishes

Happy Friday, quilters! I have a fun finish to show you from last year's "Family Ties" red, white, and blue block drive. This one was made and sent in finished by our quilter Linda with a nice swirly leaf panto. 

This one was a really fun block drive and we didn't get tooooo many blocks, which is a nice change from time to time. 

We've had an awesome new volunteer join us recently. Becky M., who lives further south in Texas, has been taking boxes of blocks and assembling them into tops. Those tops come back to me and get boxed up with backings and shipped to various quilters. 

These two were both quilted by Kathy G. The CiL pipeline never stops flowing!

These patriotic backings were donated by my local quilt store.

Thank you to all the volunteers who make this possible!

This was a small block drive, but you all made up for it with the HUGE potato chip block drive. Those quilts are coming soon and they look great. Speaking of block drives, the latest one is linked at the bottom of the post if you haven't made any blocks yet!

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1600 so far! The Summer 2025 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Suzanne's tops

Happy Friday, Quilters! Almost a year ago 2 friends worked together to make 5 quilts top for CiL, they even shipped a bolt of fabric for backing. We seem to have finished all of Suzanne's quilt tops first, so Kathy's will be upcoming. This first one is Suzanne's top quilted by Linda. 

This next mosaic top was also made by Suzanne and was quilted by Doris on her long arm. Thank you to all our volunteers!! 

Becky M. has recently started to help with assembling blocks into tops and she's done most of the Scrappy Mountains blocks from the block drive earlier in the year. I can't wait for you to see them, they look so good!

The current block drive is linked at the bottom of this post. These are larger blocks than we usually do so the tops will be different to assemble. One finished quilt has already been sent in and looks very cool. 

This last quilt is again top by Suzanne, quilted by Linda, with one of my favorite spiral pantos. 

Here is another of my recent pottery painting projects. I've been experimenting with ways to incorporate quilty designs.

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1600 so far! The Summer 2025 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Quilting by Doris

Hello quilters! Happy Friday.  I have two quilts this week from one of CiL's long arm quilters Doris.  This first quilts top was donated by Becky and then quilted by Doris. The second quilt is one of Doris' own that she donated to us.

How does time seem to pass so quickly? Summer is almost over and the nights are finally getting  cooler. Today is the kitty baby's estimated birthday and they are turning 7 years old. All of your quilts continue to be a blessing to families in the hospital. 

I love the wavy quilting panto on this very patriotic quilt.   Red white and blue quilts are consistently some of our most popular. 

Outside of quilting, I've gotten into the hobby of pottery painting. I painted this octo-mug a few weeks ago and was so pleased with how it came out!

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1600 so far! The Summer 2025 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Meeting Friends

Happy Friday Quilters! Recently I was fortunate enough to meet one of CiL's quilters in real life! Linda has been quilting for CiL since 2020 and has quilted over 150 quilts for us on her longarm. 

The two quilts in this post are some of her own that she has donated. It was wonderful after years of emails and boxes going back and forth to actually meet. We browsed a quilt shop and had lunch after she was kind enough to pick me up from the airport. 

It's always a treat whenever I get to meet volunteers in person!

The babies went to the vet recently for a check up. They are almost 7 so I figured it was a good idea. Sundae's thyroid is fine, she's just fat. We're continuing to work on it. (I do have 2 carriers, but they prefer to be together.)

 Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1600 so far! The Summer 2025 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Love from Oregon

Hello everyone, I'm sorry for being MIA for a month. No good excuse, but I did have several trips in close succession. My family takes an annual trip to the beach, which I always look forward to. I always wear a sun shirt and trunks and I'm diligent with the sunscreen, so I managed to get away with only a sunburn on the backs of my hands.

All of these quilts were sent to us by Lynn in Oregon who had ended up with the leftover stock from several charity quilt drives. We are happy to make sure they go to good use in the spirit they were donated!

With the delivery of these to the hospital Covered in Love reached 1730 quilts donated. I never could have imagined when I started this that we would one day be approaching 2000 quilts.

The latest block drive blocks are coming in we've had several wonderful new volunteers join to help assemble and quilt blocks, which is really a relief and a huge help.

Hopefully I'll be back to posting regularly for a while!

 Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1600 so far! The Summer 2025 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

More Hugs from Lori

Happy Friday, Quilters! This week's post is a round up of the last of the quilts that Lori sent in to us, starting with this flannel rail fence.

Things continue fairly well here. I took 30+ quilts up to the hospitals last week. 

My parents' garden is going wild and I've been experimenting with "sun drying" tomatoes in the oven. 

I got a new cat feeder for Sundae that meters out a precise amount of kibble 6 times a day. She has already learned the sound of it and is starting to predict the schedule. 

Hope you're staying cool and enjoying summer wherever you are!

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1600 so far! The Summer 2025 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Mina's Village

Happy Friday, quilters! Hope you're all well. This week I have several of Mina's signature village quilts to show. This first one she sent in already finished.

These next two were tops sent in by Mina and quilted by Sundance Quilting. I love them because they're bright with lots of little things to look at, and because it's a reminder of how much we all need our "village" to get through hard times.

Someone donated me this rainbow fabric that made the perfect backing for these cheery quilts. You zoom in on this one you might be able to see the panto of umbrellas and clouds.

My poor Sundae girl continues to struggle with her weight. She's like a furry watermelon. As they are coming up on 7 years old I really want to keep her in good health. Has anyone had any luck with a particular food for helping cats lose weight?

It's not fair that brother got a good metabolism and she has to count kibbles :(

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1600 so far! The Summer 2025 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday