First of the Potato Chip Quilts

Happy Friday, Quilters!  The first of the quilts from our potato chips block drive have started to be completed. This quilt top was made by Bonnie and quilted by Linda.

You can see the quilting panto more clearly from the back 

Next top by Edna, quilted by Linda. Things continue to go along well here. I recently to a big delivery of quilts to the two Tyler hospitals. As flu season is starting along with an uptick in covid they are unfortunately busy. 

The cats and I are well. They're really enjoying more catio time as the weather gets less hot. They're spectating my dad working on building a garage.

This last one was made and quilted by Linda herself. I really like how scrappy and cozy they're coming out. These kind of quilts are perfect for men or women and almost everyone likes them.

Linda made her quilt in an autumnal color scheme, perfect for this season. Our local harvest festival is in a couple weeks, the Sweet Potato Festival.  I hope you've got something fun coming up, too!

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

Mel Quilts

Happy Friday, everyone! Meloney down in south Texas recently returned these three quilts that she quilted and bound for CiL.

This first top was sent in my Kathy B. I really like this scrappy basket weave pattern. I know I've thought about using it in a block drive before. 

This Red white and blue top is from Heather. I'm not sure if the hexy flowers were a functional necessity to cover up some kind of issue or just added for fun, but I like them.

This last scrappy blue top is from Priscilla. What do you think of the little punches of green, red, and orange? I wouldn't have thought to do that but I love how they jump out.

My 90-year-old great aunt passed away recently and her favorite color was blue. She had a steel blue casket picked out. She was a feisty little lady, I wouldn't mind being like her if I get to that age

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

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