Photo Friday

 I was unsuccessful in getting a post ready for today, so here's pics of what's been going on around here, instead. The little kittens are off the bottle, hallelujah! The orange kittens unfortunately got bumped from this flight up North. I took new glamour shots for their adoption photos.  

Jack

Mel

Robby

containment breach!

L-R Possum, Squirrel, and Badger

Big CiL donation from a 95y.o. "retiring" quilter

started a scrap project

"helping"

Stained glass class at the League of the Arts

Have a Good Week!

Priscilla & Quilters

Happy Friday, quilters! All of this week's quilt tops were made by Priscilla and finished by our lovely quilters. This first one was completed by Kathy with a wavy spiral.

These next two tops were quilted by Doris. I especially like the pattern of this one as a way to use scraps. The little diamonds look so neat sitting in the squares. 

This is a really cozy, scrappy quilt that will work well for a man or woman. Priscilla always makes great scrap quilts.

This one reminds me of Bonnie Hunter's Misty Mountains block in Fall colors. 

These last two were quilted by Linda. This one was a stack of blocks from Cali & Co Mystery block of the month 2025 that I assembled. Again, great scrappy colors.

I am still deep in kitten-rearing. My older litter of orange kittens are about 11 weeks old. The remaining 3 kittens and their mama are scheduled to be transported to a rescue up North next week. (Other parts of the country actually have more people looking to adopt than they have stray or abandoned animals, so some charities transport southern animals.)

The little babies are approximately 5 weeks old. They have mostly mastered the litter box (unfortunately they all have diarrhea... my fault, I switched formula brands). We've working on transitioning from bottle to licking their kitten-mush off a plate. One of them is stubbornly holding out for his bottle.

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Summer 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Tina's Quilts

Happy Friday, Quilters! This week I have quilts to show that were sent in by Tina C, a long-time contributor who usually sends in about one finished quilt a month. 

I really like the fabrics in this first quilt. The colors and the plaids and stripes are really cozy looking. I also really like the fabrics in this second quilt. The color scheme reminds me of this Lonestar I did ages ago.

The matryoshka dolls are adorable.  A long long time ago I got a little piece of that fabric and the one with the onion-top buildings in a scrap bag and parceled them out a little bit at a time. 

Thank you, Tina!

The bottle babies are putting on weight rapidly and growing into little cats instead of fuzzy jelly beans.

There are two boys and one girl. My working names are Squirrel, Possum, and Badger.

Squirrel has achieved total relaxation

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Summer 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Becky & Kathy

Happy Weekend, quilters! I'm showing off some tops made by Becky and quilted by Kathy on her longarm. Both of these ladies are really really good at what they do, so I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.

Lots going on around here! The Pitt Crew kittens (the orange litter) are up for adoption. One of the kittens has already going to a home and mama is spayed. They are fully little cats now. They are wild and playful and climbing all over their little room. Mama is ready to move on to empty-nester life. 

I have taken in another litter, orphan bottle babies (don't ask me how that happened... I was on a lot of cold medicine at the time.) There are 3 of them and they are estimated to be about 2-3 weeks old.  I've had them about a week and they are doing well, gaining weight, and keeping me awake at all hours.  The older kittens seem huge in comparison!

In other fun news, I went to grown up D&D camp a couple weekends ago! It was near Big Bear in Southern California, at 8000ft elevation. It was a ton of fun and in addition to playing lots of D&D I got to do archery, sword fighting, and mini painting.

Eighteen years ago while in college I took archery classes with my friends. Imagine my surprise to find out that muscle memory still works! I won the archery contest at camp and got a badge for my efforts. 

Lastly, I have a couple of old quilts in the local quilt show next weekends. I'm not expecting to win anything, but it's nice to participate.  Whew, no wonder I've been worn out! 

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Summer 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Comforting colors

Hello, friends! Louise here to share more quilty goodness made from YOUR orphan blocks. Let's dive right in with this soft and sweet sampler. This arrived as 24 completely finished blocks featuring a lovely variety of pieced and appliqued designs. The maker also donated the scraps, so I had enough to make one more simple block for a 5x5 layout. A chunk of the matching blue was just right for the binding. I just love how the angular pieced blocks play against the rounded applique florals, don't you?

This next quilt is made from a single fabric line, I think. The fabrics are gorgeous! It was donated as smaller blocks that I put together into the larger stars. You can't go wrong with classic stars.

Next is this sweet little panel with an angel and a cat in a vegetable garden. I removed one row of the panel because it featured two animals with X's in the eyes, and that just struck me as odd? Perhaps the artist is from a culture where X eyes don't mean roadkill, but I couldn't unsee that! A few orphan blocks in similar soft colors brought it up to a baby quilt size. 

Quilt number four is an example of using just a small handful of orphan blocks to make an entire piece. These 13 purple squares really caught my eye and I wanted to keep them together and let them shine. So I set them on point with lots of background fabric for this geometric design. I hope a purple lover really enjoys it.

Last but not least, another baby sized quilt featuring a wonderful donation of 21 teensy tiny paper pieced blocks. Yes, all those geometric block are only 3" finished! From the various fabrics and handwriting on the paper backings, I think these might have been a block exchange from a guild. I set the blocks alternating with little teddy bears from a cute panel, then added sashing, cornerstones and borders to finish. I think of it as the Teddy Bear's Picnic quilt, perhaps with a toy tea set.

Thank you to all who have donated blocks, scraps and fabric to Covered in Love!

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Summer 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

Quilters Quilts

Happy Friday, quilters! This week's quilts were all made by CiL's dedicated quilters.  This first top was made by me from a bag of scraps someone sent in. Linda quilted it on her long arm and finished it off. She found the perfect binding to match. 

Linda also sent in this neat quilt. I thought the backing fabric was really beautiful, kind of watercolor florals.

These next two were came from Doris. Sometimes when I get a box of quilts back there are bonus quilts in there!

This past weekend I attended a sew day for Quilts of Valor at the local League of the Arts. I made 14 blocks and we also got to see a presentation of a quilt to a former army medic, so that was really special.

Hope all is well where you are! The kittens are growing like weeks and should be ready for adoption soon!

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Summer 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday