Scrappy Mountain Majesties Block Drive Wrap Up

Happy Friday, quilters! Today I have the wrap up post for our Scrappy Mountains block drive. These first two quilts were assembled by Becky and quilted by Doris on her long arm. 

I loved this block drive, the design and the color scheme and all the quilts that were made! We ended up with a total of 9 quilts.

Quite a few of them got backings from this fabric line with the really deep blue and teal that coordinated perfectly with the blocks. This yardage was donated by my local quilt shop friend.

Speaking of block drives, I finally got our next one posted, check out the link at the bottom of this post. I think this one is going to be a favorite of mine, too.

Great swirly panto that compliments the top. 

These last two tops were assembled by me and quilted by Linda on her long arm.

When I was putting together this arrangement I though I was arranging them with the darker bits together, but not it's obvious that I was arranging the busy/patterned fabrics together, except for the one that's the wrong way around.

These were the leftover blocks that didn't play well with others and the came together into a nice little top. Nice and bright!

Here's our block drive by the numbers, thanks to everyone who participated!

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

More Scrappy Mountains Quilts

Happy Friday, quilters! I have a couple more of the Scrappy Mountain quilts from our block drive to show this week. Both of these were assembled by Becky and quilted by Linda.

The multicolor thread Linda chose coordinates great with the colors in the top.

For the backings I used some donated fabric in navy and teal with metallic copper highlights.

I think Becky did a really good job choosing which blocks together and laying out the tops.

Thank you ladies! Everything is good here at the cat house. Stuart is getting to spend more time out in gen-pop. He slept on the bed last night and everyone behaved themselves.

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

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Even More Potato Chips

Happy Friday, quilters! I've got some more finished quilts to show from our big potato chip block drive. This first top was sent in by one of our frequent supporters, Beth T, and then quilted by Linda. 

These next two were assembled by Becky M from block drive blocks and then also quilted by Linda. 

I've been busy sewing this week. Mostly assembling tops from your blocks, but I did sew up a string block top from a box of scraps Rena sent me.

In non-quilty news, I have a new foster cat, a five year old orange boy named Stuart. He is sequestered in my spare room because he doesn't care for other cats. 

Stuart is a people cat. He was obviously very bonded to his human mom and has been struggling since she had to go into a nursing facility. He loves pets, cuddles, and play. Hopefully we can find him a new person soon.  

Thanks to everyone who participated in this block drive, and especially to those helping me finish the quilts!

Stuart looks a lot like my cat Fudge, but Fudge has nose freckles and black whiskers.

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

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

First of the Scrappy Mountains

Happy Friday, quilters! I know many of you, like me, are looking at a cooold weekend ahead, so let's have some warm quilts.

The first few quilts from the Scrappy Mountains Block Drive are done and ready to show. These first couple were quilted by Kathy on her long arm.

Speaking of block drives, there's a new one at the end of this post!

Becky in South Texas has been a godsend to help with assembling block drive blocks into tops. She made all the tops in this post and chose the layouts. I think she did an awesome job!

I'm in love with these quilts! Both the color scheme and the design are right up my alley.

This last one was quilted by Linda with one of my favorite pantos.

These ladies did such a great job with the blocks that were sent in and produced some stellar quilts.

Stay warm, everyone. I recommend snuggling someone with fur if you can 

Fudge on Uncle-duty with the kittens

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

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

More Potato Chip Quilts

Happy Friday, quilters! I'm back with more quilts from our 2024 Potato Chips block drive. These tops were assembled by Becky and quilted by Kathy G. (I'm at least, like, 90% sure things were quilted by Kathy. Admittedly my storage system did get rearranged and there's a small chance they were done by Doris or Linda. D'oh.)

These are such cozy, quintessential quilts, they are popular with everyone! I took a big load up to the hospitals last week and they were grateful to receive these 

I took the kittens to the local SPCA today for vaccines and wormer. The vet estimated they are 5 months old, which means they were several underweight 4 month olds when I trapped them 

They currently hate me again, but hopefully that's only temporary. Considering they're even older than I thought they've really made great strides in socialization. Potato is fully on board with pets and being held, and little Sage is coming around slowly.

The big cats have come a long way, too. They're not just tolerating the babies, but grooming them and playing with them. Fudge is a fan of having some more energetic playmates than his sister.

If anyone lives within driving distance and would like some kittens, let me know! Thank you to Becky and Kathy, and to everyone who contributed to the block drive. I literally couldn't do it without you.

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

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