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. 

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Priscilla and Sundance

I received a box this week with no name or note containing 7 tops with backing fabrics and batting. If you sent it please comment or email coveredinlovetx@gmail.com to let me know!

Happy Friday, Quilters! Hope you're all doing well. This week I have 4 quilts to show you with tops made by Priscilla and quilted by Sundance. 

Butterfly and flower panto on this cozy blue and yellow quilt. Sundance Quilting have been great to work with and I recommend them if you need affordable and fast long arming services. 

Priscilla always makes great scrappy quilts. I'll probably be making a delivery of quilts up to the hospital next week.

Lately it has seemed like we are swamped with a lot of sicker patients than usual. It makes for long days as well as being pretty disheartening for everyone involved.  CiL is a nice way to feel like I'm at least doing something to help these people when there's nothing medical I can do. 

Sorry for the over exposed photos. Once I got started taking photos and was all sweaty I just wanted to push through and get them done. 

At long last I have posted a new block drive, so be sure to check that out at the bottom of the post. These are larger blocks than usual but I think they'll be really fun quilts. I can't wait to start seeing some of the blocks you put together!

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 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

Bev & Sundance

Happy Friday, quilters! This week's quilts are tops by Bev quilted by Sundance Quilting. 

Starting off with this sweet fruit themed quilt. I found the perfect pear quilting design for it in their catalog.

All of these quilts were part of a recent delivery to the hospitals, so they are on their way to grieving families.

This top is made from a fabric line with lots of metallic accents. Bev sent her extra fabrics and I was able to make binding from it.

This last quilt is truly gigantic, I couldn't hang it up to take a photo. The colors are very sweet and soft pinks and greens.

I found a great rose/ floral motif for the quilting that I think works really well.

I apologize that there isn't a new block drive yet. I promise I'll get there. I've just busy with life!

CatTV at the bird feeder

 

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

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Denise & Julie's Bright Quilts

Happy Friday, quilters! I've got some beautiful, bright quilts this week. It's almost enough to make you feel Spring-y. All four quilts in this post were quilted by Sundance Quilting. 

These first two tops were made by Denise. I love her rainbow color schemes. 

The rainbow colors against the gray in this quilt pop especially well, I think. 

Next up, two tops made by Julie W. These are really great, bright, scrappy quilts, and so cozy.

Sundance Quilting has been great to work with and gives us a charity discount. I definitely recommend them if you are looking for a commercial long-armer. 

Both of Julie's quilts have really simple scrap blocks, but they are so effective when arranged together. 

Thank you, ladies! Your cheerful quilts will be perfect to comfort a grieving family.

We've had some wild weather and power outages this week. I walked into the refrigerator in the dark and got a nice bruise on my cheek. I hope you're all safe and warm!

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

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Three Years Later {Tall 9 Block Drive Wrap Up}

Happy Friday, Quilters, and Happy New Year! At long, long last the Sept 2021 Fall Tall Nines block drive has wrapped up. Only 3.3 years after it launched. This was a HUGE block drive and these blocks have been my nemesis. Every time I thought they were all quilted up I would find more.

These first two quilts were made from donated blocks by Cynthia with Many Hands Many Hearts. She chose a nice fall-ish panto with leaves and pumpkins for the first one.

This second one, also quilted by Cynthia, has straight lines. I am always a fan of geometric quilting. 

These last three tops were all made by Donna and quilted by Sundance. 

I've enjoyed working with Sundance Quilting this past year to help finish CiL quilts and I do recommend them if y'all are looking for an affordable commercial longarmer. They've been wonderful to work with.

This drive produced almost 50 quilts, which is CiL's largest drive ever by a large margin. 

Obviously it's wonderful to be so supported and be able to bless so many grieving families with quilts, but it did make me quite overwhelmed with the task of getting them all assembled and quilted. 

Many thanks to the dozen or so folks who helped to get these done over the past three years. They're beautiful quilts and if I were going to choose a block drive to go over the top there couldn't have been a better one. 

The new block drive for Jan-March 2025 has just started, you can find the link at the very bottom of this page, if you want to join in!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in this block drive, nearly 100 of you! I can't wait to see what we make in 2025.

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

 Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Tops by Jo

Happy Friday, quilters! I've got a few more quilts to show you this week. These tops were all made and sent in by Jo. this first one was sent in to Sundance Quilting to be finished.

Sundance did this cute ladybug motif, and I really like the rainbow backing and binding I found to complement it. 

This top, made from batiks, was quilted with a stipple by me here at home. 

For some reason this one didn't photograph particularly well. It's stunning in real life. 

I LOVE this quilt design with various sizes of flying geese. I really like the white space in it. 

It uses vintage 30's looking fabrics and Sundance did a big loopy flower design for the quilting.  Thank you Jo!! And Merry Christmas to everyone.

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