Tina's Beauties

Happy Friday, quilters! Spring is blowing in with a fury here this week. Hopefully we won't blow away!

All the quilts I have to show you this week are from Tina C. She usually sends 2 completed quilts every month or two. You all know that completed quilts are my favorite kind!

This brown toned sampler is my favorite in a while. I love the interesting blocks and the wavy quilting. The fabrics are wonderfully textured crossweaves and linen-like.

I've been busy this week. My wonderful local quilt shop is closing :( and Loretta has donated dozens of bolts of fabric to CiL. I've been organizing everything and packaging some to ship to Louise and some of the more kiddy stuff to ship to Cynthia at Many Hands Many Hearts.

I am really going to miss my LQS! She had great prices and selection just ten minutes from me, and a great eye for color. Loretta helped choose the fabrics for many of my projects.

The icing on the cake is Joann's closing at the same time. I prefer to buy my fabrics in person so I can see and feel them, but I guess I'm grateful that buying online is an option. Anyway, with all the fabrics Loretta donated, CiL is all set for a while. 

Thank you, Tina and Loretta! Hug your LQS owner if you have a good one.

Sundae staking out Fudge's food bowl waiting for it to open (it's activated by his collar)

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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Tina's Quilts

Happy Friday, quilters! Couple quilts to show you this week sent in by Tina C., one of CiL's loyal supporters. Tina sends in finished quilts every few months and they are some of my favorite boxes to open.  

This first one is from a Quilt Along by Edyta Sitar from Laundry Basket Quilts. I really like the combination of applique and traditional piecing and the way it shows up against the white background. 

Next up, a simple but so effective batik jelly roll quilt in ocean-y shades.  The best part of this one is the awesome sea-animals panto in the quilting. I have included a couple of photos so you can hopefully see it.

Crabs, starfish, octopus, and seahorses! So perfect.

It's unbearably hot here but we are finding a few minutes to spend on the porch in the evenings. Fudge spends the most time out there, Sundae says it's too hot for a fat girl in a fur coat!

  Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1400 so far! The July-Sept 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 Tiny Piecing

Happy Friday, folks! Sorry I missed posting last week, but I hope your all had a great Thanksgiving! We just had a small family holiday at home with good food.

The quilts in this post came from Tina C. She's sent in several quilts to CiL with really small piecing, and this pineapple is maybe the most impressive. She tells me it was started 10-12 years ago!

This pretty sunflower log cabin is also an old project, started in 2009. She chose the perfect quilting motif for it.

Lastly, this beautiful batik quilt with the gorgeous colors.

It's a star sampler with a really creative use of drunkards path blocks in the sashing.

I love how the simple ripple quilting pattern accents the piecing. 

Are you pushing yourself to try to get quilts done for Christmas? I've got a few projects and one free week to complete them, but I don't know if I will!

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Tina's Quilts

Happy Friday! Three finished quilts to show this week courtesy of Tina C. It's still hot as blazes in Texas, and I know a lot of the rest of the country is in the same boat. I can't wait for us to start cooling down in the Fall.

This first quilt has amazing tiny piecing.  It's a Jen Kingwell pattern, "Long Time Gone." Most of the fabrics are shot cottons or peppered cottons and they are sooo soft. 

I took a bunch of close-up pictures with my hand so you can appreciate the precise piecing.  I also really love the rich autumnal colors. 

These next two quilts are in a very different but equally pretty color palette of corals. 

This quilt is made from blocks in the "What is Love" Quilt-A-Long earlier this year. They are all interesting, modern blocks. 

I thought this broken heart block was especially interesting. 

This last quilt proved very hard to photograph. As you can see, I gave up on the idea of catching the sun in the right position (and preferably not 100 degrees) to take photos outside and just did my best inside. 

There is definitely more contrast in real life and the coral solid with the floral is a nice soft combination. 

Sundae showing off her yoga moves. I tried some pilates the other day and got sore in muscles I didn't know I had...

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Return from the Land Down Under

G'day quilters! I'm back from a nice trip to Australia visiting a friend and seeing the area around Melbourne. Thanks to Louise for doing some fill-in posts while I was gone. I always love how she puts together so many disparate blocks into coordinating quilts.

This week I have several quilts that came in finished from two different quilts. These first two are from Julie W. Firstly a very precise and impressive sampler quilt in a soft color scheme. 

Next Julie sent in this awesome purple quilt. I love the color scheme and how the simple design looks so complex. 

I also love the geometric quilting panto she chose, perfect for the design! 

Next, two quilts by Tina. I should have taken better photos of this one. It's a beautiful applique sampler of different flowers.

These lavender have fun tufted, textured flowers that I tried to get a close up of.

Lastly, another sampler quilt in a soft color scheme from Tina. Samplers are always fun to look at! 

Here's a photo of the famous "Twelve Apostles" rocks. Maybe I'll make a Friday post of some of the best photos from my trip?

More Goodies

Happy Friday, Kat here! Louise has been soooo helpful stepping in to create some Friday posts here at the end of summer when I got a little bogged down with life.  We'll still be alternating a little bit for a while. I know you all like to hear from her!  

Tina C sent in these first couple quilts, including this amazing sampler with a mix of techniques to make different image blocks. She also made this blue-green pixel quilt during the May-June block drive.

I'm happy to share that CiL has expanded into a 3rd hospital! This one is smaller and probably won't go through as many quilts, but they were thrilled to have them to share with the patients who do pass there. 

This very large Swoon quilt was sent in without a return address or name if anyone can claim it! 

Our newest hospital has an interesting history. It was originally a military camp, training base and POW camp around the time of WWI/WWII.  After the wars it was converted into a convalescent camp to isolate and treat those with TB in the miliary tents and barracks.  Ultimately it became a "chest hospital" with permanent buildings and a focus on TB and other respiratory diseases.  Today it is a full-service hospital, still with a focus on diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis, TB, COPD, and Legionnaires. 

Carol E sent in this simple, striking quilt that will be great for a male. It would also make a cool block for a block drive next time I'm feeling up for a simpler one. 

This next quilt with the Route 66 novelty fabric was sent in by Kelley. The really cool thing about this one is how much it resembles one I made before.  Back in 2015, I had pulled the same fabric from a remnant bin, I'm sure.  Kelley and I chose the same way to approach the quilt, choosing read-as-solid coordinates and making a simple patchwork. Amazing how similar two quilts can be completely by coincidence! 

I went on a couple trips recently and on one of them I acquired a new tattoo. I've been thinking about this one for a while and I love how it came out! 

Fudge likes it too.  Top to bottom the blocks are Storm at Sea, Dutchman's Puzzle, and Lonestar. 

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1000 so far! The September/October block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

Linking to  Confessions of a Fabric Addict and Finished or Not Friday