Elefantes Rosas

This is the next one in the baby quilt donation project. Mother found this cotton fabric on the red tag table during a red tag fabric sale. It was a good deal plus really cute fabric. Pink and brown are popular colors for babies right now. The only down side for this one was the fabric on the back. It was a tight weave and very difficult to quilt causing a lot of needle flex and skipped stitches. I had to rip out quite a bit and that left some holes in the backing fabric. Lesson learned: use softer backing fabrics.

Size: 48" x 56" Baby Size
Quilting: Windblown flower pantograph that I made for the Red Rails quilt (3 bobbins) using light pink thread (Omni from Superior Threads).
Backing: Light pink-colored cotton fabric
Batting: 100% Cotton (Warm and Natural)
Binding: Dark burgundy cotton print also used in the inner border and outer border corner blocks.
Pattern: Designed by Mother; center is the elephant print with an inner border and then a piano key pieced outer border with corner blocks.
Piecing 2012 by Mother. Quilting on long arm quilter Feb or Mar 2012 (Patty) Binding by Mother. QC by Spencer.

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Froggy in the Middle

We went to the fabric store and bought some printed flannels for the donation baby quilt project. This one Mother used the stylized frogs to make a cute border around a green dotted print flannel and a plain green flannel.

Froggy in the Middle was a hide and seek game we played with Grandma Short when we were tadpoles.

"Froggy in the middle
And we can't get him out
Take a little stick
And stir him all about
Then kick him out, kick him out, kick him out
Go find Froggy"

The kick him out part always seemed a bit violent and uncalled for to me. I could never figure out why poor Froggy who was always passive in the middle got such rough treatment. Kids! Go figure! But finding him was always fun.

Size: 41" x 51 1/2" Baby Size
Quilting: Meandering pattern (2 bobbins) using light yellow thread (Omni from Superior Threads). Free form quilting.
Backing: Light green-colored flannel
Batting: 100% Cotton (Warm and Natural)
Binding: Dark green cotton print- a tree foliage type print
Pattern: Designed by Mother; no pattern
Piecing 2012 by Mother. Quilting on long arm quilter Feb or Mar 2012 (Patty) Binding by Mother. QC by Spencer.

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Sleepy Time

Then Mother and I got busy making baby-sized quilts to donate to the church for Redwood High School, the continuation high school in the Sequoia District. The church was planning a baby shower for the young mothers at the school; some 45 mothers either bring their babies to the child care at the school or have other arrangements for child care. In any case it's a lot of babies. The church got a tremendous response so some of the blankets contributed were saved for other charities or to use later. Here are a couple pictures of the quilts at church being blessed before the baby shower. You can see a few of the quilts we made in the pictures.

Size: 38" x 56" Baby Size
Quilting: Meandering flower pattern (3 bobbins) using light pink thread (Omni from Superior Threads). Free form quilting.
Backing: Light pink-colored flannel
Batting: 100% Cotton (Warm and Natural)
Binding: Bright blue flannel
Pattern: Designed by Mother; no pattern
Piecing 2012 by Mother. Used scraps from pajamas Mother made for us over many years. Quilting on long arm quilter Feb or Mar 2012 (Patty) Binding by Mother. QC by Spencer.

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Topsy

Size: 60" x 79" Perfect Nap Size - Ann was the first to test when she was not feeling well and needed a place to sleep for a bit on her way home from work.
Quilting: Meandering pattern (3 bobbins) using light thread (Omni from Superior Threads). Free form quilting.
Backing: Light colored flannel
Batting: 100% Cotton (Warm and Natural)
Binding: Stripe from a flannel print
Pattern: Designed by Mother; no pattern
Called 'Topsy' from Uncle Tom's Cabin because like Topsy it just growed.
Piecing 2012 by Mother. Used scraps from pajamas Mother made for us over many years. Quilting on long arm quilter Feb or Mar 2012 (Patty) Binding by Mother. QC by Spencer. Mother kept this one to use on the guest bed.

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Pajama Parade - A Baby Quilt

Size: 40" x 52" Baby Quilt
Quilting: Flower pattern (3 bobbins) using light beige thread (Omni from Superior Threads). Free form quilting.
Backing: Light colored flannel
Batting: 100% Cotton (Warm and Natural)
Binding: Turned front over to back
Pattern: Designed by Mother; no pattern
Piecing 2012 by Mother. Used scraps from pajamas Mother made for us over many years. Quilting on long arm quilter Feb or Mar 2012 (Patty) Binding by Mother. QC by Spencer. Mother kept this one for a future gift.

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Red Rails-Wind Blown Flowers Twine Around Spinning Rails

QC by Spencer
Size: 90" x 104" Queen-bed size
Quilting: Wind blown flower pattern (12 bobbins) using light beige thread (Omni from Superior Threads). Used home made pantograph. Borders have a small flower quilting pattern, also a home made pantograph.
Backing: Unbleached Muslin
Batting: 100% Cotton (Warm and Natural)
Binding: Red small floral print purchased for the quilt to match the border.
Pattern: Spinning Rails from Fons and Porter Quilting July/August 2004
Piecing begun 2004-2005 by Mother. Quilting on long arm quilter Feb. 8-17, 2012 (Patty) Binding by Mother. QC by Spencer. This one took a while to bind, because we had to buy the red material for the binding and then other projects took precedence.

Example Block

Another Example

Block made from fabrics from Penny Worth

Tata and Auntie Bernice Dress Scraps

Aunt Linda and Tata Dress Scraps On the left side is the Ann and Hannah block made from scraps of their dresses.

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Quilt in use on my bed.
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Sally's Day and Night

Spencer QCing Sally's Quilt

Size: 71" x 82" Double-bed size
Quilting:  Random loopy pattern (8 bobbins) using green variegated thread (Lava-gift from Denise)
Backing: Tan and brown leaf print
Batting: 50%/50% Cotton/Poly (Warm and White)
Binding: Darker green print
Pattern: Day and Night from Eleanor Burns

Piecing begun Aug 2011 by Sally. Quilting on long arm quilter Jan. 23-31, 2012 (Patty)  Binding (Sally) will be done after tax season.  QC by Spencer

Close up of quilting

Day and Night book

Page of book

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