At Quilt Con in Raleigh, I won a 2.5″ charm pack from the FICO fabrics booth. The charm pack was called “Seasons”. There is a free pattern for the Lucky Star mini quilt (20″ square) on the FICO fabrics website. I found some fun white fabric to use for the background. I decided to add an additional border to the quilt. It is not quilted yet because I have to decide how to quilt it and whether I want to make a larger quilt from the completed square.
Keep having fun sewing and quilting. Donna
My bed quilt is now finished with binding and quilting. Quilting was done by Quilting Cats Studio. 
It was a modern feather quilting pattern that looks good. Now I have a new bed quilt to use for the fall/ winter seasons.
I also finished quilting and binding a wonky log cabin baby quilt. I found scraps of a jungle animal print that I fussy cut for the center of the squares. I also limited the colors that I used in the quilt blocks so that it would be less busy. It is a fun quilt for a new baby. 
Keep having fun sewing and quilting. Donna
QOV – Heroes Comfort
Donna and I enjoy making quilts of Valor (to be gifted to Veterans).
I try to do one a year.
Here is my latest.
(Note: I still have to put the binding on and then laundry it with lots of color catchers to ensure that the red fabrics do not try to bleed onto the white fabrics.)
This free pattern can be found on the QOV website and is called Heroes Comfort. It is very easy, scrap friendly and really has an strong impact. I used mostly scraps from our QOV fabric stash and had it quilted with an edge-to-edge star design by Quilting Cats Studio.
Happy Stitchin,
Mary
I’ve been working on a new queen size (BOM) bed quilt and when I need a break from this big project, I’ve been working on some smaller projects and trying to finish some UFOs.
Here is one of those UFO’s.
Wattle & Loop kit
These collage slow stitch flowers showed up in my FB feed sometime last year and every time I saw them, I just fell in love with them. So I finally bought two of the kits (from Australia).
I cut the shapes from the fabric provided in the kit and then glued them down (maybe not the best choice as it is harder to get a needle thru the glued spots). Next, I began hand stitching the fabric pieces down. 
The hand stitching really adds another texture dimension and I do enjoy hand stitching.
I finally finished them and decided to frame them. I really like how they turned out and enjoyed the whole process.
It is great to have another UFO complete!
Happy Stitchin,
Mary
Here are my 2 charity (comfort) quilts that I worked on during our guild zoom sew-in.
It was great that some longarmers in our guild had volunteered to quilt all the quilts so this time all we had to do was create the quilt tops.
Happy Stitchin,
Mary
Earlier this month our quilt guild had a charity zoom sew in day to make charity quilts. Mary and I met with 2 other quilter friends to make charity quilts. It was a fun day working with friends and making quilts.
I had lots of leftover 2.5″ strips from kids quilts so I worked on 2 lasagna quilts.
I was able to cut the 2 lasagna quilts in half and added borders so now I have 4 quilt tops completed. 
I also found 2 fat quarter fabrics with a birthday theme with the Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle books). I cut the fat quarters into charm squares and made a quilt top using some solid fabrics. It was a productive week of making charity quilt tops.
There are a couple of women in our guild who will do the long arm quilting for the tops.
Keep having fun sewing and quilting. Donna
I took several photos of this beautiful tulip tree a couple of years ago. We drive by this barn and tree often when we are doing errands. 
So I decided to make this quilt. I started with strips of green and blue fabrics to make the background of sky and grass. Then I used a walking foot to stitch straight lines to attach the background strips to the batting and backing fabric. I put the background quilt on my design wall and worked on other projects since I hadn’t figured out how to make the barn or tree. After completing several other projects, I started work on the barn using fusible applique. I stitched the barn onto the background and then set the project aside again because I hadn’t figured out how to make the flowers on the tulip tree. Once I decided to paint the tulips on the tree, I was ready to tackle the tree. I took more pictures of the trunks of several tulip trees and drew a tree trunk on drawing paper. 
I used fusible brown fabric for the tree trunk. 
I used Lumiere acrylic paints in 2 colors for the flowers. Once the tree was completed, the foreground needed some work. So I searched through some landscape fabrics and found the stone wall fabric. I fussy cut the stone wall fabric and some green fabrics for the shrubs. I used free motion quilting to hold these fusible elements in place. I used a facing instead of binding to finish the quilt. The finished size is about 20″ x 28″. Keep having fun sewing and quilting. Donna
This month I started 2 BOM projects. The first BOM is a bird project from Wonderfil Threads – free program. There are 2 patterns for each bird – paper pieced or wool applique. 
I decided to use cotton fabrics and fusible applique with decorative stitches. I found a blue background fabric to use for the 12 blocks.
I have completed the first 2 blocks – canary and hummingbird. I am going to have fun selecting fabrics for the birds.
The 2nd BOM program is a free program with the National Quilt Museum and just started in April. Each month different designers create the blocks for this program. I decided to make a Quilt of Valor with this BOM. 
The first block was 16″ square and I made 2 blocks. The block was called “Echo”. The block with the shades of blues looks like the pattern.
A friend gave me 7 flag blocks which I added a border to each block. I think this quilt will be more like a sampler quilt of random blocks. We will see how it goes.
Keep having fun sewing and quilting. Donna
Last year I bought a Chickadee Collage art quilt pattern from Etsy. The pattern finished size was 8″ x 10″. I decided to make the pattern larger – 12″ x 18″ and changed the background color from brown to shades of blue. The collage background was super easy to make – just place squares or rectangles on the background muslin and use a glue stick to attach the pieces. 
I also decide to paint the bird using Inktense pencils and textile medium.
The pattern showed the bird on a branch but it’s spring so I added pink dogwood flowers and leaves. Before attaching the applique pieces I used straight line quilting for the background. I added 2 borders and the binding. Keep having fun sewing and quilting. Donna
This second couching class with Helen Godden was also fun to complete. First I traced the design of the bird and foliage on the white fabric background. 
Next, time for free motion quilting the background. I used echo quilting around the bird design. Then I sectioned off the different areas of the background to free motion quilt using some of my favorite designs. I am glad that I practiced the yarn couching with the landscape quilt first. It was a challenge to complete the small bird sections. I used the a black fabric marker for the legs, beak and eye. 
For the binding, I used 4 strand of variegated green yarn.
The finished size is 17″ x 26″.
Keep having fun sewing and quilting. Donna
Quilting Sisters Unravelled 