A Quilt for Bela

 Bela is a sweet 16 year old girl who was born with heart problems. She has had many heart surgeries throughout her life. Finally, her heart was failing really badly and she had to go to the hospital to wait for a new heart. She had been in the hospital for a month when a heart was made available! My friend Nedra had made her a blue heart quilt a year ago, because blue is Bela's favorite color.

Bela is home from the hospital now and working on getting stronger every day. Nedra had the idea of making a heart quilt to celebrate Bela's new heart. Some of us got together and sewed the heart blocks and nine patches for a new quilt.

Nedra made us a beautiful and delicious lunch. Here we all are, holding some blocks.

Nedra sewed the blocks together, Terri machine quilted it, and Nedra bound the quilt.

It feels wonderful to do something like this for someone ❤️

Ho Ho Ho quilt

I love Christmas quilts ❤️

This one is called Ho Ho Ho by Wendy Sheppard, for Annie's Quilting. It was a beginner quilt, pretty easy to put together, and uses fat quarters or large scraps. 

I love the little gifts in the letter "O's".

It's difficult to see, but I used a minty green background with little gold stars. I'm looking forward to getting this one quilted!

Thanks for following and see you again next week :)

Binding Pillow

Usually, at quilt retreat, everyone gives out gifts. Usually handmade, but not always. This retreat, I made Halloween binding pincushions. I sewed a 1 1/2" nine patch and framed it. I stuffed the little cushion and added two clips and a cute pair of scissors. I always keep my thread and needles in the pocket.  I just grab the pincushion and my quilt, sit in front of the TV and bind my quilt.

Our retreat was before Halloween, so this them was perfect!

I thought they were really cute!

See you next week! ❤️

My Quilt Retreat

 I had another quilt retreat, it was rejuvenating to the soul ❤️

Here is my finish, the quilt is called Frank. I love it!

Here's Jill's quilt, it's exquisite. Sweet Violet by Missouri Star.

Here's Terri's quilt!  She's a huge Kaffe fan. It's Kaffe 2024 Mystery by Free Spirit.

Here's one of Nedra's quilts, a Christmas tree snow globe.

Here's another finish for Nedra, such a cute quilt!

Brenda's adorable quilt is A Cowgirl's Dream by Wildrose Designers for Riley Blake.

Linda's gorgeous, festive quilt is All Wrapped up by Missouri Star.

Another one by Terri is amazing!!!  It's called Secret Agent Sew Along.

The back is almost as beautiful as the front!  It almost looks like stained glass.

Linda didn't quite finish this bee and sunflower log cabin but it will be a beauty! It's paper pieced too!

That's me!  Those are Debbie's witch hats which she was so close to finishing!

Brenda whipped this quilt up in no time, with the big church dash blocks. The fabric is way prettier in person :)

Brenda also finished this cute table runner.

One of our dinners at a fabulous Thai restaurant.

Debbie made this really cute fall quilt by Jedi Craft.

Debbie also made this quilt at retreat :)

This is us! I don't know if there's a nice group of women out there! Our should were rejuvenated and we all enjoyed each other's company so much! Each person has their own story and what happens at quilt retreat, stays at quilt retreat!

Thanks for stopping by, I'll see you next week :)

Everyday Quilted Tote

 I made this bag for my friend, I know she loves Kaffe fabric. This friend is such a thoughtful person, she's always doing kind things for people and will go out of her way to help anyone who needs it. She has given me such beautiful gifts, and I wanted to make something special for her.  When I was at Missouri Star quilts, I went into the Kaffe store and carefully chose the fabric. I know she likes green too, so I bought a green zipper.

The pattern was fairly straightforward to make but it would have been way easier if there were pictures or illustrations in the instructions.  Even a video tutorial would have been great, but I couldn't find one anywhere.

I made the bag but had to read the instructions over and over again until I visualized it in my head. I would love a bag like this, and hope to make one in the future.  I made the larger size and I can see myself needing a bag this size.

The pattern is by Knot and Thread design :)

See you next week!

Spooky Season Sampler

I joined this quilt along, it was a lot of fun! It ran from October 1-10. Every morning, the first thing I would do, was look at my email to see what the new block looked like. On the tenth day, there was the finishing instructions.  This is the second year that Fran at Cotton and Joy has done it.  Each year, she gets nine different designers to design 9 spooky blocks. This year, I was able to get each block done on the day, but some days I had to stay up late!

Here are all the blocks, I think you can still sign up to get the free block patterns.  Cotton and Joy is on Instagram.

One of my grand daughters said that this is her dream Halloween quilt!

How cute is that! 

It was fun to fussy cut the skulls on this one :)

I turned my Frankie into a lumberjack, lol!

A spooky tombstone!

I loved choosing the fabric for this block. Notice that the owl has owls on his body!

Here's the link to my quilt from last year.

Thanks for following and I'll see you again next week :)