Recent Projects March- October

For the Stake Relief Society Meeting this month, I headed up a group of talented women to make 100 hot pads. These would be the take home gift for the women who attended the event. The theme was "Christ's Hands, My hands, Our Hands." Sis. Waldron gave me an idea of what she wanted: hand in heart in sage greens and lilacs. After calling up friends, finding decent fabrics within 30 minutes of here, writing sewing directions, delivering materials, a sewing exchange party, testing the functionality, and sewing them all together, we did it! 100 individually unique hot pads for the women who spent their Saturday enriching their lives.


Quilt for my dear Cristina's baby girl.
One of my best friends from childhood and college had her first baby last month. My mom was going to her baby shower and informed me about it 5 days before. I quickly whipped this quilt out for her and sent it UPS to Utah so she could open it during the shower. It all worked out and I personally thought it was one of my favorite baby quilts I've ever done. Cristina named her beautiful girl Hannah, which means flower in Japanese, hence the inspiration for this quilt.
front and back:


Also, here are some of the baby quilts I've worked on with the talented women here in Mo-town.

These first two quilts, I designed, appliqued, and quilted. Katie J. helped cut out the flower petals, while Amy and Liz cut the front and back squares and Melanie and Michelle helped cut out the palm tree.
Quilt for Michelle's baby.
front and back:


Quilt for Katie W.'s baby.


Quilt for Julie's baby. I guess you could say I designed the bug quilt, we all cut it out, Melanie appliqued it, Mary did the border and binding, and then Katie did the best quilting on it with adorable quilted bugs. (this pic is just the front before it was quilted...I'll try to get a finished pic.)


Quilt for Andrea's baby. This one was us four again (Mary, Katie, Melanie, and I). We each did a block, Mel sewed the blocks together along with the borders, and I did the binding and quilting.


Quilt for Liz's baby. Britta designed this quilt but 9 of us made an original square block following Britta's guidelines of contemporary squares and rectangles. Left to right, top to bottom it goes: Mary, Julia, Amy, Yolanda, Melanie, Amber, Abby, Katie, and Sharleen. Britta then sewed the blocks together, quilted the entire thing, then bound it. Wish you could see her darling quilt patterns, they were fabulous!


I was in charge of the food for Liz's shower and since this pregnancy I've been craving baked goods, I made some of my favorites. We enjoyed Apple Cinnamon Carmel Pecan pull aparts (Monkey Bread), Peach Cobbler, Banana Bread, Pecan Carmel Cheesecake, and Pralines and Cream Ice cream. It was so much fun getting together with friends to celebrate the new baby that will bless their lives soon.