Jennifer's quilt from Grandma

 This is the quilt that my Mom made using her old housecoats. None of them were very worn out. I believe that she used a new bed sheet for the backing. She did it all by hand. No machine sewing. She used alot of circles for the hand quilting and some stars.  I added a few lazy daisies to some blocks.  My daughter looks it.

 Step 5 for my guilds mystery quilt along.  This was finished awhile ago.  We just got step 6 and I am working on it at present. 

Happy quilting.

Carol

These 2 photos are the back and front of a crumb block quilt that I made. The little blocks were 3 1/2 inches and then I put them together as a quilt as you go method. The panels in between I first quilted and then joined each row together the same way.  Ended up being a busy quilt but then will be for a baby.

I do enjoy making the crumb block all different sizes. Think next time the between rows will be not so busy. Likely a  solid or tone on tone instead.

Here we are now still having Covid issues.  I am usually able to get a couple of hours in each day for my sewing.  Hope everyone out there is doing well.

Happy quilting.

 

I believe that both of these were done in May, 2020/ Top are some of the masks that I have been making and giving away.  The bottom is step 4 of the mystery quilt we are making at my quilting guild.  Covid 19 is still keeping us pretty much at home.  Out for groceries.  I did go out once with Mom to a clothing store and for lunch.  Library has opened up a little with restrictions.
Happy quilting, Carol

 These photos were taken before my daughter got married on Sept. 7, 2019.  Above is my son Christopher. Before Chris with his wife Sara.

 Photos are taken at Jenn and Tanner's house while getting ready to go to the church.

 My close friend Jocelyn

 Mother of the Bride...Me. Before the wedding.

 And Jennifer ready to head for the church.  The bouquet started out as my bouquet. Jean and I together made the teal satin flowers to add to the bouquet. My maid of honour made the original bouquet 30 years ago.

The beginning of a great day. I stayed at Jenn's the night before so we could leave early the next morning to get our hair done downtown at the hairdresser that Mary(Tanner's mom goes to).

More for the next posting.

These sets of blocks are from my guilds' block lotto for 2 different months.  I didn't win either set but I did make some blocks for each.
    So we are 6 weeks into social distancing for covid 19.  No one close to us has been positive that I know of.  Things started to get cancelled the week of March 8.  First thing that we missed was Friday March 13.
    It hasn't changed a lot for us other then eating out, an me going out for the groups that I attend.  We now shop once a week during the senior times. This is usually very early in the morning.
    I've been sewing a lot. Other then quilting I have been making cotton masks. Elastic is low at my house so I have been trying to come up with other things to use.
Happy quilting to all.
 Hugs, Carol

 This is my winning with the sashing  borders attached. I have set this aside for the moment to work on my March quilt of u.f.o's.   I will use q.a.y.g for putting it together when I get back to it.

These are the one set of blocks for my Judy neimeyer Harvest moon quilt. The last time I was at Nancy's I got the 2 parts of the pointy blocks sewn together.  Next time I go I will decided on the lay out for the quilt.

It is April 13 today and all is in isolation/social distancing because of Covid 19.  Our last outing together was Friday March 13, when we went to mom's for the afternoon because seniors' was cancelled due to Covid 19.  We had 2 weeks when we didn't go out away from home. and then and now we just go out for groceries.  We go during a seniors time to shop both to no frills and to Costco.
Early in the morning.  There are less people in the store and it works out well.
  Yesterday was Easter Sunday and it was the first in a long time that we did not have a family dinner.
Very strange.
  I have been doing some quilting but am mostly now making some scrub bags and face masks.  Getting  low on elastic now but still going at the moment.
  Happy sewing.....:)Carol

 Above is my Feb. u.f.o.  This started as just the blocks. I won these from the online block lotto group that I belong to.  They have been sitting waiting for me to make something.  So In Feb. I decided how I was going to put the together  and that I had to make 4 more. Which I did. Then I started sewing them together in groups of 4. This shot was the one I was trying to decide which fabric to use for the sashing.  I actually picked the one in the middle.  I don't have another photo uploaded but I got all 3 rows sewn together with the sashing and add a 5 1/2 inch strip to each left side and another on the right side of the last set. Plan is to quilt as you go for assemble and figure out another border for the top and bottom.

 The above quilt in progress is also a bit further then the photo. I now have the centre part sandwiched and pinned. The outer borders have an added 5 1/2 inch strip to the outside of all of them. They will be sandwiched and quilted separated and the joined to the main piece

The centre of the above quilt was done after taking a class from Loraine Stagness.I then added the twisty border to make it queen size.  This quilt I gifted to my Mom and Stepdad for their 25th wedding anniversary.  It is now on my mom's bed.  The painting above it was painted by my daughter for a Christmas gift to Grandma.  The crewel picture pillow on the bed was made by me years ago.  Well, I did the crewel work, my mom made it into a pillow.

 This is a charity/donation quilt that I finally finished in Jan. All the materials on the front were donated by my quilting guild. A member cut up a lot of scraps from long arming into 6 1/2 inch blocks and to took a bundle of them a couple of years ago.  It was a long time in the making. Put together as "quilt as you go".  The back flannel was my donation to the quilt. It was a red and navy plaid.  I forgot to get a photo of that. This shot was from show and tell at my guild meeting.

 This is half of a scarf that I made last year.  My mom reminded me of a pattern I used as a teenager for scarves and I decided to make another one. Very easy to make. The bottom is made by dropping stitches then you continue to make the part that goes around your neck.

 Not sure if I posted this before or not.  This is my Christmas quilt. Made with blocks that I won at my quilt guild for being a committee member.  It took me a long time to get the blocks together but it has been made now for quite some time.

 These are hexagon placemats I made as a Christmas gift.

 Panel baby quilt I made for my nieces daughter in 2019. Add hexagon butterflies.

Two block lotto blocks from 2019

I am getting a few thing finished finally this year. Photo's to follow.

 This is Karen S. with a block of the month. I think it was in the spring 2019.

 Chris and Sara with the parents.

 These baby pictures are of the above groom. Chris was 1 year old here. So that would be me at 37. Dave and Wilf with Chris. Muriel in top photo.

  Here are 4 folded star hot pads I Made in 2019. All given as gifts and Have left my house.

This is one of the chair pads that I cross stitched a tarts in the middle. in 2019.

That is it for today. We are doing a fitness program at the moment and just finished part of it this morning.  Lots of info with the program.

Happy quilting to all.

 Chris and his best friends. They got ready at our place

 Over the years they had a lot of fun on the merry-go-round.

 Jenn and Tanner

 Jenn and Chris.

Chris and Sara during the ceremony

Had to add something Quilty. So here are the first set of blocks that I had from the patterns of 52 blocks in 52 weeks.

 Chris and his groomsmen in their Hawaiian shirts. Chris and Brian always wore Hawaiian shirts in high school.  Sara was not fond of Christopher's Hawaiian shirts and they are long gone. Brian organized buying these 4 shirts especially for the wedding. They put them on before the speeches at the wedding.

 Chris and  Sara, Sara's parents, Chris's parents

 Top photo is Grandpa and Grandma Locking, Christoper and his daddy . Bottom shot is of Chris and Mommy likely just before he turned 1. His birthday is in August.

Top is Chris in his swing, then Dad and Grandpa in Florida.

 Jenn and Tanner

 Jenn and Chris

 Sara with her Dad and Grandfather.

 During the service.

 Ginny, Jennifer and Melissa.

Rob, Alex and Brian.