Matching I Spy Quilts

I have been working on two I Spy quilts for my grandchildren.  They have already been quilted and are ready to be bound.  I used 5 inch charms and scrappy strips to the piece the two.  I will have to take pictures of the backs of the quilts as they are quite different.

Though it doesn't look that way they are identical in size.

How to Make a Quilter's Design Wall or Board in 30 Minute for $30

There's nothing better than watching your quilt come together right before your eyes.  I love walking into my craft room and seeing a quilt in progress right before my eyes.  It is so easy to move pieces around, change my layouts and even change quilts all without having to put everything away when I'm done.

I think everyone should have a design board.  Here's how I made my VERY large 8x8 foot board for about $30 worth of materials.

 The fabric sticks to the cotton batting AND since it is made of 1 inch thick foam you can also put pins in it.

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Is Anyone Out There?

26 Feb 2013 ~  (at 1:30a.m. in the stinking morning - have to go to work in the morning, argghh)

There's supposed to be a snowstorm rolling in tonight.  One can only hope it will be an adult snow day, though it'll never happen.  We adults are supposed to be responsible and get our butts to work regardless as if we've sworn the postal worker's weather oath.  I figure a good excuse would be that I must stay home to make warm quilts in case this storm wreaks havoc.  People are depending on me....for quilts.  Anyway....

It has been a couple of weeks since I decided to start blogging.  So far, I have learned that I know nothing about blogging!  This is going to be a lot of work.

I am so glad that there is the internet because without it I would be able to build this internet thing.  It's kind of ironic when you think about it.  I have to figure out if anyone can actually see my blog or find my blog with a search.  I have no idea.  At this point, it's a picture diary for myself which is not a bad thing.  I might as well get things recorded.  I might need to look at this blog down the road to remember.  One never knows.

Well, I am off to figure more stuff out.  Let me know if you see me.

Cheers,
Joanne

The Blueberry Patch Crib Quilt

This a baby quilt I made for some friends for the birth of their little boy.  It is a pattern from a book that I will have to go through my library to find in order to give credit where credit is due.

I like the fabric in this quilt.  It gives the illusion that the cuts are crooked and uneven, but they are not.

The label below was done with my embroidery machine.

A quilt for room and board?

This is a quilt I made for the host that billeted our daughter during a soccer tournament on Newfoundland island.  It is a Thimbleberries pattern that I made in Labrador colours.

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Raising Money for the Power Bill

A Labrador Welcome

Here is a quilt that I made in 2003 to for a lottery draw to help raise money to the pay the power bill at the Goose Bay, Labrador curling rink.  I made it from a magazine which one day when I come across it again I will give credit to it designer.

I really liked this quilt a lot and though I'd have loved to have kept it, I know it went to a nice home for a nice cause.

I machined pieced it and did the rest by hand - applique, accent stitching and quilting.

DND RESCUE 420 MEMORY QUILT

We had arrived in Goose Bay just 4 days before Rescue helicopter 420 on a searching and rescue mission went down with 4 souls on board, killing two and severely injuring the other two.

This is a quilt made in memory of that crash in honor of those that were on board and two that died.

Charlene Pulaski's husband was one of the severely injured that day.  Her husband very nearly was not saved because during those days the search and rescue helicopters were painted green making it difficult to find the crash site in the trees on the side of the mountain.

Charlene made it her personal mission and took it all the way to the Defence Minister himself to have the helicopters "put back the way they were" and once again painted yellow and she won.  Hopefully, because of her cause there will be no more helicopter's that can't be found because of camoflage.

Women and young girls came together to make squares for this quilt.  The squares represented all the things that Julie and Colin, who died that day, loved.  Their hobbies, dreams and homes.  It was my job to put it all together.  To make all the squares lay flat so it could be quilted.

It took me exactly 14 days, some 12-14 hours a day to prepare it, quilt it, bind it and prepare it for hanging on time for the a special visit from the Minister of National Defence in a newly yellow painted search and rescue helicopter.  The quilt toured Canada going to all the search and rescue squadrons through out Canada.

The padre's wife asked that quilt birds of peace into the quilt which I did.

  I recall that is was 7 ft. x 4 ft.  I bound it in the search and rescue colours.  I was very heavily quilted and was very heavy.  I had to make a heavy duty hanging system to hold the weight of the quilt.

I do not know where it is today.  Possibly in the Goose Bay, Labrador museum.