Spiritual Tree of Life

This is what I call Spiritual Tree of Life.  I saw a picture of one in a magazine several years ago and adapted it my life.  The leaves are aspects of life that are part of my spirituality.  I machine quilted it on my domestic machine. I hand embroidered the words on the leaves.  The rest of it went together in a weekend.

Leader & Ender String Blocks

I am still working on my paper pieced pieces for the Wild Women Don't Get the Blues quilt blocks.  This takes so much longer than I expected.  I keep telling myself I should have gone for a wall hanging!  Truth is that I think I'm bored with it and haven't seemed to find the time to work too much on it.  Anyway, I have used the Bonnie Hunter philosophy of leaders and enders to make string blocks.  I will need 42 of them for a quilt and I suspect I will have that done by the time I finish the Wild Women Don't Get the Blues blocks done!  The string blocks will be made into a throw size quilt and machine quilted.  It will be a donation quilt.  I can't believe it has hardly made a dent in my string stash!  So, I guess I'll start on another one as a leader and ender.

Quick Baby Quilt

I needed a quick baby quilt for my niece's baby shower next Saturday.  She's having a baby girl and is so excited.  I found a pattern in a McCall's Modern quilting publication.  You sew 3 1/2" strips to the batting and backing together diagonally.  Here is the result!

I used scraps and cut 3 1/2" strips off of fabric in my stash.  When I look at the sample in the publication it has all different width strips.  However, probably for the ease of directions, they went with 3 1/2" strips.  It was so easy.  Within a few hours I had a finished quilt- except to sew the binding.