My Second Quilting Bee

Carin from Margaret's Hope Chest just posted on Tuesday, the finished quilt top for the second quilting bee I joined in this year!  It is so exciting to see a finished project, especially for the purpose these quilts have.  They become birthday gifts for children of incarcerated parents as part of the "Wrapped in Hope" ministry.  If you have quilts you want to donate to the cause, Carin will make sure it goes to someone in need of hope and encouragement.

My Second Quilting Bee & More Pictures From the Quilt Asylum

These are blocks are for another quilting bee which is also with Margaret's Hope Chest and it uses the same tutorial but with the colors blue, green, red and pink

More From The Quilt Asylum on Saturday: 

This Quilt was made by the Lady in the blue shirt from a collection of fat quarters that she admired.

This Quilt was made by the lady in the white shirt with the "Nature's Notebook" line of fabrics.

This Quilt top was made by the unknown lady in black in different batik fabrics

This Quilt was made by the unknown lady in light green.  She wanted to make it for her own bed and with the left over fabric she made a "bed runner" which is in fashion these days (not pictured).

This Quilt was also made by the lady in light green in the last Block Swap.

This Quilt was made by the lady holding the quilt; again, I wish I gotten the names of the ladies who made these beautiful quilts.  She used an old quilt top that was wonky and she came up with this design to make use of it.

The challenge returns & My First Quilting Bee!

Its Back!  Another month and Ruby Slipperz started another round of the challenge to finish more projects!  My last month was very slow on the numbers as I have been slowly working on my recovery as well.  I was able to finish 6 projects (although I forgot to send the last two in for a ticket to win, oh well) and of course in typical fashion I started many more.

I participated in my first online Quilting Bee!  I received the news on March 2nd that I had been accepted in a newly formed group at Margaret's Hope Chest.  She assembles, makes, quilts, (enter in other sewing/quilting type terms here) and distributes quilts to charities.  I suggest you check out the work going on at her website, it is pretty amazing stories.  Well I finished my two blocks for the first Quilt I signed up for and I am hoping to have them in the mail by next week.  The blocks are based on the PS I Quilt’s Block O’ Strings Block tutorial and quite fun to make actually.  I learned a little tip from the tutorial that will continue on for the rest of my quilting/sewing endeavors!