Hands 2 Help Update

Deadlines are a good thing!  If we didn't have these updates, I'd never get around to posting, or to finishing anything, for that matter.

My Hands 2 Help quilt is done - quilted and bound!

 I love how it turned out - see how nicely it matches my Mother's Day flower basket?  I didn't have a partner choose a palette for me, since I wanted to use some of my novelty prints.  This was a fun quilt to make, and a pattern I'll use again for charity quilts.  It went together pretty quickly.

The back is pieced, too...

It uses the same prints found in the front, along with a little lime green. 

Now I just have to decide if this should go to the chemo patients or sent with the church group to New Orleans - any thoughts about that?  It's more of a kid's quilt, since I used the novelty fabrics.  It finished at about 60" square.  It's really prettier in real life than these pictures show - the pink looks pretty overwhelming in this picture! 

About a year ago, our guild had Ann Wanke from The Quilted Basket teach a workshop, and I made this Twister quilt from Dilly Dally charm packs and a little yardage.  I loved working with that fabric - it was so soft and silky, and such bright, happy colors.  This quilt finished at 44", so it's a little under our limit for Hands 2 Help.  I machine quilted it with the flower motif that's in the fabric.  It's done and ready to go to a new home, too.



Since I haven't blogged in so long, I have a couple wool things to show, too.  I finished this little candle mat this spring - I guess it's for next Easter.

And the wool Banner of the Month for April was a topiary...

Work is progressing on the May Banner of the Month!