bindings finally done.....

It is cold and windy, so outdoor pictures were done quickly. 

Under the roof (out of the wind) out back. Tractor joe agreed to hold them all up one at a time. Now I wish he had put on better shoes. You can see that his slippers have a hole.

New slippers are on his Christmas list. His sister will get this quilt.

I have been calling this one mini-me. It is made with left over Block Lotto blocks. I wanted it a little bigger so I made some blocks, but didn't use plaids. It is for my cousins grandson. It is just like the one I made her last winter.(a picture of hers is here)

Last, but not least, is the scrappy trip. It is a wedding present for a nephew that was married last summer. We thought we were in a group gift. Then AFTER the wedding we found out there was NO GROUP gift. We were on our own. Last winter I thought about making them one, but never got it done. So, they end up getting a quilt after all. 

This is the third scrappy trip I have made. I love this pattern by Bonnie Hunter!

I am so thankful that the bindings are done! My least favorite thing to do!

birds....

I have been going back and forth on projects. With a day off from work, it was time to sew bird blocks together and make a center. Right now it is 42 x 54.

Both the birds and big hearts are block lotto patterns.

(low volume hearts, click here)

and

(for the bird directions click here)

No, I didn't win these. I had made my blocks for the drawing, and then kept on sewing more birds because I loved them. I will put a narrow black border on this and them some blue and red nine patches will go in the border. 

The little red hearts are basically 4 patches with the four corner triangles added. 

One more cup of coffee and then I will think about what to work on today.

my cousin's scout quilt......

My cousin Gwen started a quilt this past summer. Actually TWO quilts. One for her son and one for his friend. Her idea was to use all these boy scout words.

She went out and bought Tonya's Word Play book and studied that.

She quizzed me about making letters. 

And then she started cutting and sewing.

She didn't stop until she had all these words!

She flew in from New Mexico for the weekend and brought all the words for one of the quilts.

We laid it out on the motel room floor. So the lighting isn't very good. It is actually brighter in real life. The background is whiter and the words are red, blue, brown and black.

Gwen is at the filler stage. 

Her husband wants her to make some fluer-de-lis emblems.

She thought pine trees in the gaps.

I thought stars, so she has a few of those from me.

We thought maybe a few American flags here and there.

She would like to add gold/yellow but isn't sure how. My mom says yellow stars mean a fallen soldier. So she threw that idea out. 

I just had a thought....what if the background of the stars were the gold and not the stars themselves. 

What else? What are we not thinking of?