Hope for Honduras

It was a sewing day at Bellevue East High School for "Hope for Honduras."  We made dresses in three different sizes for the young girls in Honduras.  Kayla, pictured above turning a dress, is one of the original organizers and really is a leader in orchestrating this project.  I was impressed!

We had cutting, pressing, trimming, turning and sewing stations.  It was amazing how many dresses can be completed in a short period of time with everyone doing one thing.

There were all ages of volunteers helping out.  It was fun to see them all pitching in.

Even some guys showed up to help.

The dress pictured below is one that I helped to make.  I purchased the fabic and I enjoyed seeing the fabric turn into one of the completed dresses today.

The pattern we used has been perfected over the past few years. The dress is reversible and ties at the shoulders.  They turned out really cute!!  Below is an example of one of the dresses.

Two dresses in one.  How fun!!

Blogger's Quilt Festival-Fall 2011

I just finished putting on the binding of my quilt, so I could show it for Amy’s Creative Side Blogger's Quilt Festival. I’m thankful to Amy, because she makes it fun for those of us that are unable to attend the Houston International Quilt Show. I dream of going someday….what it must be like to see all the quilts, vendors, fabrics, patterns, threads, ribbons, trims and buttons etc. It must be a quilter’s heaven!

My quilt is made from fabric designed by Wendy Slotboom for In The Beginning fabrics. The fabric was out a couple of years ago, but sometimes it takes me a while to finish a project. I used the free pattern on the website from In The Beginning called XOXOXO, The Cat. It really was a fun pattern and easy to put together.

On the back, I used other piece from Wendy’s line and it has notes from the cat.  They’re fun to read.

My sister, Kristine, machine quilted it for me. I’m so thankful for her talents!!

If you leave a comment, thank you very much. I really enjoy reading them. Thanks for stopping by my blog and have fun looking at all the other beautiful quilts in the quilt festival.

Walk for Breast Cancer

The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk at Holmes Park on Sunday was a huge success. There were so many supporters participating in the walk.


It was great to have the cheerleaders cheer us on at the start of the walk.
We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day as we walked around the lake.
It was fun to see all the pink!


Even the trash containers were pink.You can get one at http://thepinkcart.com

School of Fish

I received my fish from Mary Lou Weidman's yahoo group fish swap. I was so excited when I saw the package in the mailbox. There were three groups for the swap because so many wanted to be included. My group had 12 swappers including myself.

Thank you so much to my group members: Sandi Henschel, Nancy McCain, Mary Lou Sanders, Robin Medley, Liz Tius, Reena Kaplowitz, Karen McCaffrey, Karen Schmucker, Michalee Sloan, Sandi Fischer and Beth McDonald. I love all my fish!!!
I would also like to thank Marianna Linfesty because she collected all the blocks, sorted the fish and mailed them out.

I can't wait to put them in a quilt! I'm thinking palm trees, beach, tropical flowers and maybe a ship.

String Piecing

I helped make blocks for the Quilts of Valor at the International Quilt Study Center and what a fun day! I learned about a new foundation for string piecing. We used old telephone pages, but not the yellow pages. The yellow pages are printed with a different type of ink. I was nice to make blocks with all the strips precut, one person ironed for us and another squared up our blocks. The group is so organized.


I was happy to share a table with Judi Thelander. She has been volunteering her time with the group and believes in the cause so much she purchased a long arm machine so she could help out with the quilting. I found out that not only do we have quilting in common, but we both drink Diet Coke and collect our reward points. :)


Here are some of my blocks from today. And, I had so much fun I went home and pieced more blocks.

Making Blocks

I've been working on two twin quilts for a friend. She isn't a quilter and purchased six yards of vintage looking fabric. She's been talking about the fabric for some time at my smocking group. So, I volunteered to make the quilts for her. Since I only have 8 yards to work with I needed to add fabrics and make blocks to get two twin quilts from the focus fabric.


I have been getting up early before work at 4:30 AM and sewing after work to piece the 111 blocks to go with the 110 blocks I cut from the focus fabric. The blocks are 5 1/2" and finish at 5 inches. I'm going to have 14 blocks going across and I plan on making 17 rows. The finish size will be 65 inches by 85 inches. It's been going faster making the blocks first and this weekend I want to get them all sewn together to finish the first quilt top.


Here some of the blocks are sewn together, because I wanted to get a feel of the finished quilt. When we talked about the quilt she didn't mind a cream heirloom feeling. I can understand because she makes beautiful smocked dresses for her girls.