Hi fellow quilters, friends and family.

I had planned to share William's quilt with you this time, but I ran into a little competition. I have a friend who is battling cancer and undergoing a rough regime of chemo and I wanted to do something for her, so I made her a quilt!

This was made using a couple of the charm packs that I bought at the quilt show here a couple weeks ago. I bought a green coordinating print to go with the squares on the front and another green to go on the back (which I didn't have enough of, so added some fabric I had on hand) and here is the finished project.
It is a "rag quilt" and goes together pretty quickly. I cut 5" blocks to make a 4 patch with the charm packs, then cut the back squares 9 1/2" and layered 9 1/2" flannel squares in the center. I stitched the X across all block sandwiches, then stitched it all together; I washed it twice after clipping all the seams (whew, that takes a while). Start to finish, it took about a week to get this one done. She loves it!!! Yeah!!

On Monday, I received an invitation to a baby shower that was to be held on Thursday. Since I had just finished Deb's quilt, I decided to tackle a baby quilt. I dug out what flannel I had on hand and started whacking away.

Here is what I came up with!! We know it's a boy, so I used this cute blue print with boats. I cut all the blocks 7" - even had to piece a couple of blocks to have enough for this layout (I think I had 1/2 yard of the boat print).
I didn't put anything between the top and back as they were both flannel and I didn't want to make it too heavy.

I created this little boat with my software to stitch on it; this serves as the quilting (I don't want to do an X all the time!!!), and I stitched it on each block with my embroidery machine. Usually when I use my embroidery machine for quilting, I have the quilt all together first, but on this one, I thought the seams would be a problem, so I stitched the blocks first, then stitched them together. This process takes a little longer and I must say that just stitching the X would have been a little faster. Speaking of fast - I started this gem at 5 am Wednesday morning and finished with only 1 washing at 11:30 pm and I did work, make supper, and go to prayer meeting that day as well. Superwoman - yes, by the way, I am!!

ps - I updated my slideshow, so check it out again, sorry that I cannot add the new quilts to the voting process - it won't let me, but when I get all quilts done this year, I'll update the whole thing and ask you to vote again - won't that be fun????

Living and Loving,
Shirley