Saturday, September 30, 2017

Fifth finish -- Hugs

I love making baby quilts & take any opportunity to make one.
Your neighbor's second cousin is expecting? Does she want a quilt!?!

My recent opportunity was not quite so oblique. The woman who does my hair. She's very sweet, has a 10 year old son & is awaiting a daughter at the end of October. A quilt is in order!

This was made entirely with materials on hand -- both pleasing & slightly embarrassing to me.
Anyway, the quilt, Hugs, along with a baseball pillow case for the big brother, has been given to the growing family & they were quite pleased with both.



Monday, September 04, 2017

Fourth finish -- Del Mar







Del Mar is finished, but rather than folding it away to use on the bed in the coming winter, I put a sleeve & label on it & packed it up to ship -- because it was accepted into the Made in Texas exhibit at the Texas Quilt Museum. I handed the quilt over to FedEx on Friday morning 25 August -- that night hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast between Corpus Christi & Houston. Over the next week we got nearly 46 inches of rain, but unlike so many unfortunate Houstonians, we did not have water in our house. I won't go into the drama of the week, except to say that it was rough watching the horror unfold on television. Again, Shug & I were safe & dry, but it was hard to see our city struggle.

My quilt, Del Mar, inspired by houses on the Texas Gulf Coast, sat somewhere in the care of FedEx. I was not really worried about its whereabouts, just wondered if it might be sitting in muddy water somewhere. Then I thought, if it was in muddy water, I would just wash it as best I could & the quilt would tell a slightly different story about life on the Gulf Coast. But it arrived safe & dry in La Grange (which had its own bad experience with Harvey).