Grandchildren Quilting

Here's Brandon with the front side of the quilt we made this spring and summer for his dog. Brandon selected the fabrics, decided on the layout and operated the foot feed as we assembled the quilt top and quilted the quilt. Brandon is a very generous young man. The first quilt he made when he was 4 years old was a Christmas Turning Twenty for his 2 year old brother. Then he made one for himself right after that. The back of the quilt is a cat print that Brandon thought was a cool idea for a dog's quilt. The label is one that we designed on the computer and traced onto fabric and colored using Pigma pens.

More from Aug. 2, 2008

This is a second quilt top we created on Aug. 2, 2008. We made most of the string blocks that day and used a cheater cloth panel for the printed squares. This really turned out nice and we were all very happy with it. (If you noticed that the lower right two printed squares are upside down and not keeping with the pattern from the other 3 corners, you are very correct. Since the picture was taken they have been fixed. This top is now being quilted and will return to me for binding.

HeartStrings Quilting August 2, 2008

On Saturday, August 2, 2008, a group of ladies from Eastern Minnesota and West Central Wisconsin gathered to quilt for charity. This is a quilt we created that day. It was inspired from a quilt block called Michigan from the Quilters Cache website. We altered the size of the black triangles to use the smaller triangle trimmed off of the larger square to make the smaller triangle on some of the blocks. The result is a look of a thread spool at the intersection of the black triangles. We now call this design the WI/MN block.

All of our quilts are donated to charity. Some went to the storm victims in Missouri in 2006, some to victims of Hurricane Katrina during their recovery when a group from our church traveled there in 2007, area OB/GYN units, Twin Cities (St. Paul/Minneapolis) Childrens Hospitals, transitional housing for victims of abuse, homes for people in transition, fund raisers for schools, churches and libraries and many other worthwhile causes.