Nana Loves Quilting and Vintage

It's time once again 4 this week's project quilting. Sounded simple enough to me, pixels.  Of course I knew what they were and so used my friend the internet to find an image that I could turn into a quick and easy quilt project. An image that came up was a darling little dolphin that immediately reminded me of my sweet granddaughter Caroline who has her stuffed dolphin, Dolphy. Dolphy is Pink and she really loves to carry him around with her. Not having much choice of my pink Fabrics I was lucky to get the perfect fabric for this project that allowed me to show a bit of dimension in the piecing just using squares. Okay, I can do this! But, it took me much longer than I ever figured it would. Of course then I was unlucky enough to end up with a problem with my back, probably the ruptured disc that I fight with on an ongoing basis. But starting Thursday I created a portrait of dolphy. The pink dolphin will go and live with Caroline after our local quilt show. Don't expec

This new Project Quilting Challenge number three is a fun one "Bigger than a Breadbox"... It can be any color any project any theme as long as it measures at least 16 by 8 in. It's nice to have the freedom to create something simple and something that in this case will be very useful. Every year my quilt group in American Fork,  Utah makes  placemats and mug rugs for Meals on Wheels to be delivered to their patrons sometime in December.  So for me this cute Santa and remnants from my stash came together for this Project Quilting challenge Bigger than a Breadbox. Just some simple quilting and someone will be happy to receive it come the Christmas season.

The Second Challenge in the project quilting world is red white and blue or any combination of those colors. I decided I could play around with red and white since Valentine's Day is just around the corner. I have the Twister template small and thought it would make a fun valentine heart wall hanging. I gathered together 5 inch red squares and white fat quarters that were in my stash and took it all down  down to St George Utah for our annual Night Group quilting retreat.  I asked one of my friends if I could borrow her twister book but alas she couldn't find it so I figured I could just wing it with images on Pinterest.  Had the grid all laid out and sewn together then came my first mistake! In order to make sure that you have a nice image you have to make sure that your Border in this particular quilt is white, otherwise confusion Reigns. I chose to use one of my very favorite Fabrics in red, oh no! Second thing you needed a much larger space than we had at the condo to l