IRAQ BOUND

One of the ladies in my online quilitng group was looking for volunteers to help make quilts for her husbands squard leaving for Iraq. Here is the one I got to make for one of the soldiers. Doing these is such a blessing for me.

VICKY'S FISH QUILT

Here is my latest comfort quilt. During the fires in Texas a couple of months ago there were 16 fireman that lost their own homes. I was blessed enough to get in on the project to make each of them a quilt. Here is mine using some fish fabrics.

RUTH's TASTE OF HONEY

Here is the Taste of Honey Ruth completed last month. I finally got it quilted for her and she's taken it home last week to add the binding. The colors really came out pretty on this one. Great job.

Kathy has a few tops ready for quilting so we'll post adter they are finished.

KATHY's NEWEST QUILT

I don't have any charity quilts to post pictures of yet this year so I'm posting that ladies regular ones. Here is the latest Kathy made for a friend of hers. It's a queen size. Came out beautiful. Great job Kathy.

Ruth has one at my house ready to be picked up. As soon as she's added the binding I'll post a picture here also.

NEW PROJECTS

Hopefully I will have some new projects to post here soon. The ladies did not meet in August but we'll be doing the Split Decision quilt in September. Ruth has her Taste of Honey done and I just finished quilting it. As soon as she comes to pick it up I'll post a picture here. She did a great job. I believe Kathy has a large rose quilt just awaiting binding as well.

Check back soon and I'll get the blog updated. My quilts are on my blog at victoriasquilts.blogspot.com

JUNE WORKSHOP

The ladies meet this weekend for their June workshop which was UFO day. I believe Ruth is working on her block of the months and Kathy is finishing up the rose colored lucky star she is making for a friend. Ruth did bring her Taste of Honey quilt top completed from May's workshop. As soon as she has it quilted and bound I'll post pictures here. I believe next month is a tablerunner but I'll have to see if I remember what pattern I sent everyone.

MAY WORKSHOP

The ladies meet this month to work on a top called Touch of Honey and UFO's. Ruth started her touch of honey and brought along 2 tops she finished and had ready to quilt. I got those done over the weekend so as soon as she has them finished I'll post the picutres here if she wants me to.

Kathy brought along the star blocks she started a while back to work on and a baby sized puzzle box top she had ready to quilt. Thats done so when she has the binding added I'll post a picture of that as well. Look for some new pictures soon.

Kathy's Cornhusker Quilt

I finally got a picture of Kathy's cornhusker quilt and wanted to post it here. She made this for a soldier serving in the military with her son overseas. He was from Nebraska and what says Nebraska better than corn. Great job Kathy.

2 NEW CHARITY QUILTS

Here are my charity quilts 1 and 2 for 2011. They both also qualify for no buy quilts and UFO's finished. The orange one is one I cut up and made one sqaure about a year ago. Thisis the pattern the ladies were learning in the January meeting. Once they get finished I'll post those pictures.

The purple one looks like it has a bit of yellow but it doesn't. I took the picture in the bedroom and I think they light was shining on the camera. But it still looks pretty.

No. 2 for 2011

I'm posting this on Faithquilters because I gave it away as a gift. It's the Prism pattern in the Fons and Porter magazine. I think it came out really pretty.

MY NEWEST

I have this posted on my personal blog but I put it here as well since it's for someone else. My daughter wanted a quilt with purple and orange for her friend. I got every shade of orange I could find but I had to add some greens as well. I think it came out really nice.

PRISCILLA'S QUILT

I think I may have forgotten to post this quilt. Priscilla joins us sewing once in a while and this is a quilt she finished in December I believe. It is really pretty.

READY FOR A NEW YEAR

The ladies met in December and we had an in-house lunch and worked on UFO projects. Now we're gearing up for the new year. We'll be meeting the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month. The 1st is just for anyone that wants to come sew and the 3rd will be a planned day as we've done in the past.

I'm trying to get a little more organized this year so I actually set up a schedule of projects for the year. Beginning in January we'll rotate every other month between a project and UFO days. January starts with the pattern Lucky Stars (picture attached) and then February is UFO, a project in March, etc.

I tried to be a little diverse this year and add in some smaller projects like tote bags and purses so the ladies don't get so many UFO's. I'll post their pictures as we roll along in 2011.

SEPTEMBER PICTURES

Here is a picture of my Prism top I made for the ladies sample. Also included is a picture of Kathy & Ruth sewing. Jean got away before I could get a picture.

SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP

Wow I can't believe I missed posting the pictures for the September workshop. I've been trying to find a house to buy and it's very time consuming.

The ladies worked on a quilt called Prism from the Fons & Porter website. Jean, Ruth and Kathy all got a good number of their blocks finished before leaving. I'm waiting for every one to finish the tops so I can post the pictures here. They all picked some really great colors.

NON-QUILT RELATED

Ok I'm not donating him to charity and he's not a Faithquilters project but here's a picture of my great nephew, Trenton Michael. He was born last Friday.

RUTH DOES IT AGAIN

Like me, Ruth fallen in love with the Magic Tile pattern. Here is her latest. She is really getting some quilts finished. She's got a t-shirt one in the works now.

RUTH'S BLACK & WHITE

Just realized I forgot to post pictures of Ruth's 2 latest quilts. She did a really nice job on this black and white quilt which I believe is going to her other sister. Good thing she decided she likes quilting cause her sisters love them. Great job Ruth.

THANK YOU FOR RECENT DONATION

We revceived such a nice letter today from the Assistant Chief of Police at the Lakeland police department and I wanted to post it so all the ladies can read it. We donated some quilts last year and 6 more this week. Hopefully we'll have several more at Christmas. Here's her note.

ONE MORE UFO BITES THE DUST

Here's the other UFO I was able to get off my list. This was originally started as a comfort quilt for my sister. Back in April she was injured and I wanted to make her a purple quilt. Well with tax season and trying to help her family and such I ended up giving her a blue and white one I already had finished. So this one will now join the comfort quilt pile until it finds it's new home. I'm sure whoever gets it will love it as much as she would. It's a Twisted 9 Patch but once I took the photo I saw an error in one spot on the layout. However, it's quilted and bound so it's staying the way it is.

This also counts as one of my no-buy quilts for 2010 since I bought the fabric in 2009. Check out my personal blog for the other UFO's that aren't comfort quilts. I only post group quilts here.