More Coffee Cozies

 I made a few more seasonal coffee cozies to surprise my sister-in-law this week.

I got the pattern (which was free at the time) at AppleGreen Cottage here.

Cutting It Up

 Although it makes my school bag much heavier, I have been taking my cutting projects with me when I substitute teach as the high school.  It helps the time go by quickly.  Don't worry, I'm careful with that sharp object around students and make sure I do not leave it unattended!

I'm also being careful to label everything and keep the pattern with it.  I have a feeling that these "kits" will go onto my someday pile.  I'm going to put them in a special "kit" bin so that I know where they are.  I know I have something simple to put together if I ever run out of leaders & enders.  

Bitcoin Crib Quilt (Pattern Design by Bonnie Hunter) Progress

I worked on this little crib quilt this past week.  It was fun using up ALL of the scrap prints in my bin!!! The bit is empty.  I did not use neutrals.  The neutral bin is still full.  I LOVE the look of this little quilt.  This is the first Bitcoin quilt I have made.  I see more in my future.  You can purchase the pattern from Bonnie Hunter's site Quiltville.com.

Donation Quilts for North Carolina and Kentucky

 I have been working on decluttering the quilt room.  I have been having a hard time parting with some things.  But then a really good cause came up -- hurricane victoms.  I loaded up five totes of quilts of various sizes and took them to my church.  Some of our church family will be delivering them to North Carolina and Kentucky tomorrow.

I feel good about this.  Now I have room to make more quilts!  I am working on Bitcoin now--pattern by Bonnie Hunter.  You could purchase the pattern and support Bonnie here.

Coffee Cozy -- Pattern from AppleGreen Cottage

 My sister-in-law requested a couple of coffee cozies:

This seemed to be a fun place to use her grandma's buttons.

Then I found this fun print in some scraps someone gave me last week.  My sister-in-law LOVES dogs (and all animals for that matter.)

Sometimes she sets her coffee cup down on the checkout belt at the store for some reason.  The checkout clerk sometimes looks for a price on it.  Ha ha.  Then I know she goes on and on about how I made it for her.  I have it on a glass because I typically don't have any paper coffee cups in my house.  But it fits the ones she buys while out and about perfectly.  She keeps them in her car.

I got the pattern (which was free at the time) at AppleGreen Cottage here.

Five Small Memory Quilts

I quilted five memory quilts for my friend that I sit by in church.  I put them all on the frame together and used the same backing.

I butted them together and just kept quilting with Circle Lord Swirls.

 A lady at church asked me to quilt her Bethlehem Star quilt.  She has worked so hard for a few years to piece this quilt for her daughter.

Here it is in front of my husband's pepper "garden".  (He has six pepper plants that he grows in buckets.)

She requested that I quilt this one with Circle Lord Swirls Giant Template Board.  

The yellow thread that I had on hand just sunk right in to this quilt and did not take away from the beautiful design.

I sit by this friend in church most weeks.  We always talk about how God brought us together one evening at a church dinner.  We just happened to be placed at the same table because of how many people were in our group.  The other couple at the table knew that I was a quilter and mentioned something that she saw me post on instagram.  That was the start of it all.  We then couldn't stop talking about quilts and flowers.  She is amazing at growing flowers!  She loves to save seeds and share them with friends.  

Below is a picture of my poppy plant from earlier this year.  She gave me this plant start.  I carefully planted it in the "protected area" of my chicken yard.  I don't want the chickens to destroy these plants, but the dirt in this area is so rich that I don't want to give it up to the chickens.  I do let little chicks in the area because they don't seem to do the damage that the big flock does.  But isn't this poppy stunning?

I decided to move the ornamental grass out of the protected area after the poppy finished blooming.  I have plenty of it on the property.  I'm making room for more beautiful poppies next spring.