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A new blog button has been added to the left but it doesn't go anywhere! I just loved the message. Thanks to new MBQG member Tina Belding who gave me a button she had made from the graphic.
I went to Tula Pink's website and downloaded the image which she has given anyone permission to do. So quilters, go to the Tula Pink blog, grab a button and support a local quilter!
Back in January I delivered a pile of preemie quilts to the NICU at the IWK Children's Hospital in Halifax. I wrote about it here and my encounter with a Dad who just wanted a pink quilt for his daughter.
A pink quilt for a tiny baby and her dad.
I had accumulated another pile (87!) quilts to go in to the hospital so while I was at my quilting bee, my husband delivered them to the NICU. I asked him to inquire about the baby girl and the pink quilt. Knowing the hospital is very conscientious about privacy I doubted we would find out much. I guess I just wanted to know that she was ok...and she is! She had just been sent to her "home" hospital (the IWK is the only children's hospital in the Atlantic Provinces). So she is much closer to home now and I am sure her parents and family are thrilled to have her there. I hope the pink quilt is keeping her warm! Many thanks to the quilters from the Mayflower Quilters Guild and the Mahone Bay Quilt Guild for their continued wonderful support of this project. I am truly grateful.
Several weeks ago I did a trunk show of my quilts at the Mariner's Quilt Guild. As I went through my quilts, deciding what to take from an almost 39 year "quilting career" I came across some favourites from many years ago.
Windowpane" (machine pieced and hand quilted) for Kate, my first quilt after many pillows and wallhangings. I started small, I didn't want to get discouraged. This was made in 1973, there weren't any quilt stores here then, I bought fabric wherever I could find it. Remember Woolco? They had one of the largest fabric departments around and a few cottons. This pattern came from an early magazine MacCall's Quilting. The quilt is starting to show it's age. It has survived a crative daughter who loved to draw (with markers) in bed! It has kept 2 rough and tumble grandsons cosy and is now frequently found wrapped around the base of a Christmas tree. I love seeing it being used, worn and all.
Amish Pinwheel (machine pieced and handquilted)was made in 1987 after having worked through the exercises in Roberta Horton's Amish Adventure book I made this quilt. In keeping with Amish style I used several different blacks (at one point I had swatches of 27 different blacks!). I loved making this quilt. There is something wonderful about pinwheels. While I was making this quilt, Kate put her name on it, she loved it and it has been graced a bed in her home ever since. I must go back to the Amish style. I still have a good collection of plain fabrics.
Underwater, a small wallhanging (machine pieced and handquilted) in the style of the traditional pattern Chinese Coins. I have used this pattern before. Again I found this in Kate's collection! Good thing she lives close by.
I loved sharing my quilts with the quilters at the Mariner's QG. It was a good exercise to go through, putting the quilts in a bit of order chronologically for the first bit then by type - applique, contemporary and bed quilts and I finished with a few WIPS. It also gave me a chance to take some new digital photographs of the quilts.