Every gray January I make a ‘Spring’ quilt and this one will be added to the patio series quilts. During our January ice storm, I cleaned sew area cabinets and discovered a bundle of Jody Houghton fabrics. Seemed perfect for this year’s Spring quilt. Had to plan fabrics carefully as I was limited. Added the coral from my stash. Felt like a little relief from the gray and cold.

During the January ice storm, I discovered a bundle of fabric I purchased many years ago for a passage quilt for Providence Hospital. Seemed perfect time to make a Hopewell House comfort quilt. Enjoyed using a Dresden 30 degree ruler and a partial seam.

“Quilt of Valor” This quilt was created from shop hop blocks that I received before we left for Florida. I put it together for Tom‘s cousin In Arizona. We are planning on awarding him this Quilt the first part of April in Arizona.

“Quilt of Many Colors” We did a seven shop shop-hop. At each shop they gave you seven 2 1/2 inch strips. When completing all seven shops you had a complete jelly roll. So I made it into this quilt of many colors for a special little guy in my neighborhood who had a birthday on the 30th of March.

I was asked to do the quilting on the Quilt Guild Auction Quilt. It will be auctioned off this November at their quilt show.

“Purple Rain” What do you do with a baggie of several hundred precut triangles? Sort by value. Search Pinterest for a layout Thanks to Becky Swick, I got to enjoy the gift of “purple rain”. White squares, some gray and the backside of black scraps to continue the ombré background look. Simple edge to edge ruler quilting finished the project. Number 4 Hopewell Hospice House quilt for 2024.

“Bloom” I was given stash from Becky Swick to use for my Hopewell Hospice House quilts. In the box were several finished blocks and strips of fabric. I made strip blocks and joined with the premade blocks using sashing. Borders were made from bits and pieces also found in the box. Enjoyed FMQ using rulers. Hope it brightens up someone’s room.

“Circle of Squares” I saw the block on a quilter’s blog but I do not remember whose it was. After I’d assembled the center of the quilt as I wanted it to appear I had to ponder for awhile just what I wanted to do to make it not square. My original plan was to make 12 blocks, one a month, until I did the math and realized that was a larger quilt than I wanted.

“Purple and Black” Great niece is graduating from high school. Valedictorian with full ride scholarship to WSU in premed! Her quilt request was purple and black. Great grandma Wilma chose the pattern, I chose the fabric. Backed with Cuddle.

“Micromini Easter Eggs” A friend shared her latest foundation paper pieced project and I fell in love. I am not a fan of FPP but the designer had a YouTube video showing an alternate design process which I tried.

“Holiday Snow” I bought the panel because the red truck reminded me of my older son, who used to have a red truck like this one, and because he always has a truck. I used the YouTube tutorial for making 32 half-square triangles in the border.

“Cathedral Fun” My friend is a Chaplin and their hospital had some unfinished quilts in various stages of completion before Covid shut everything down. I’ve offered to help complete some. Someone made this quilt with flying geese using the 3D Geese construction method. This leaves a pocket open along the angled edge. To eliminate the pockets, I turned down the edges as if making a Cathedral Windows pattern. Then added some echo quilting.

“Dawn Chorus” I saw the bird pattern on the Got Kwilts website and downloaded the pattern. I actually took the pattern and converted it to a paper pieced pattern. I paired it with a chain block from the book 101Fabulous Small Quilts from Martindale Press. I quilted with a leaf pattern with flannel on the back.