On to Operation Shower

The traditional guild I belong to supports Operation Shower which provides baby showers for expectant military families. As part of my downsizing and destashing efforts, I've given several small quilts to the friend who collects our donated quilts and takes them to Operation Shower.

Small quilts that I made just for the enjoyment of making, or that were potential pattern prototypes or whatever, that have been hanging in a closet for years, are now going to new homes where I hope they'll be loved, or at least used.

Craving, 1997

Made because I had been hand quilting on a black Amish-inspired project 

 in black thread for months and craved some color. 

Won Honorable Mention ribbon, The Quintessential Quilt 1997. 

Unfortunately the purple border looks much too neon bright in this photo;

should look the same as the dark purple within the quilt. 

Modern Strip Quilt (later renamed Blue Strip Tease)

2012

Pattern prototype

Pink Strip Tease

2013

Pattern test and cover sample for printed pattern

Flying Four Patch, 2013

Pattern prototype, never published

Linked, 2012

Pattern prototype using a jelly roll, except that the strips were 2-7/8" wide and I had to 

trim the width of every strip in the roll. It would have been easier to cut from yardage! 

It turned out to be a two sided quilt because I thought the original light side was kind of 

ho-hum so I remade it with brown sashing using the rest of the same jelly roll. 

Celebrate, 2013

Using a very traditional book about value to make a modern quilt. 

This was exhibited in STLMQG's first quilt show in 2017. 

Named because it reminds me of confetti streamers. 

Hexies from Leftovers, 2013

Using leftover and rejected triangles from making from this quilt, trimmed down to half-hexies 

for the front.  More of the unused black and white whole triangles make up the back.

These quilts will do far more good out in the world than stuffed in a closet somewhere. And since storage space will be at a premium in my new home, it's better to give them away now than to continue to store them. I hope they become useful for the families that get them.