Hands 2 Help Check In: Two More and One on the Way

Welcome to Treadlestitches! 

 Two more quilts are ready for donation for the Hands 2 Help annual drive.

Here's an I Spy baby/child quilt made from 5 in. squares.

Novelty prints, plus bananas in the border.
 

Next, Hourglass four patch in bright colors.

Mostly NOT novelty prints, except for these cats in the border.

Those are done, and will be going to Project Linus next week.

Next, this one is the one on the way.  I'm layering it up today, and might even get some of the quilting done.

It's a little farm quilt, with lots of cows and chickens and a few sheep.  Oh, and John Deere tractors.

Right now I've got an old Loretta Lynn song going through my head, called One's On the Way. When looking it up this morning, I learned it was written by Shel Silverstein of Where the Sidewalk Ends fame.  Who knew?

I love seeing what everyone is making to help others.

Happy quilting!

Linking up to Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

 

Two Little Tops

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

 

It's been a busy week here at Treadlestitches.  It's spring break for the grand kids I babysit, so we had lots of fun but the quilting just didn't get done.  I did find time to piece two little tops for Hands2Help, and they'll be quilted soon.  I hope.  The first one is the I Spy quilt above.

I'm trying to use more of my 5 in. strips and squares this year.  Many of them are novelty prints (which I love!) and I Spy is perfect for them.  I chose 48 squares, 6 each of 8 colors, and set them with a colorful dot fabric left over from another quilt.  It was tough finding even six novelty fabrics in orange (do I need to go shopping?) so it was on my mind when I chose the orange solid cornerstones.

The border is this banana print, from 1992!  I found it at a flea market last summer.

My little guys let me interrupt their playing for a photo.

I hope this will be a fun quilt for a child.  It was a blast to make!

So was this one, that I'm calling Hourglass Four Patch.  I tried something new with it.  The hourglass units are made from charm squares.  I wrote up a tutorial for it, click HERE to see it.

For this quilt, I chose mostly saturated colors and just a few novelty prints. 
 

The border is this fabric that I call "Big Kitties".  I was so happy I had enough left of it, after using it in other quilts.  How can you go wrong with purple, orange, red, and green cats?

The grand kids posed with this one, too, but they were getting tired of being models and ready to go back to playing.

I'm so lucky to have such good helpers.  I did get my Buddy to pose one more time.  The thing he's hugging is a giant roll of poly batting.  Wonder how long it will take me to use this up?  Especially since it's one of TWO giant rolls!

I'm experimenting with different ways to use the batting for charity quilts.  It's lightweight, soft, and warm.  

Sorry about all the dark photos, it's been raining here lately and today we've got a little snow, which must be annoying for all the robins that are back.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

Cheers,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy   The Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for April is purple!!!  Hurray!!!

Cynthia at Oh Scrap