A couple of police quilts from me

I am calling this ;one "Grey flannel" simply because of the grey flannel setting squares.  I have no idea where the grey flannel came from, but I had just enough to add to these random cut 2" squares that I've been using as a beginner/ender quilt for some time.  As you may be able to see in the photo, even the binding is scrappy.  I LOVE pulling things from my stash and then using them up!  (Not that you can notice a dent in any part of my stash)

This is "Stars Over Bethlehem" from Mystery Quilts Anonymous (MQA)  Again, raided the stash, and had such a good time piecing it.  I love all the different animals in it.  My only regret is that many of the larger animals were cut apart, so you can't see all of them.  Still a personal favorite.

 

"Forest Colors" by me

My biking buddy Ted has partnered with his "Sweetie" Ellen, so there needed to be something to celebrate the occasion.  I know that Ted likes darker colors, but I don't know Ellen well enough.  So I asked Ted.  His response "Forest Colors" and then pointed at a kid wearing camouflage pants."Like that."  

I hand dyed the fabrics and the pattern is from Mystery Quilts Anonymous, and the official title of the pattern is Power Glitches. 

 Since Ted and Ellen like to camp, I was thinking of a forest theme throughout.  Green trees with brown wood, blue skies, and yellow sunshine shining on the camping trip.  Quilted with Pine Tree Trio .

 

Two more donation quilts from me.

Last summer, while coming home from work I happened upon a garage sale where someone was clearing out their stash.  Thankfully, I was only about 8 blocks from home.  Much farther and I don't think I could have kept it all in my bike bag.  This panel was in that day's haul, and all I did was quilt it.

 This is another one from Mystery Quilts anonymous. The actual name of the pattern is "Sending Love" and it was designed to go to Ukraine to support the people there.  II have called it "My heart is broken" after the obvious mistake in the one block.  New rule for myself.  I MUST hang up all quilts and take a good look at them to find those missed blocks before I quilt them.  Now that this is quilted and bound, it's just a bit too late.

Photo dump of my quilts

Here's a bunch of my quilts.  My friend is having a significant birthday next month, so I am "gifting" a stack of quilts to her party for people to take and give to police officers in their area.  She is the mom of Tom, so this is in support of her, as well as Tom.  

This one is called "Child's Play", from mystery quilts anonymous (MQA) Since it's child's play, I chose a quilting design that kids could look for things.  This is the Rainforest set, so all kinds of animals and birds.  Black backing and gold thread so that it would show, doesn't photograph accurately.

Parrot

Gecko and leavesComodo dragon? and a gecko

Japanese Mystery from Heart to Hand.  This is a really old quilt top that I've been waiting to quilt "until I'm good enough."  Well pooh on that, just finish it!  All computerized, and designs placed in the squares and triangles.  I would much prefer edge to edge on computer, I don't like having to reposition all the time.  Good learning for me though.

Sadly, this is called "Forgotten mystery" from MQA because I don't recall the name of the pattern.  Then when I had it totally quilted and bound, I found the huge mistake in the left corner.  Oops.  Someone will hopefully not care too much.  Quilted with City of Light panto

Eye Spy.  We all have that stack of 5" squares.  Well I finally put them to use.  A bunch of leftover small orange squares too, so there was my sashing and cornerstones."To Celebrate this Day" a wedding gift for my friend's daughter.  The pattern is really "Attic Stars" from MQA, but I've called mine something more fitting for the recipient.  All hand dyed fabrics, and so much fun!  The dark purple is Imperial purple, Bubble gum for the pink and Parakeet for the background.  All hand quided heirloom quilting.

  The backing is Mist Grey dye.  I'm loving hand dying fabrics!

"Log Cabin Stars" by me"

This is another quilt from the group "Mystery Quilts Anonymous"  Since most of my quilts are for donation, I usually make them scrappy.  Sometimes they turn out great, others I king of think "What was I thinking?"  This one probably falls some where in between.  I sill like it though.

 Quilted in gold thread with a piece of black backing the magically appeared.  The panto is called "Jim's Stars and Stripes".  The quilt is currently in the car waiting a chance to find a police officer to give it to.

Several police quilts from me.

This one is called "Soul Mates", and is from the website "Mystery Quilts Anonymous".  This is a quilt that she (Debi) designed to celebrate having 5000 people following her facebook group.  Of course, I went with scrappy, but I still think it really works

This one is also from Mystery Quilts Anonymous (MQA). and is called "Crossroads"  Again, scrappy, but it will help to keep someone warm

Finally from the website "Wedding Dress Blue" this is officially called "Growing up Odd"

However, I have chosen to call mine "My Favorite Color is NOT Orange"  

This quilt started for me by doing an internet search for quilts using 2" squares.  We all have those bits that are too big to throw away, but too small to keep.  So, when I find scraps, I cut them to 2" and throw them into my shoebox storage system.  Then I used the piecing of this as a "Beginner/Ender" quilt.  There are 2425 squares in this quilt, and since my favorite color is not orange, that's what I chose to use for the sashing.    The name further comes from my darling nephew Jackson who was about 6 years old and learning to ski.  I made all of the family ski sweaters, and asked Jackson what colors he would like.  He responded "My favorite color is orange Auntie Beth!"  My thought, horror of horrors, I have to knit an orange sweater!  Well it was blue with orange and green accents.

 The rest of the funny part is that as the kids grew, and grew, those sweaters no longer fit.  So, I made "grown up" sized ones.  Jackson ended up being 6'7" tall, so his "grown up" sweater probably doesn't fit.  While at a family gathering recently, our newest nephew in law arrived in a sweater that looked so familiar to me.  We finally figured out that it was Jackson's grown up sweater.  Cody, the new nephew is about 5'7", and it fits him quite well.  And it made me so happy to see how well the sweater had held up after all these years.

"Star Crossed" and "Love Conquers All" by me

Here are two from Debi of "Mystery Quilts Anonymous" on Facebook.  Star Crossed at the top, and Love Conquers All at the bottom.  

Star crossed was pieced first, and put in the pile for quilting "someday".  Love Conquers All is the most recently revealed mystery.  While finishing this one up, I kept thinking that it needed to go to my co-worker Kim.  She and her family are foster parents, and I think that the way she and her family are sharing love needs to be acknowledged.  

I was getting ready to quilt this quilt, but finally realized that with 7 people in their family, one quilt, and a smallish throw at that, wasn't going to be enough.  So, Star Crossed was also quilted.  

Since greater than a year ago, some Minky fabric was left behind, this was the perfect backing to use for both.  I"m glad that these will finally find a good home.

 

"Knights and Dragons" by me

This is actually another mystery quilt from "Mystery Quilts anonymous", but I am not taking the time to find the correct name.Besides, this name fits so well.

The focus fabrics were found on yet another bike ride.  I think this one was a 2 day Seattle to Portland.  We rode it in 2 days because darling brother Joe had to ride the Elliptigo.  He did the whole route, but needed 2 days to make it.  So, an overnight in Centralia, WA resulted in a quilt shop!  Had to steal fabric from my friend Xande who I knew had bought some of the same.

At first, I was so happy that they had included a "girl" knight in the fabric. You can tell she's a girl, there's a bow on her helmet.   It wasn't until I took this photo that I realized that the girls were left behind at the castle.  No dragon hunting for them.  Still the fabric is/was darling.