When this war with Iran started, about 2 weeks ago, and we found ourselves using our safe rooms when we were entertaining guests, one of my daughters requested a new quilt to cover the couch in her safe room. I got right to work, and wasn't surprised to find that the piecing and quilting brought me long periods of calm. This quilt measures 54 by 80 inches and can be used as a single bed blanket.
I have been home about a month now, from an extended trip abroad. Perhaps the best part of coming home is the amount of quilting that was waiting for me! I finished four baby quilts and 3 tote bags since I've been back!
Here are the baby quilts. Many thanks to my friend Judy Kupchan for the pussycat fabric!
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My sister's friend just had a grandchild. Here's the quilt my sister chose as a gift --
A work colleague of my daughter's comes from a large family and has a ton of nephews and nieces who are all in their 20's and 30's. So, she has become my biggest customer!
She also likes the idea of giving a baby quilt with a matching tote bag for the new mother! Take a look --
And here are a bunch more baby quilts that she bought this month!
We have been giving these away to friends and family. They are so popular! So here are a bunch more!
It's a hot summer and besides sitting at the pool, it's hard to do anything major. So, we've been both making tote bags as gifts for friends and family.
This past week, in a flurry of activity, I made a bunch of tote bags. Thank you to my friend Sharon Yudewitz for the gift of the funky fabrics.
This is a recently finished couch quilt, featuring the scrappy design. I so much enjoy mixing and matching the fabrics and the colors!
The Bedouin of the northern Negev have suffered during this tragic period, and there have also been stories of wonderful heroism on their part. So, I decided to make this couch quilt (which features a piece of embroidery made by the women at Desert Embroidery at Laquiya) in honor of the Bedouin of Israel.
Since I had another piece of the same embroidery, I also made this double bed quilt for my daughter. It features the same colors and both quilts have a cozy flannel backing!
I made this coexistence quilt for our Riverdale apartment. An oversized couch quilt, meant to match our dark green couch, it features two pieces of Bedouin embroidery. Thank you to two of my granddaughters for their help in the piecing and designing!
This double-bed quilt features a small piece of Bedouin embroidery at its center. The rest of the quilt uses strong colors to accent the embroidery. I designed and made the quilt for my niece who lives in Delaware.
Hope she enjoys it for many years of health!
These placemats were made for my friend who is travelling to Chicago for Pesach. These will be a house gift for her host. The placemats are made using the scrappy design and each one is slightly different from the other. I like these so much that I also made a set for myself!
The squares in this baby quilt are put together with no rhyme or reason. I love the lack of order. Apparently that seems to work!
I've been away for two months, and when I returned I discovered that my daughters had given away all of the baby quilts in my collection. Apparently, they needed a lot of baby gifts! So, I got right to work on replenishing the collection. Here is my first baby quilt. Hopefully there will be more to come!
It's summertime, and I became inspired by an array of summer colors. This couch quilt, made in the scrappy style, combines turquoise and purple! Who would have known that these colors look so beautiful together!
Springtime is a time of gift giving and we are both preparing lots of gifts for our upcoming travels to see our kids in the States.
Hana is making placemats, microwave cozies, and tote bags.
Amy is making quilts, placemats and tote bags. Here are some of them --
My daughter and her husband are moving into a new apartment. Their two boys will get a bunk bed with stairs (instead of a ladder) and the bottom bunk will be a double bed. They say that the double bed is great for sleep-overs, but I know that it will be so much more comfortable for the parents falling asleep while putting the boys to sleep!
I made matching quilts for the new room. Thank you to Hana for the inspiration and for the special outer space fabrics! Look for the spaceships, planets, meteors, and astronauts!
Here is the double bed quilt --
And this is the matching single bed quilt --
My 6 1/2 year-old grand-daughter "needs" a new quilt for a big girl! So, I made her one in the new disappearing nine-patch style, as a Hanukah surprise! I hope she will love the navy blue and orange!
I have been busy making the following three couch quilts, all of them for the winter, with flannel backing. I enjoy making these because they are an easy size to manage in the quilting stage. Usually, with big double bed quilts, I find it very hard to maneuver. But these are fun and easy.
This quilt is in the disappearing nine patch style --
These two are made for my twin granddaughters who share a bedroom. They are made in different styles with some matching fabrics. The top one is also in the disappearing nine patch style.
These two matching baby quilts were made by Hana for our friends who just had another grandchild!! One is a carriage quilt and the bigger one is for the crib. Mazel tov!!
