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Happy Friday, quilters! I know many of you, like me, are looking at a cooold weekend ahead, so let's have some warm quilts.

The first few quilts from the Scrappy Mountains Block Drive are done and ready to show. These first couple were quilted by Kathy on her long arm.

Speaking of block drives, there's a new one at the end of this post!

Becky in South Texas has been a godsend to help with assembling block drive blocks into tops. She made all the tops in this post and chose the layouts. I think she did an ...

Happy weekend! This post is full of quilts that either came in without a now or return address ...or possibly I misplaced my label along the way. If you see one you recognize please let me know! 

This beautiful jelly roll race was sent in as a top and quilted up by Linda. I love the design with the navy blocks and the fabric line is really pretty.

Next, this wild animal top was sent in along with backing and quilted by me.

And finally there's this little applique wall hanging. I thought about taking the binding off and ...

Happy Friday, quilters! This week's quilts were all tops from Priscilla which were quilted by Linda on her long arm.

Priscilla never fails to make the most cozy and beautiful scrap quilts. 

The multi colored thread Linda used on this one complements it perfectly.

I've just gotten back from a nice trip to Santa Fe visiting friends. It's always beautiful up there and so relaxing. 

This quilt with the yellow squares and the strips would be good for a block drive. I can see a lot of options for layouts.

The panto Linda used on this one ...

Happy Friday, Quilters!  The first of the quilts from our potato chips block drive have started to be completed. This quilt top was made by Bonnie and quilted by Linda.

You can see the quilting panto more clearly from the back 

Next top by Edna, quilted by Linda. Things continue to go along well here. I recently to a big delivery of quilts to the two Tyler hospitals. As flu season is starting along with an uptick in covid they are unfortunately busy. 

The cats and I are well. They're really enjoying more catio time as the weather gets ...

Happy Friday, Quilters! Almost a year ago 2 friends worked together to make 5 quilts top for CiL, they even shipped a bolt of fabric for backing. We seem to have finished all of Suzanne's quilt tops first, so Kathy's will be upcoming. This first one is Suzanne's top quilted by Linda. 

This next mosaic top was also made by Suzanne and was quilted by Doris on her long arm. Thank you to all our volunteers!! 

Becky M. has recently started to help with assembling blocks into tops and she's done most of the Scrappy Mountains ...

Happy Friday Quilters! Recently I was fortunate enough to meet one of CiL's quilters in real life! Linda has been quilting for CiL since 2020 and has quilted over 150 quilts for us on her longarm. 

The two quilts in this post are some of her own that she has donated. It was wonderful after years of emails and boxes going back and forth to actually meet. We browsed a quilt shop and had lunch after she was kind enough to pick me up from the airport. 

It's always a treat whenever I get to meet volunteers in ...

Happy Friday, quilters! All today's tops were quilted by Linda on her long-arm machine. This one with the shades of brown was made by Amy

This gigantic and beautiful batik top was made by Diane and would have been a beast to quilt on a domestic machine. Thank you Linda! 

It's a gorgeous quilt that someone is really going to love.

This pretty trail fence top was sent in by Kathy. You can see that I was fighting the sun to take these pictures. I also got a sunburn.

Pretty swirls on pretty fabrics.

Last for today, another ...

Happy Friday, quilters! I have more of Christy's shirtings quilts to show off this week.  I absolutely love this first one with its flag-ish pattern.

Linda quilted this one on her long arm and did a wonderful job.  Up close the blocks don't align perfectly, but I think it adds to the overall rustic-ness.

Next, this zigzag quilt which reminds me of Charlie Brown.

This one was also quilted by Linda and looks wonderfully cozy.  (I apologize for the crappy indoor pictures. I needed to photograph them so I could take them to the hospital, and the weather ...

Happy Friday, Quilters! It's the first block drive finish since we started back up. These three quilts are from the Mod Mosaic block drive we did in Jan-March this year. 

I sent all the blocks we got in to Linda and she assembled and quilted them. I actually love how these came out. They look better in person than they do in the photos. 

At long last we have the wrap up of the Sept/Oct 2022 block drive with Scrap Bin Geese blocks! This was the last block drive before we went on our hiatus. CiL's wonderful volunteer quilters have been working very hard to get us caught up.  Linda assembled and quilted the first quilt, photographed on the swing.

Pam did the assembly and quilting on this quilt. There were 6 quilts from this drive in total and you can see the others here and here.  This was based on a quilt my do. Good Stitches circle did a long time ...

Next Dee quilted this very pretty, soft, flowery pink quilt. It's a little bit hard to make out the quilting pattern, but maybe you can see it in the photo below. It's a large flower motif with leaves.

The rest of these were quilted by Linda, starting with the small masculine quilt ...

At long last, I think all the quilts from the Jan/Fab 2022 string blocks are done! This isn't the wrap up post, but it should be the second to last batch. 

I noticed this little embroidered dragonfly hiding on one of the blocks. Little surprises like that are the best part of scrappy blocks!  

All of the quilts in this post were finished by Linda on her long arm. These string blocks would never have gotten done without Linda's help!

windmills and the Eifel Tower

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I love this time of the year! I love the lights and the music and the cooler weather, the only problem is it goes by so fast!

All of the quilts in this post were made my one of CiL's faithful long-armers, Linda. 

Linda's been working hard the past few years helping to assemble and quilt our block drives, but she also makes her own quilts and sometimes donates them.

Linda has a great eye for color and pattern and she is a busy bee! She's one of the folks who keeps CiL afloat.

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