Butterflies Take Over My Garden
Summer Quilts
For our summer in Minnesota I packed materials to work on several quilts for Project Linus, and here are five that I turned in when we returned to Las Cruces…
Pandas in Bamboo
Pink and Black
It was not intentional, but three of my last quilts for Project Linus just turned out to be pink and black. In April I wanted to use up part of…
Noah's Ark
Noah’s Ark
This project is a descendant of one of my Linus quilts which featured a fabric panel with a group of jungle animals. Some friends who saw a photo of that…
Bunny Hop
Bunnies and Bees
Spring has arrived in our backyard, with the bees madly working the rosemary flowers and a mourning dove raising her nestlings right in the Argentine giant cactus. There is also…
When Cats Wish Upon a Star
Canines and Felines
Looking back at the quilts I have made for Project Linus over the past five years, I was struck by how many gravitate to birds, insects and critters of all…
Catching Up
Quite a hiatus since my last quilt report. Quilting gets a little complicated for me during the summer. In 2023 we spent six weeks in Minnesota, visiting Russell, Julia and…
Katya's Animal Crackers
Quilts for Grandchildren: Part 2
While celebrating our first grandson's sixth birthday last week, I was remembering making his baby quilt. "Ilya's Aviary" was one of the last projects that I quilted by hand. It…
Daniel's Puzzle
Quilts for Grandchildren: Part 1
The women in my family have always made quilts. The oldest one in my collection is a hand-quilted white-on-white coverlet made by a great aunt around 1939. The newest one…
Dragonflies and Cattails
Five Months of Linus Quilts
As we approach the middle of 2023, I am still on track to meet my goal of making two quilts per month for the Las Cruces chapter of Project Linus.…