And today let's hear it for the Number Fourteen!

That's right!  Number 14!  This is the 14th finish. 
This summer while in Idaho the three girls (we were missing Kimberly) and I did some shopping.  Really what is getting together with your girls if you can't do a bit of shopping!  We wandered over to JoAnn's it was so nice of them to accomodate our travel schedule and have a GIANT sale.  I let all the girls pick fat quarters (they were on sale for a really good price) to make 2 charity quilt tops each.  And since today is Dawnise's birthday I will feature one of her tops!  It turned out darling Dawnise...great fabric picking!  AND Happy Birthday!

 These little rubber duckies are so cute!  I am sure they will make a little one smile.  Dawnise pickes this darker blue because it looked a bit like water....It really does a great job of picture framing the quilt.

 I picked the yellow bubble dot fabric for the backing.  I was pretty confident about it until I had the quilt quilted and then I wasn't sure I liked it, but by then it was too late!  I quilted it in a light blue thread in the Tidal Wave pantograph....you know there are occasionally tidal waves in the bathtub with little ones in there....

 Washed, Folded and Ready to be loved!

 I bound it with my newest favorite technique!  Seriously how did I live so long without binding quilts this way!  I really like the blue and green togehter in this binding!

Thanks Dawnise for another cute quilt to send off to kids in needs!

Where have I been....

Sometimes when I look at the date of my last post I wonder..."Where have I been?"  Well I guess I could do a little recap...I am afraid it may get long, so I will apologize now and try to do better later.  I have been busy working on my goal of 50 quilts before 50.  Somedays I think I can do it and other days well I just feel old and slow! (she says with a smile and wink). 
I have kind of modified my quilt goal as I have had several opportunities to serve in a bit of a different quilt way, but blankets none the less, so I feel like they can count.
First I was asked to get blankets ready to be tied for a service project our young women did in connection with their girls camp this summer.  I readied 7 of these blankets for them.  Quite honestly I can't remember where they were going...but they were a lap size.  Work involved I felt like I could count 3 towards my quilt count.

 Then I helped and I am still doing some of these...with a project our Stake Relief Society sponsored in connection with the RS Broadcast the end of September.  We did several items for our local foster care organization.  Our county services 4000 children each year!  I know holy cow and heart-breaking all in the same breath.  We did these little comfort blankets.  I did 10 before the event (I was actually out of town for the event).  Here are the ten.  I am doing more and will post those later when they are complete.

 Love the ones with ribbon tags!  Honestly they are the easier of the two to complete.  But the little picots or prairie points as I call them...are SO cute! 

 Here is front and back of what the next four more looked like.

 A stack of 4 finishes!

 All the supplies for these ten were taken from my stash and ribbon bucket.  Now that feels good to have it here and be able to accomplish something with it.

 Again the front and back of the next group of 4.  I love this little owl print...so retro and fun!  The backing is a white with bright pink and lime green dots...oh so sweet!

Well that is enough for today!  Pretty good catch up and it brings the totally to 13!  A far cry from 50 but I have several completed just need to bind them and many more of these little comfort blankets ready to make or have finished.  I will be posting more completes this week.  The clock is ticking...must hurry!