A Charity Quilt

 On the 10th anniversary of my son's death I retreated to my sewing room. I grabbed the left over HSTs from the Barn Raising and went to work on making a baby quilt with the intention of donating it to the local NICU in memory of my little one who didn't get to come home.
 I managed to sew it and get it quilted and machine bound in the day and have just enough sun left over for a picture outside.

 I'm actually really happy with how it turned out and I added some heavier quilting to this one and I really felt a huge amount of peace just putting stitches into this one hoping that the child and family it goes to gets the prognosis we all wish for.

Another Barn Raised!

 I loved the last one so much I made a second barn raising HST quilt!
Which meant lots and lots more half square triangles, AKA HSTs.
Lots of them.
 Did I mention it was a lot?
And they had to be trimmed?
 No?
They did.
 It took awhile.

This time I used Timeless Treasure batiks, in Lemongrass I believe. I did think about doing an X layout, it was very tempting, since the block is the same either way.

But in the end the barn won out and another one was sewn up! I really like the way the borders turned out and in general how the added white looks.

 What are you working on? Do you ever do repeat patterns?

Barn Raising HSTs

 I've always loved both the barn raising and around the world layouts so decided my HSTs needed the treatment!

Here is a quilt made of from a jelly roll of Hoot Hoot from Moda that I've had in the cupboard for a while.
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Less so with the size being smaller because I miss cut about 1/3 of the triangles but hey such is the way of things and now I' have a bin of 3" HSTs just waiting for their turn.

It's bright and cheery if nothing else!