Thursday, May 12, 2016

RSC16 week 20

SPRING GREEN

Happy, happy springtime!  A friend picked me a little bouquet of lilies of the valley, my favorite flower with such a delicate fragrance.  I can enjoy it every time I pass by.  And out on my deck a little house finch is perched on the railing, singing his heart out.  Bird songs are very special to me also.

Here is my May RSC16 16-patch block with a happy dancing bear just out of hibernation.


I chose green also for my Modern HST Sampler block Diagonal.  I have some beautiful green prints from Barbara Brackman's William Morris Jewels collection.  Since this one is a floral I also chose a lime green tone-on-tone floral to give a springtime effect.



My next WIP is the pinwheel row quilt I started last year.  To use more of the fun fabrics I had gathered I made this braid strip.  It was too short so this week I added a couple more strips and trimmed it all up.





The highlight of the week was Monday.  Our Monona Quilters group of about 50 members here in WI  held our semiannual charity quilt collection.  A total of 172 quilts of all sizes were collected for local charities such as Project Linus, a local veterans group, homeless transition housing and others.  Here are the quilts before we posed with them for photos.



I'm very proud to be a member of this active and generous group which meets weekly for show and tell.  They give a lot of encouragement and support to all the members.   We also have a giveaway table after the meeting where we can find many goodies and many of these reject fabrics are turned into lovely charity quilts.

I linked up with Rainbow Scrap Challenge at 
soscrappy   and Blossom Heart Quilts at Blossom Heart Quilts  

20 comments:

  1. Great work with the quilt charity! Your green blocks are looking good!

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  2. Great job by your guild to provide so many quilty hugs. Love the little bear and owl in your 16 patch block.

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  3. Love that green 16 patch, especially with the fun animals and other prints!

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  4. Love the bear! And the doves are very fun too. The lime green looks lovely in your second block. And wow--172 quilts is very generous!

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  5. The bear may be dancing, but the owls look like they're saying 'Uh-oh. Bear...' 8)
    That's a fantastic stack of quilts! Hurray for all you quilters and your generosity!

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  6. Your 16-patch block is adorable with bears, owls and doves! And that HST block is to die for. I think that Modern HST thing sounds interesting - will have to look that up. What a great group of quilting women you have!

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  7. Beautiful saturated greens and HUGE kudos to you and your group for all of those comfort quilts!

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  8. Well it shouldn't be hard to guess that my favorite is the 16-patch with hooting owls and a bear.

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  9. Love that Wm Morris with the lime green combo. Yum. And, of course I love novelties so have to say that 16P is a cutie.

    Yay for donation quilts!

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  10. Beautifully rich greens and good for you helping out with charity quilts.

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  11. Awesome work with your charity group! Well done to all of you. Cute little bear you found coming out of hibernation :-)

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  12. birdsong... I was just thinking how good it sounded this morning.

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  13. Great green blocks this week! Kudos to your quilting group - what a wonderful way to give back to the community!

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  14. Congratulations on a wonderfully successful charity quilt drive. That's a lot of quilt!
    Love your fun greens. Such a cut little bear, owls, doves and musical instruments. Novelty prints here and there make a finished quilt more interesting.

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  15. Your quilt group sounds very much like ours. You're so fortunate to be able to "play" with them. I'm tending toward the spring-y greens in my RSC blocks too (not that I've made very many yet!).

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  16. Beautiful greens in your very spring friendly blocks.

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  17. loving all the green the group meeting looks fun to belong to

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  18. Sounds like spring is in the air and in your heart Paula. Lilly of the valley are lovely, how nice of your friend to pick them for you. Lovely blocks, I have to go with the majority and say I love the 16 patch, great fabric choices.
    Smiles
    Kate

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  19. Nice green blocks. You group made lots of quilty hugs. Good job.

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  20. 16 patch with fantastic greens, so cute the little bear and the owls. I had problems with the internet, from Saturday to Tuesday morning, almost lost the linky party. I would love seeing all those quilts openned. Congratulations for being part of a great cause. Hugs

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