Helping QuiltySister

My sweet sister, Betty, is home in Nova Scotia, for a visit.  She lives in Doha, Qatar, with her hubby.  They left Canada almost 20 years ago and have lived in several different countries.  It is far too hot to stay there for most of the year so she spends time between Calgary, where her three grown sons live, and Halifax/Prospect, NS, where she grew up.  She is four years younger than me and we are very close.  She has been quilting for a while and tries to join a guild wherever she ends up living..  She finds making decisions on her quilts very difficult so she usually brings home her quilty dilemmas to me to help her with.  This time, she brought home two UFOs that have been languishing.   I helped her decide on fabrics for borders and backing etc and also helped with trimming up her tops to get ready to add borders.  Got the borders sewn on and they are now ready to machine quilt.   We hope to get them basted and a start on the quilting tomorrow.

"Japanese Puzzle"

Warm quilt, Cool quilt

I needed to kick back and take it easy today, so I sewed!  I have been super busy lately and needed some time to myself.  I have been wanting to make a Jelly Roll Race quilt for a while now.  I bought a Kona neutrals jelly roll at the Mahone Bay Quilter's Guild Yard Sale last spring.  It contained strips of cool greys and whites and warm beiges and browns.  I wanted to see how these tones would look all sewn together and a strippy quilt seemed just right.  I wanted to add some interest so I used a ModaMini called "Mixed Bag" that I have had kicking around for a while.  Perfect little 2 1/2" squares that I added in between each addition of the 2 1/2" strips.  No cutting! Sweet!
I like how it turned out and I think I will quilt this up for a special young man who will be leaving the province soon to study in Newfoundland and hopefully return to Nova Scotia as an electrician.  This special young man has been a friend of our family since he and my boys were in junior high. May add a border or two since this special young man is 6 ft 5". 

Hope you had time to do something quilty today!