Spreading a little love and joy

Two little word banners I made a few months back

are spreading some love and joy

in a nursing home in my city.

The chaplain sent me these photos of the banners (two sides of the same piece)

in place in the chapel area of the multi-purpose room.

And that's not a quilt in the bottom right photo, but a tile mosaic on the wall.

Be still

I've posted before about this banner of free-pieced letters that I made for my church.

It's made of batiks and hand quilted in a vine pattern.

Last Sunday it was officially blessed as part of a dedication for the new prayer room.

It hung from the pulpit during most of the service

(yes, the last word is hidden here.)

And then it was hung in the new prayer room, which is the door at the right of the photo above. 

The room was painted and decorated around the green/blues and taupes in the banner.

The (ugly) green carpet figures prominently in these photos.

We all know it has to go, but it hasn't happened yet.

Anyway, it's nice to see a project that was so long in the making finally hanging in its new home.



we need more off the wall action!

I've got lots going on on my design wall


a couple of table runners: the one on the left from a kit I won from Mrs. Moen in Norway. Beside it is one made from those selvage blocks of a few weeks back. I rearranged them to make a table runner instead of the baby quilt. And then there's those scrappy buildings, a few nine patches...


Here's a block from green scraps leftover from my banner....
Lots of piecing going on, not so much in the finishing department.