Monday finishes and design wall

At my retreat last weekend, I worked on a little quilt

from the solid scraps leftover from my star quilt.

I pieced and quilted it on my Featherweight

and it is destined for Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative

once I figure out a name for it.

Framed squares in 9-patch

28 by 28 inches

This little crib or preemie quilt is part of the Year of Baby Quilts challenge

for my guild, where we're making donation baby quilts

out of stash and leftovers.

I found four of these green and off-white blocks in my parts drawer,

made five more, and backed it with a leftover bit of Minky

These two little banners (14 by 20 inches) are on my design wall right now.

I've quilted them without a backing

and I will bind them back to back

once I figure out exactly how tall to make them.

They are going to hang from the lecturn

at the nursing home where my friend is a chaplain.

At the retreat, we all received a canvas bag.

"women of the cloth" is a fun play on words,

since I don't think any of us are ministers or clerics.

"Quilting at the Edge" refers to the name of the retreat centre,

Wilderness Edge.

My friend Kathy gave me a strip of this woven fabric

and I used it to decorage the bag and

make a little zippy bag, attached by a clasp,

for the inside of the bag.

I'm  linking up with Judy at Patchwork Times.