Textile Tuesday - Wedding Quilts

 Quilt for former student and his husband for their wedding.

 Quilt for formers students new step-son.

Quilt for Nephew and his bride.

 

     I seem to have made more quilts in the past two months than I have in the past two years.  What with everything that needed to be done towards retirement and the last year working, getting settled into the new routine at home in retirement, and then the busy summer with our long road trip, I seemed to have left behind my crafting joy of quilting for a bit.

          I started in April and May for the quilt for my Nephew and his fiancé for their wedding.  It was a simple pattern, the snowball block, but the tediousness was in cutting 154 squares and then making sure I had 616 smaller squares for the corner triangles.  I used a jelly roll for that part which made quick work.  I got the top done but didn't quilt it until September after we got back from our trip in July.  In August I started on the wedding quilt for my student and had that mostly done and quilted that in September before we left for my Nephew's wedding. 

     When we got back, if fiddled around and then decided that  fat-quarter pack I had would make a nice colorful quilt using the Yellow Brick Road pattern for my former students fiancés son.  Little kids don't always understand all the attention directed at others and hey, when Justin and Phillip are cuddled up under their quilt, Koebryn can cuddle up under his.

     And now I am busy working on a quilt for our new grandson for Christmas.  Following a design that my Grandma made for all of her grandkids at the time in the later 1960's.  I've decided to carry on the tradition.