Better late than never

 I'm a little late getting these pictures posted, I wanted to allow plenty of time for the recipient to receive it via USPS since it was a surprise for the family.

This is my final quilt of 2010, I finished it on Dec. 31st.

I used the fat quarters from my December 2nd post to make the quilt.  To make the label for the quilt back I used the "uniblock" font from Monogram Wizard Plus.

I have to admit the picture of the quilt didn't turn out as well as I would have liked mostly because there isn't a whole lot of room to lay out a quilt in a motor home to achieve the best picture angle.

Can do

I was looking on the Robert Kaufman Fabrics web site today and saw this retro quilt pattern titled "Kona Dots".  I love the colors and the "feel" of the design.  I was day dreaming about the colors I would use then I quickly came back to reality and realized there are squares and circles in each block - holy smokes!
Luckily the designer, Amanda Murphy, used fusible web to attach each circle to each square.  I decided THIS I can do and went back to day dreaming.

The Quilt Angels

I want to share with you a special lady and the wonderful way she shares her talents with others.

Lynn Graves, who owns the BEST quilt store called "Little Foot", located in Chama, NM, has a project that is dear to her heart she named "The Quilt Angels".

Lynn and other volunteers piece the quilts, another volunteer in Santa Fe does all the quilting on them.

The quilts are given to the New Mexico State Police station located in Chama for children who have been displaced for one reason or another. Each patrol car has at least one quilt in the trunk for that special child.

The NM State Police are not the only organization Lynn supplies quilts to. Some of the other organizations are the Battered Women's Center, the Elder Hostel, the North Central (NM) Community Based Services, and the Santa Fe Quilting Guild who distributes them to the Children's Cancer Center at Christus-St. Vincent's Medical Center located in Santa Fe.

My show and tell

I had some "fat quarters" in my stash of fabric and I wanted to use them. I also have a quilt book titled "Totally Tubular Quilts" that I had never explored. So I said to myself, "This is a good time to experiment with this book and to use those fat quarters." .

I decided to make a table runner and use the chevron pattern. If you zoom in on the picture you can see all of the different pieces in the design even though some of look like one. Please don't look too closely at my piecing, it wasn't until I was almost finished that I realized the secret of matching the seams and I WAS NOT taking the whole thing apart.