Jannette did a gorgeous job with Kaye’s new pattern, Follow the Squares. And she blogged about it too!

Click here to go to her blog post. And, click here for more in on Kaye’s newest in her Quarter Quilt series!

I read the article about the Cat Blankets and thought I would tell you what one of the things we do here in Cincinnati.  We are the Toy Shop Axillary. We dress about 800 dolls for Christmas  every year for Salvation Army. They are distributed at Christmas time. Parents come in and pick the doll they want to give to their little girl.  All the outfits are made by ladies in the area. A couple of years ago, we decided it would be nice if we could wrap each doll in a quilt. Of course we have quilters that don’t make doll clothes and we wanted to get them involved. The response was great. We have no requirements as to size so each doll now gets two extra outfits and a quilt with her fully dressed doll. The ladies use up their scraps and odd fabrics from their stashes. We promote that it is a great way to try a new pattern and see if you like it without making a full size quilt. They do a lot of strip quilting too  It is amazing what we get. Even scraps can be beautiful. Some women make beautiful quilts and don’t use scraps. I have no rules. Some have batting and some don’t. I have one lady who makes 25 quilts a year-all from her scraps! She swears her stash is not going down as fast as she thought.

Since the group I belong to is only responsible for dolls and books, another group who is responsible for baby gifts asked if they could give some of the quilts to give to real babies. They just couldn’t believe what we were getting from our sewers. I didn’t think the sewers would mind so the bigger ones went to real babies. We found out after Christmas that some of the girls who got them for their dolls used the quilts for themselves! Talk about passing on and sharing a love for quilting.

Kaye’s Spinning Diamonds, by Mary Cole, Certified Teacher

My almost 12 yr old granddaughter, Lanie, made this flannel wall hanging using Kaye Wood’s Octagon shapes.  This will be a special gift for her adult Reading partner from grades 1-5, who is now recovering from cancer and chemo therapy.  Great job.

Thank you for the class. I did the Spinning Diamonds, and was lucky enough to finish after class. I learned 5 major new tips and techniques during the lesson, and had lots of fun doing it. I can’t wait to get started teaching.

This is “Olive”. She is the niece of Kaye’s Son and Daughter-In-Law. This gorgeous little girl is showing off the quilt that Kaye made for her. It’s a log cabin design from Kaye’s Quilt Like A Pro book.

This is a quilt I’ve made to raffle off in remembrance of my two sisters that I’ve lost to cancer.  I made a label for the back.  On June 18th and 19th, I’ll be walking in our local Relay for Life cancer walk and I’m donating all the money to the American Cancer Society.  Last year I raised $395.00 and I’ve already beat that amount this year with two weeks to go!

I received your newsletter today and didn’t realize you were a military family.  I am a retired Air Force Master Sergeant.  I was stationed in Alaska, Korea, Japan, Crete, England, Maryland and Texas.  My daughters grew up overseas and my oldest is now married to an Army man.  The quilt shown here, I made for my dad who was also in the Air Force.  His rank (Staff Sergeant) is represented by the stripes in the top right corner (as you’re looking at the picture) with the old Air Force wings in the bottom right, and the new Air Force wings in the top left.

I am a fairly new quilter and this is the first finished quilt that I have made. I began it a quilt camp in February 2009 for my husband [So he would like me going again this year] and finished it on Christmas morning. I used the pattern Diamonds of Yellowstone and View and Do Diamond Shape.

I made this “One Block Wonder” quilt for my Granddaughters college graduation. This was from one fabric and my first attempt at this type of quilt. It was so easy and so much fun, I can’t wait to make another one.

Attached is the wall hanging I did from your View & Do Diamond shapes. The pattern is Diamonds of Yellowstone.

Click to make the picture larger. This picture was taken at the VDTA quilt show in Las Vegas, NV.

This is a picture of the Teacher Certification class in Las Vegas.

This is my first attempt to make a lap quilt using stripes and prairie points, I have so many quilts with prairie points and fell in love with it. One day surfing different quilt sites I came across Kaye Wood’s show, “How to make prairie points the easy way“.  Made them the Kaye Wood way, I’ll will be making more quits with prairie points. Thank you Kaye so much, I have only been quilting for about an year now, no lessons or anything.  I grew up as a child with quilts on my bed have love them ever since.

This is the quilt we made in in the Las Vegas Certified Teacher Training Class. Then I came home and made one for my kitchen table (correctly)
Love this pattern.  I want to make another as a center for a queen quilt. I used Kaye’s Savage Star pattern.

Just some of my winter quilting.

A block of the month quilt for my daughter.

A lap quilt.

This quilt I made for the annual Moms for Marines picnic….it was a big success again this year.  I have plans already for next year.

Here is another quilt I made for 2008 MOMS4MARINES annual picnic, this one went over so good.  We sold alot of tickets and was able to raise money to send x-mas packages for our troops in Iraq.  It’s a very good cause and the families that come are growing every year.  It is an open picnic for any family that has a family member in the Marines, already in boot camp or going to boot camp, or deployed.  It’s a fun day for them all.  We always have a great time.

Marine Quilts gives quilts to the next of kin of our fallen soldiers to remind them that we feel for their sacrifice. You can go to their website to see examples and to get instructions for donating blocks.