I spent my snow day making fleece blankets with appliques and finishing up a quilt for a missionary at church.

For those of you who asked for details with the pictures, I trimmed the fleece evenly and did the corners by cutting around a stainless steel bowl. Then I just used scraps to make a variety of appliqued shapes ... heavy on the hearts because I had a new Kaye Wood View and Do shape to try out. The edges were turned under 3/8" (the width of my presser foot) with no measuring or pinning and sewn in most cases with a blanket stitch and thread as close to the right color as I had.

The green ones are for a baby and I bound one with Winnie the Pooh fabric and appliqued the other with different hearts ... fussy cut.

The dark pink one is a quillow. Opens up into a blanket or folds into a pillow.

The church quilt is all scraps and meant to be Tuscan colors. The missionaries are usually, but not always men and the church gives a quilt to each missionary that comes to the mission conference in early February.

I washed all of them so that there would be no harmful residue for children or babies and so that the church quilt would look more old-timey.

Beautiful work!!

thanks for sharing, great projects

WARM and GOOD!

I love them all. Just a hint for next time; no insults intended, but you don't have to turn the hem as fleece won't fray. You can just do a fancy stitch or zig zag in a little from the edge. I do mine on the serger, but if you don't have a serger, you can just do a stitch to fancy up the edge. It saves some angst and time. I do the curved corners too, so much easier than trying to make a crisp corner.

Thanks. Sometimes I don't turn the edge. But, I have discovered children pull on the blankets, stretching the edge enough to pop the stitches, even when I use a forgiving zig zag type stitch. The other reason I turned these was to give a more pleasant feel to the edge. Don't ask me what that means... I am repeating what my grandchildren call it. They like the edges turned.

I love fleece to make their names because it doesn't ravel and it is easy to cut letters.

No serger but do have a lot of stitches on my machine that are similar ... just takes longer. Some of these were for January birthdays for grandchildren, some just to give away ... using up the fleece stash.

I went out to lunch and then came home and cut apart some blocks for a strip quilt. I'm still working with Christmas fabric. lol

Oh, I understand what you mean. It gives some weight to the edge, helps it to hang better, in sewing terms. I have found my serger has paid for itself many times over for all the fleece blankets I have made. I have 2 dogs that sleep on my bed, a great dane & a rottweiler so they dirty blankets up pretty fast. So I buy 5 yards of fleece when it is on sale, put about 18" of width on each side to make a nice overhang. I serge the two seams, then serge around the edges and I have great blankets that wash and dry beautifully and are warm at night. I love fleece. You can do so much to decorate it. I have made many for my gkids too with embroidery on one corner in their favorite design. Have fun!!!

Wow you got so much done! Very pretty stuff too!

Great work! You are quick and have good ideas.

Those are very nice and you gave me an idea. I make flannel receiving blankets for a local hospital in need and sometimes a solid flannel is less expensive to buy, but looks kind of plain. I can use scraps from the prints and make appliques. Why didn't I think of that?

Wow, those are great. I love the applique you did. Great job and thanks for sharing.

Great job! Wow, you were really busy to get that much done! Let it snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!!!

all day I have been trying to think of the word"quillow" I was going to post the question on this site. beautiful work

Those are so neat and pretty. Good work.

I spent my day shoveling and scooping snow and recuperating from that!!!

Oh yeah!! I make fleece blankets for the cat all the time. Her window seats are covered in fleece. I vaccum regularly but twice a year, just toss and make new ones. And I keep fleece covers on all the furniture in the family room. Not for the cat, but for the kids!!

Cat is not allowed in the sewing workrooms, but any place where cat or kids are ... bound to be fleece covers. They loves them and it keeps everything else clean.

Sounds like fun to me!

I live in Georgia also and since it was a snow day and I didn't have to work, I slept late, then watched the news where people were having wrecks trying to go somewhere; then I started a disappearing 4 patch. After I finish cooking supper, then I will put on a label and I am through with a baby quilt that my husband will mail tomorrow. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for another snow day; I think I am going to sandwich a quilt.

Snow day is license to sew all day, right? I put off all other work and just settled in. Maybe tomorrow will be another day for you and you can get the quilt sandwiched, Sandra G.

I forgot to say how I spent my day. We get the snow tomorrow. I worked on my WIP, the silk quilt. I have the top and batting quilted together, now comes adding the silk velvet to the back. I have a funeral to go to tomorrow so won't get to the quilt till Wed. I will post when I get done. It will be so COOL, I hope.....

Gorgeous!

Sounds really cool; can't wait to see the picture. Sorry to hear about the funeral though.

You really had a Great day..they are all beautiful :!:

love them!

Looks like a very productive day for you. I wasn't as productive but then I didn't get snow so that's my excuse.

Beautiful, thank you for sharing.

Those little fleece blankets are just too cute for words!!! :-) I absolutely love the quilt!! The missionary is sure to love it!!! :thumbup:

Somehow when I saw this post starting out, I KNEW you were in Georgia!! After reading through, I see that quite a few of us are enjoying our unusual winter wonderland! I finished a baby afghan (knitted) and was going to quilt. Suddenly the snow made me want to bake, so I made homemade bread. I risked broken 70 year old limbs to cross the street and bring a loaf to my neighbor!! Now I am going to work on crumb squares ( have 40 made and trying to decide what to use for sashing) before watching the BCS game at 8:30 pm est!!

The first quilt is beautiful!
The children's quilt are super cute!

I thought about bread too! I usually bake mine instead of buying but decided to give myself a snow day and sew all day for the most part. It is melting now. I went out to get the mail and found a "care" package from my son. Groceries, a phone and some books to read. Hmm, might have to take some extra breaks tomorrow!

It looks to me like the weather is abating here, but I am told in TN that they are expecting more tomorrow and Wednesday. My son and family are right in the middle of moving from PA to TN, traveling in that weather.

Nice to chat with another fellow Georgian!

Thanks for all the comments. The day has certainly passed fast.

What nice work! Loved them!

Very nice! Hoping for a snow day on Wednesday. I'm trying to figure out a wedding quilt for a July wedding.

No real snow here, yet. Saying we are to get 2-4" at least. Most to come in overnight.

All are very pretty, you are so fast.

What kind of wedding quilt? I have some some wedding ring acrylic templates that I plan to list for sale when I get around to it (still have a square to it, LOL). They make a 15" ring.

Or were you just looking for a pattern?

Hi Quilting Addict: My mother's side of the family is from Winder/Statham area. Still have relatives there. We lived in College Park, GA and used to drive up 29 near Bethlehem to get to Statham to visit my grandmother and other relatives. Hope you enjoyed the snow. Be careful walking in it. Bet the bread was good.

Bread was just ok!! I didn't let it rise enough the second time...but, even heavy bread is delicious when it's homemade! I can't believe it's melting somewhere is GA because at my house it's nothing but crunchy non-melting snow!! I've played on here too long looking for funky rooster applique patterns and now it's time for football!!
Sandra G,
Stay safe in Newnan!

I guess I goofed off! LOL. I just made beef stew, from scratch buiscits and peach shortcake for our shut in elderly neighbors. Here in west Tn we got 6" of snow and more coming tonight.I was afraid if we lost power our elderly neighbors would go without a meal. Dh delivered them at supper time.

Sounds yummy to me. I know they enjoyed it and it was nice of you to think of them.

Beautiful quilts! What is the name of the pattern you used on the Missionary quilt? It rocks, but I'm not familiar with the pattern.

Today, I decided it was time to deal with the laundry, so I folded and put all the clean clothes away that accumulated last week while I was working on my postage stamp quilt.

And yes, I spent a couple of hours cutting 1.75" strips to cut them across 35 at a time. I got two groups of 35 different strips cut crosswise 1.75" 22x35x2= 1,520 squares.
It's a lot of work, but it also means that when I collect enough different squares, I can make a rather large charm postage stamp quilt, and if all the squares are cut, I can make 22 charm-type couch potato covers without cutting another square! That's the good days if you're addicted to postage stamp quilts...

Keep up the good work. Your plush quilts are real cuties.