Bear Paw Quilt & Wonky Stars Quilt

I just donated these two quilts to Wrap the World With Quilts. I first made these quilts in 1998 and 1999. The Bear Paw quilt I made for my daughter when she was a teenager in high school and the Wonky Stars quilt I made the year before in 1998. They weren't used much at all. Sat on their beds for a few years and then when they got older and moved out on their own, they didn't take the quilts with them. I saved them for years, thinking they might want them one day, but no. So rather than keep them tucked away in the cedar chest, I decided to donate these quilts to some people in Ukraine so they can use and enjoy them and bring them hope and happiness. I left the labels on each quilt with the date made and to my daughter or son. I registered the quilts online with Wrap the World With Quilts, and said where I wanted them to go and wrote a note to the person who will receive the quilt(s) that I made these for my daughter (or son) and wanted to pass them along to them now. They were made with lots of love and I hope the recipient can feel the love that went into these quilts. I hand quilted them too as I had no idea then how to machine quilt them and I never even knew there were any longarm quilter back then.

These were also made many years before I started blogging, so I wanted a record of having made them here on my blog.

I got an email these were shipped. Safe journey quilts.

Bear Paw made out of mostly purple and green batik fabrics, my daughters favorite colors at the time. She has since changed her favorite color(s) many times over the years and I have no idea what her favorite color is now. I over made a lot of the bear paw blocks at the time, not knowing how many I would need. I turned one into a pincushion, so I will always have a small reminder of this quilt.

I remember hunting for purple and green batiks for a year or so before making this quilt. Buying a fat quarter or more every place I found some I liked. 

I made this Wonky Stars quilt for my son. He loved looking through his telescope at night at the moon and stars. I wondered if he might study astronomy or get into that field one day, but no he didn't. I think he still does like astronomy though.

All hand quilted.

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Pieced Batik Quilt with Orange Border

Years and years ago I made these batik quilt blocks. I remember batik fabrics were stacked up and then I cut then with the rotary cutter into several angles. A stack and slice technique. Then I took a piece of fabric from each stack and arranged the block and sewed the blocks together, so all the blocks had one of each fabric in the block, but each was a different shape. The blocks were set next to each other, turning the blocks in different directions. The result was nice like a crazy quilt without the embroidery stitches. But the piece was rather small, so I put it away for many years, not sure what I would do with it. I took it out recently and thought I should finish this, so I cut a border to make the quilt wider and longer and then quilted it with a serpentine stitch. The border really made this quilt look great and it is large enough for a child to cuddle under. I will donate this quilt to Wrap the World with Quilts.

Quilt measures 34.5 " x 44.5".

Closeup of quilt.

Closeup of border and serpentine quilting.

Label on back.

Flannel llama print for the backing. Flannel is soft and warm for a child to cuddle under.

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Stay at Home Round Robin Quilt (SAHRR) 2026

My SAHRR quilt is finished! Quilted and binding done. I will be donating this quilt to Ukraine via Wrap the World With Quilts. The quilt measures 34.5" x 40.5"

I backed the quilt with the purple and orange floral fabric that is a flannel fabric and added this label that started off as a quilt block for the front, but it was too large and didn't work, so I made the smaller Friendship Stars on the front instead and saved this block to use as a label.

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Appliqué Sunflower Quilt Block Donation

I am donating this quilt block to Wrap the World With Quilts.  They are collecting Sunflower Quilt Blocks for the Ukraine Project. I donated a couple of quilt blocks over a year ago to them. I also donate quilts and quilt tops to them when I can too. I need to make more quilt blocks, tops and quilts when I can. 

12-inch finished block (12 1/2" unfinished).

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Framed Squares Batik Quilt Top

I made these quilt blocks years ago and decided to sew them into a quilt top. Will donate this to Wrap the World With Quilts.

Closer look.

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Panel Quilt Top with Scrappy Pieced Border

I finished another panel quilt top. I added the pink inner border and the purple/turquoise print outer border and sewed scrappy blocks in black between the borders. 

Donating this to Wrap the World with Quilts.

Top measures 45 1/2" wide x 59 1/2" high.

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(Disney) Tangled Panel Quilt Top

I was given this quilt panel and I decided to make a border of scrappy free style log cabin blocks using my black fabric scraps. I cut several 1-inch squares first in all the colors that are in this panel: pink, purple, yellow & green and then added the black fabrics around the colored square. Since I used fabrics that had black backgrounds with some colors too, those squares don't pop out as well as I would have liked, but I did want to use up a lot of scraps. I made more blocks than I really needed for this, so those will either border another quilt, or be made into a scrappy quilt alone.

I knew this was a Disney Princess, but I wasn't sure which one as I just don't keep up on all of this Disney stuff anymore. I found out she was from the movie, Tangled, which is an adaptation of the Rapunzel fairy tale.

I will be donating this to Wrap the World With Quilts when I have more quilts and tops to send in.

The pink and purple borders are part of the panel, which made it easier to not have to add any inner borders first.

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Seed Packets Quilt Top

I made the blocks for this years ago and finally added a couple simple borders. I donated this top to Wrap the World With Quilts recently. A volunteer will quilt it.

I forgot to measure this top, but it is about 36" x 49".

Seed packets with courthouse steps strips.

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Scrappy Purple Quilt Top with Sunflower Appliqué

I made a scrappy quilt top using up my purple scraps and then added a sunflower appliqué in the corner. I donated this to Wrap the World With Quilts. They have volunteers who will quilt it and then it will be donated to someone. 

The quilt top measures 49" x 49". It feels good to use up so many scraps to create a quilt. It takes more time to sew scrappy like this, but also it's more rewarding to use scraps.

Sunflower in upper left in this photo. I wasn't sure if adding more sunflowers would be too much with all the scrappiness of this quilt already, so decided on just one. 

I used a fusible web and cut out the center of the fusible web so the sunflower wasn't too stiff once I fused it, but you can see the edges of the petals are darker as the fusible web shows through. Never had that happen before. Hopefully it will be quilted nicely and won't be as noticeable. The fusible web also wasn't adhering as well as it should. It could be the batik fabric it didn't adhere to well?

Lots of different shades of purples in these scraps.

The quilt can be placed with the sunflower in the lower left corner like this or the upper left as in the first photo, or turn it again so the sunflower is in the lower or upper right corner. 

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Sheep with Balloons Fabric Panel with Scrappy Pieced Border (quilt top)

I am trying to use up some panels I have by adding borders to them and donating to Wrap the World With Quilts, so I added scrappy pieced blocks to create this scrappy border for the Sheep & Balloons panel. I sent a box last week to WTWWQ and included this top and 5 other tops, along with 5 quilts that I had made a while ago. I love that I can send them completed quilts or tops and they will get them quilted. I can make a top faster and easier than wrestling to quilt it myself! Plus, I can send more tops in a box too. It only costs $20 to mail a large box to WTWWQ using Give Back Box (info on WTWWQ website). That is also the way I send purses to Sew Powerful through Give Back Box, which makes it affordable to ship through UPS. 

This quilt top measures 50.5" wide x 59.5" high.

Such cute and funny sheep on balloons. It is actually a growth chart panel.

I reduced my orange & yellow scraps too 😁, so win-win.

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Bee & Clover Panel with Pieced Border & Sunflowers

I am trying to use up some panels that I either bought or were donated awhile ago. This panel with bees and clover was a long narrow panel. I knew it needed side borders to make it wider, but making it too wide might look odd or take away from the panel? It's always a challenge to know what to do with panels. I wish they were more equal in width and length before adding borders. 

I first added the black inner border to define the panel. I knew I wanted to make a couple of appliqué sunflowers to add some interest and color and add some kind of border too. I came up with this border on the sides that looks a bit like zipper teeth 😄. I didn't have enough of the 3 border fabrics to make a top/bottom border, so decided to use the bee print on top/bottom. I am not wild about that, but maybe when someone quilts this, it will look better? I am donating this quilt top to Wrap the World with Quilts, so I am sure it will be used and I hope loved too. 🤗

This quilt top measures 34" wide x 59" high.

I used machine blanket stitch on the stem, leaves and petals and that stitch that looks like rickrack for stitching around the center of the sunflower.

Closeup of the bee & clover panel.

Pieced border.

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