I used some of the remaining fabrics donated to the New England Quilt Museum by Kay Koenig’s daughter to make another quilt.  I had seen this pattern when we documented a quilt at the museum and saved the idea for the future.  I machine pieced the top, hand appliquéd the circles, then finished it with hand quilting with an undulating feather pattern in the  the green border .  I finished it in July and it sold in August in the museum store for $125. 

Our Carlisle neighbor Kathy Chick asked for a referral to a quilter probably 10 years ago and got my name from the owner of a local quilt shop that has since closed.  When she saw an e-mail about computers from Bob this year, she contacted him to find out if he was related to me. That got us together to finally discuss the quilt she needed finished. The label I added to the quilt says, "This Cathedral Windows quilt was begun by Nathalie Alma (Martel) Chick in Wells, Maine. She was born on Sept. 18, 1914 and died on Dec. 3, 2009.  It now belongs to her son Richard and daughter-in-law Kathy Chick in Carlisle, MA."  I agreed to add the last row to the quilt using fabrics found with the unfinished quilt after Nathalie’s husband Francis died in 2011.

When our cousin Kate Reid packed to move to France, she gave me a bag full of dog bandanas to use in a quilt.  Each fabric was different and had fun prints representing dogs and many different holidays. The triangles were too large for my idea so I cut smaller triangles, arranged them on my design wall like a rectangular spiral of "flying geese" and used the turquoise fabric remaining from my "Swirling Plaids" quilt made last year for the background.  It will become a twin bed size quilt for a child when my Quilt Guild has it's "Quiltathon" in March  2026 to layer 100+ quilts for various charities.

I still had lots of fabric left after the previous quilt so next I made a smaller one of diamond shapes with a navy background fabric.  The pattern was inspired by this antique quilt I'd seen and admired when we documented it years ago.  It's the right size for a lap quilt for an elder, maybe for use in a nursing home or with a wheel chair.  It will also be  finished when my Quilt Guild has it's "Quiltathon" in March  2026 to layer 100+ quilts for various charities.

When I told our friend Christine that I made quilts for our Quiltathon, she asked if I could make a quilt for her. Since she's in a nursing home in Nova Scotia I told her I could make and mail her a wall hanging. She loves trees so I found this pattern by Peggy Aare in Wisconsin that could be done in different fabrics for different seasons. I added 3 tiny red birds, rolled it up and shipped it to her in October. Here's a photo taken by a friend of the quilt on her wall.

When Ben was a baby I made this counted cross-stitch cover for his baby photo album.  Four years later, Jon was born and I was twice as busy.  I designed this album cover for him and completed the center but not the border of yellow leaves.  For many years, when I sat through hours of debate at New England Town Meetings in the school auditorium, I took this project with me.  Finally in November, I finished the last leaf.  Both albums needed the embroidered pieces made into fitted slipcovers for the albums.  I'm pleased with the results now that Ben is 50 and Jon is 46.