Late for the party...

but not the last dance.

I signed up to participate in this years

H2H Charity Quilt Challenge.

hosted by Sarah

http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com.

I started out with a bang, then life happened.

Got back on track and now finished except

for the washing and drying.

This year we could choose between 2 charities.

The youth ministry at Sarah's church, the one that she and the Sewing Sisters

make those beautiful quilts for,

go to New Orleans about three times a year to help

 Hurricane Katrina victims, Project NOLA. 

Yes, there are still some feeling the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

This is the first quilt for the NOLA project.   We were to make a quilt for school age children.  I wanted to make two quilts for this ministry because I have 2 boys.

Love how this one turned out, actually I love how all of them turned out.

I went with my ever famous Trip Around the World.  I thought it would make a good boy quilt.

For some reason when I kept looking at this quilt I thought of the ocean.

So I quilted waves in the borders.

This next quilt is also for the NOLA project.  This was not planned, it just sort of

happened.  I had some strips left over from Stevie's teachers quilt and was trying

to decide what to do with them.  I actually thought of this when I was trying to go to sleep one night.

After I finished piecing the top I noticed I had a rather large blank space.

See it down there at the bottom, oh that's right I cut out some circles and then there was no blank space.  Good cover up.  Originally, I was going to name it Dashes.  It has a new name now

Dots and Dashes.

I quilted an all over meandering on the white and didn't quilt the dashes and dots

so they would be puffy.  Kind of float on the quilt.

Very pleased with the look.  I thought both quilts could be for a girl or a boy.

Next quilt is for Happy Chemo. 

Emily at http://emsscrapbag.blogspot.com

is making quilts for Happy Chemo.  Her goal is 1500.  I thought

this would be a cute quilt for a little girl.

This is my second quilt for Emily.  I wanted to make 2 quilts for Emily.

One to honor my father, a cancer survivor.

And one in memory of my MIL, who lost her battle with cancer in 1998.

She would love the yellow quilt.

I hope each one will bring comfort to the new owner.

Check out all of the beautiful quilts at

http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com