A Lovely Year of FInishes - August

Not even the end of the month and I have already finished my goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes.  Can you believe it?!?  I am so excited to say that the 4 memory quilts that I have been working on for the past 2 months are completed and to their homes.  Part of the quilts were my July goal (July finish) and then the rest was my August goal (August link).

Fair Warning - this post has a ton of pictures for these 4 quilts.

Quilt 1 alternates between a block with 2 - 4.5"x8.5" bricks and a block 4 - 2.5"x8.5" strips. It is quilted .25" outside the seam of each block.

  

Quilt 2 alternates between a block with 2 - 4.5"x8.5" bricks and a block 4 - 4.5"x4.5" squares.  It is quilted .25" outside the seam of each block.  

Quilt 3 is done in the subway tile pattern.  Each tile is 4.5" x 8.5 ".  I quilted on both sides of the seam of each row.

Quilt 4 is done with 2.5" strips and 2.5" squares.  This idea came from a quilt I saw while searching through quilts on pinterest and through the necessity of using the pieces that I had.   It is stay stitched periodically in the ditch across the quilt and then 7 pairs of vertical lines are quilted into the quilt, too.   In the end, I think this one turned out to be my favorite.

Each quilt is different because the 4 recipients of the quilts had their own special relationship with their mom so I felt they deserved different quilts.  I made sure to put special pieces of the clothing into each quilt, saving as much of the embroidery as possible.

All 4 quilts do have the same backing, a pretty leaf print.

I had a helper when I was trying to take pictures.  Spooky, my neighbor's super friendly cat, came to check out the quilty fun.  

Can't wait to link up at the end of the month and see what everyone else has finished for A Lovely Year of Finishes this month.