Yesterday, I shared Super Secret project #3. Now on to Super Secret Projects 1 & 2.
A little background about these projects. It has become a tradition with my sewing bee that if someone leaves the group to go to the mainland, we give them a quilt to say “aloha”. We had one member leave this month and one that will be leaving next month… we wanted to throw one big “aloha” party and give them their quilts.
Project 1:
This one was for Linda. She has a “travel” wall at her house of all the places she has been. so we thought it fitting to give her a bit of Hawaii for her wall. A lot of the ladies made her a block and this was mine:

I used some of my hand dyes and made my pattern for the wonky pineapples a bit smaller…
Here is the whole quilt:

Super Secret Project #2:
Holly loves owls. For a while now, I have been sending her links to owl patterns, fabric, etc. because she just loves them. When she announced that she was moving back to California to help her parents out, it was a no-brainer as to what type of quilt we would make her…. an owl quilt.
I had the perfect block in mind. One from Bejeweled Quilts. I enlarged it a bit so that it would fit a bit nicer on an 8” block and gave everyone instructions to make owls in their own personalities:
Here was my block before stitching the edges down:

Yep. Those are prairie point blocks to make the feathers. So like me, it is a bit anal and a bit “fluffy”.
Here is the whole quilt:

Both ladies loved their quilts. They both cried a little. I am glad to have known both of them and will miss both of them immensely!