Strippie quilts

We make lots of strippie quilt kits, and many members make their own strippie quilts to donate. Cute and fun! See the sidebar for a link to Mary's website where there are directions for this (and other) quilts.
Cute, isn't it? Here's a close-up of a bulldozer quilt.

Dinosaurs!
And doesn't it look like party time in this close up?

So many strippies!

We have made so many wonderful Quick Strippie quilts using Mary's pattern (see sidebar). Here are the highlights from the many quilts of this type we donated over several months. A bright and happy fish quilt!

And for the rest, just closeups so you ca see the fabric choices. Here's a wild animal quilt.
Fun in the skies.
Let's go to the circus!
Meow!
And more circus fun.
Monkeys playing.
Dogs galore!
Lady bugs in the dandelions -- an outdoor quilt for Camp Coco.
Sponge Bob Squarepants.

Trucks and cars

Some kids are fascinated by trucks and cars, and these quilts are made for them.
Here's a closeup -- this one has lots of construction vehicles and also tools! A double winner!
Race cars!

And a closeup of the fabrics usedin another race car quilt.
And of course, a quilt with the king of trucks -- a fire engine!!

Cowboys!

A recent National Project Linus conference had a cowboy theme, where Talese made this adorable cowboy quilt. You could adapt this idea to any theme.
We used some donated cowboy fabric to make this strippy quilt for some young cowhand.

Rainbow Bright Strippies

Guild members donate lots of wonderful fabric for us to use in Project Linus quilts. We were given two different rainbow stripe prints, and those are wonderful at making bright prints pop! They're ideal accents in strippy quilts.
Here's a close-up. The dots play well with the stripes -- the kitty cats seem to love them!
Here's another quilt using the rainbow stripes.
This stripe pattern was much bolder.
It really picks up the colors of the elephants!
As always, we're so grateful for Mary's Quick Strippie pattern! (See link in sidebar.)

Camp Coco Quilts

Here are photos of 3 quilts the Illini Country Stitchers donated to Camp Coco this summer. Camp Coco is a camp for children suffering from cancer and various blood disorders. The quilts all have an outdoor theme.
If you click on the photo of the quilt above, you'll see all the bugs in the green and the flowers in the multicolored squares. We used a simple pattern, Streak of Sunshine from Quiltville.
The other two quilts in this post are from Mary's strippy pattern (see sidebar). The two closeups below show the fabrics more clearly.

Animal strippy quilts

Rainbow zebras and lots of jungle animals.
Grandma Bunny made a strippy with this adorable dogs.
Duckies love the rain!

Cowboy strippies

Giddyup! We used Mary's strippie quilt pattern to turn our cowboy fabrics into adorable quilts. (There's a link to Mary's patterns in the sidebar.)
Look at the great quilting Joe did on this one -- you can see it in the closeup below.

Noah's ark strippie quilts

We've been making lots of strippie quilts using Mary's great pattern (you can download a PDF with instructions for the Quick Strippie here). We had several Noah's ark prints donated and used them this way.

Here's a close-up so you can see the fabrics in the one above:
And here's a closeup of another made from yet other ark fabric.

Froggy Camp Coco quilts (ribbit!)

Every summer Camp Coco hosts children with cancer and blood disorders. The Central Illinois Chapter of Project Linus gives each child a summer, outdoor-themed quilt to keep. Here are a few of the donations so far this year -- as you can see, frogs are a popular choice!
Don't you love these colorful, tessellating frogs?
Look closely at the center squares and you can see some froggies peeking out at you!
These squares are also jumping with frogs.
This bordered strippie quilt has some cheerful frogs --
--as does this one! Thanks to Bunny, who made the last two. (Often we don't know who made which quilt, but we do know that all are made with plenty of love!)

Wish Upon a Star

We had three strip quilts donated that used the same "wish upon a star" fabric but different solid colors.


Our longarm quilter, Joe, did a wonderful job with the quilting, filling the solid spaces with interesting designs. He even used glow in the dark thread!