Riding The Orphan Train

Define what you are striving for in your orphan blocks quilt. Is this about being "green"? Are you trying for "interesting...

Even on the Orphan Train, everything is not an orphan. The 5.5" fence rail blocks are a leader/ender project. It's boring. I have 5...

In thinking about the "why" of working with orphans, the simplest reasons are usually just that "simple". And depending ...

This is a top I patched together, thinking to "save" the leftovers. It was years before I built my "Orphan Train, heading Wes...

Those old iron tracks that rumbled and rattled with the weight of passing iron horses are silent in many areas across America. Perhaps in E...

And a happy 1st of February to all who track the Orphan Train. I've been ONE BAD conductor and engineer this past year. Time for wake ...

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 Here we are back at the semi-completed quilt top I showed you a couple of days ago. That was the last time it looked like this. A bit of ...

 and moving ahead, slowly at first, but moving. This is the next orphan donation I'm going to help find a new life. I apologize to its...

 and come wandering down the road, lookin' for a home. A year or so back, Julie, of Julie K Quilts , included these 12 little medical ...

is a new blog about the quilts we make and donate. It's so nice to have a place to read about what other donation quilters are doing...

 Yes, it does look like a mess, doesn't it??? This is a new donation, and it seems to be all(or nearly all) 2" strips. They were ...

from our own Del Jeanne. She has created this lovely quilt for a dear friend. I'll let her tell you about it. "It's been awhile...

Thursday, August 23, 2007 Messages from the past....remember me... As I read the comments about my last post,far off in the distance, I cou...

 takes a full head of steam from the old Orphan Train. Mostly it's a 'slow-go'...but progress is being made. This "begun...