Meet Christie and her “stash trash”

Earlier this week I sent out my monthly newsletter (you can subscribe at the end of this post). In it, I talked about some of my goals for 2024 and asked my readers what they were planning.

Christie Frey immediately wrote back and I wanted to share her thoughts…..

I have set a goal to make one hospice quilt a month. I have been given fabric and orphaned blocks from others in my guild so I only have to pay for batting to do this work. So far in January I completed three quilt tops so now I am working to machine quilt them to complete my first quarter goal.

Here are two very different looking quilts made from a stack of pre-cut orange peels. I am enjoying improving my FMQ skills on my domestic machine as I finish these projects 

I find great delight in making treasures from others “stash trash”. So thankful these can become a bright spot of comfort as people transition to their final home. 

First of all, how special to be making quilts for hospice. I know that these quilts mean so much to the recipient and also to their families.

Secondly, what a great term…..”STASH TRASH”! I think that I may adopt that one myself!

Here are the two “Orange Peel” quilts…..

They are so bright and happy!!

Here is some of the quilting that she is doing on those quilts…..

I LOVE how she is using the straight lines in the curved “peels”. It makes a wonderful pattern.

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Christie’s 3rd quilt is using remade blocks and pastel strips.

It was challenging because I lean more to brights. I sorted the strips by color and made strata squares with those. I also found tucked in the “freebie” box pre-cut HST and squares of purple and lime. So that is what I used to brighten up the piece. It will be fun to FMQ designs in the open spaces of the blocks.

She is so right about the lime green and purple. They raise the quilt from boring to exciting!!

Christie has been sewing since she was 8. Her passion for quilting started when she first went to Houston IQF in 1985 with her mom who was a fabric store owner in Lake Tahoe CA. Now that she is retired, she is loving having time to spend “making”, especially working with scraps. As she said….

“Stash Trash gets my juices going.”

I first met Christie when she was the program chairman for the Metropolitan Quilt Guild in Beaverton, Oregon, and it has been fun to get to know her more through our mutual love of quilting.

Thank you Christie for sharing your 2024 goals and wonderful work!!

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