Whew!
I made it to the end of the rail fence block drive! I still have about 30 blocks that I will use at a later date with some leftover fabrics that coordinate beautifully.
A huge thanks to everyone who helped make these quilts!
Whew!
I made it to the end of the rail fence block drive! I still have about 30 blocks that I will use at a later date with some leftover fabrics that coordinate beautifully.
A huge thanks to everyone who helped make these quilts!
Getting so close to the end of the Rail Fence quilts.
These two quilts are the ones I enjoyed the most! Gail was gracious enough to make all the blocks AND sew them into tops. Then she put together kits with the backings and the prepared bindings. All I had to do was load them on my machine and go!
I actually feel like I made some progress on the scrap front this week.
I still haven't gotten out my green bin to complete my RSC blocks for March. I think I will try and do that this week. I know I have a LOT of green scraps!
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Today I am sharing a quilt that I worked on start to finish - no help from anyone!
This quilt all started with an overflowing low volume scrap bin. It was full of rather loud low volume prints. So I decided to come up with a quilt plan that would use a lot of them up.
So I made a bunch of 9 patches out of 3.5" squares.
Then I made a big 18" heart block from some red scraps and floated it in all those nine patches.
I found a red and white backing fabric that I picked up at Connecting Threads and I bound it with a red and white rickrack print.
As promised, I have added up the rail fence blocks, counted the quilts and identified all the different layouts made in the first Compassion Quilt Block Drive.
Thanks so much to all of you that donated. Your generosity far exceeded my expectations.
My dream was to get enough blocks to make 6-8 quilts - so that was what I prepared for. Ooops!
I am much more prepared for the second block drive!
I am already starting to receive packages in the mail....Thanks so much!
Another way you can help out, if you make a purchase at any of these companies, use my affiliate links on my blog. The money I make in commissions goes right back into buying backings and batting for the Compassion Quilts. Thanks so much!
This week just really flew by!
Most of the things I worked on, you will have to wait a few days to see.
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Click here to enterOne of the first things I did when I decided to make Compassion Quilts for my local hospital, is make up some kits out of my stash so other local quilters can grab if they want to help me out.
One kit I made a lot of (because it is made with cuts easily found in a stash) is my Wiggle Time pattern. Well, they have been in high demand and today I have a bunch of completed Wiggle Time quilts to share.
I was given some coffee themed fat quarters, so I pulled a nice pumpkin colored background to go with them.
I was given this book themed fabric to use on my donation quilts and I thought this coffee themed quilt was perfect - Coffee and reading goes perfectly together!
A big thanks to a friend of mine for sewing this one up!
I was given the light green, lavender and light blue fabric - I received two fat quarters of each. I found a Brandon Mabley print in my stash that looked amazing with them.
When you assemble the front, you end up with a few strip sets. I used them for an inset on the back of the second one. I didn't have any one fabric big enough, so I used a light blue on the top and a purple on the bottom. The purple really shows off the quilting.
One of my clients called me to set up an appointment to bring by a king-sized quilt. She asked me if I could use some of the leftover strip sets from her quilt. She was going to toss them otherwise.
Of course I said "Yes Please!"
Where did this week go?
I had great plans for the week but I found myself just trying to get prepared for the next Compassion Quilt block drive. I spent some time organizing my sewing room, pulling out possible backings from my stash and cleaning up surfaces. I did finish one of the last tops from the December block drive so that is ready to get quilted.
Right now, I believe I have 6 or 7 Compassion quilt tops just waiting to get quilted.
I had better get busy!
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