Today I am quilting the charity quilt a group of us made last weekend. It all started because I had some left over half square triangles from another project.
How long should we string these strips together.
M who is reasonably tall volunteered to become the human tape measure .
OK... thanks...... That long.
2 of us sewed, others cut out, measured and marked,neatened and pinned.
By the end of the weekend we had 24 rows in 2 halves. Dee took one half home I took the other. We made a few adjustments.( There is quite a lot of seam matching required as these are tiny blocks. )They are very simply made by pinning together a light 3" square with a darker 3" square, marking the diagonal then sewing a quarter inch either side, then cutting along the diagonal mark. I made a further row of triangles and added those.
On Wednesday Dee came to my house and we joined the middle, selected a backing, cut the batting and laid it out on my big bench.
We pin basted it ready for quilting.
Here it is on the lounge floor. it is a generous single bed size.
Weather wise it is another appalling day; windy and raining, so a good sewing day.
Our P and Q group is trying to build up a ready supply of Charity quilts to keep in our cupboard ready to give out at a moment notice, so I don't know yet who will receive this quilt.
Right back to the quilting task.
5 comments:
What a beautiful quilt.
What a lovely colourful quilt.
Weather wise, it's beautiful here in Timaru.
I'm sat in the sun watching a bumblebee!
Lovely quilt and a great idea for you all to get together to make it. Happy quilting :-)
From little pieces such beauty. Well done!
That's lovely! I'm encouraged to hear that you needed to do some adjusting...
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