Dark and Light Creates the Pattern.

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.