Service Quilts

 Yesterday was Service Quilt collection day for quilt guild.  We support three hospice organizations throughout the Shenandoah Valley.  I turned in 27 quilts.   Some were new finishes or UFO finishes for this year, and some were ones from the stack in the closet.

We collected a total of 264 quilts.  Our next collection meeting will be in November.    I'll link this with Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict at her next Hands2Help link-up.

Hands2Help

Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict runs a project every year to support comfort quilt projects.  With Hands2Help, she picks several projects across the US and Canada to showcase, and encourages quilt donations to spread the love a quilt can represent.  This year, there are five projects featured.

I have already pieced a top for a quilt to donate to the Carolina Hurricane Project.  This needs to be one of the next quilts loaded on the longarm for quilting so I can get it sent off to Wilmington to be a quilty hug.

Stash Report - 19 March 2017

This week I finished three panel quilts to donate through the quilt guild.  We've been asked for small (~36 x 45) quilts for families to use for playing with their babies on the floor.  I found fairy panels on the clearance rack at one of the local quilt shops.  They've been sitting on the cutting table for a month or so.  Tuesday we had snow with ice underneath, so I took the day as vacation and got all three quilted.  Saturday, I trimmed them, and found a piece of backing cut-off in the stash that worked for binding.  All three are now ready to turn in at the next guild meeting.

Today, I pulled a couple of pieces out of the bag of greens from my mother and pieced them together as a backing for one of the tumbler tops.  That's pressed and waiting to be loaded on the longarm.

Stash report

Out this week          8.3 yds

In this week             0    yds

Out for 2017          16.3 yds

In for 2017              4.5 yds

Net for 2017          11.8 yds out

Linking with Judy at PatchworkTimes