Well, today I actually worked on something scrappy! One of our quilt ministry members ended up moving to another state as a result of a COVID-related job loss in her family, and we decided to make a collaboration quilt for her. I finally picked up all the completed blocks this week and started laying it out on the wall today...
It's certainly going to be an eclectic quilt! I had to add some strips to some of the blocks to bring them up to size and trim down some others. All the outer blocks are 12.5" square. I thought the center heart block was 36.5" square, but imagine my surprise when I sewed the side blocks together and they were longer! Oops..... But easy enough to fix. I'll trim it down a bit and add a stop border to bring it to the right size. Hopefully this one will be assembled before the end of the week so I can take it to one of the other members for quilting. She has a new long arm machine she needs to break in!
And how about a little inspiration? Not as much as usual today because it's been a busy week, but I did find two really beautiful pairs of quilts....
I particularly love the front quilt - all that movement!!!
And the only thing better than one postage stamp quilt?
Night and day twins!!
Have a great, scrappy week!
Hugs!
Sarah
A farewell quilt, the centre heart is truly lovely, this is so full of love from every one who designed and sewed a block, the finish will be with someone else's loving hands.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to put disparate blocks together, but you've done a great job! What a nice gift!
ReplyDeleteLovely quilt to send to your friend who had to move.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite surprised how much I like the front quilt on the Lynncarsonharris photo! Nice collaboration quilt, too!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely start out to be a scrappy week here, Sarah. The BEST kind of week and I got my 1st COVID vaccine today!!
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