March 2025: Making Kits for Donation Quilts

 With a well-attended meeting, we made lots of kits for ourselves to make donation quilts.  Thanks to everyone who brought fabric from their stashes.

First, Show & Tell

Sandra P made this quilt at the request of her husband.  The Tumbling Blocks (aka Baby Blocks) were hand-pieced.  Originally the quilt was supposed to fit a Full size bed, but it took long enough that it needed to fit a Queen, hence the big borders, and the calicos made a second appearance in the corners of the middle border.

Jean S got a new pattern from Sew Kind of Wonderful, and a ruler for it.

Patti either got this at our UFO swap, or from the Auffle, and finished it.

Leslie put last year's BOM blocks together, duplicating each, with pinwheel cornerstones.

This is Ruth's first modern quilt and a finished UFO!

Ruth made this zipper bag as part of last year's demo, and she wanted to show us how perfect it is for minding the quilt clips that are so popular.

Lydia won a collection of silk-screened crows at a retreat and put them together as a wall-hanging/banner.

Lydia also made this very easy Villa Rosa pattern as a gift.

Leslie was the only person who brought finished blocks from last month's meeting to show.  Look for her animal-theme fabric in all of them.

2 of her own Cat block

2 of Ruth's Tulip Lady Fingers

2 of Terry's Storm at Sea

Next Month 

For Leslie's magic binding, bring your sewing machine, a quilted project to bind and prepare the binding as follows.

1.  Choose two fabrics for your binding.

2.  Measure around your project.

3.  Add 10 inches to the total.

4.  Cut a strip from one of your binding fabrics, 1 1/4 inch wide.  "Color 1"

5.  If you need to sew your strips together, end-to-end, use a bias seam.

6.  Cut a strip from your other binding fabric that is 1 1/2 inch wide.  This is the flange. "Color 2"

7.  Again, use a bias seam if you need to sew strips together to make up the needed length.

8.  Sew the color 1 strip to the color 2 strip, right sides together, along the long edge. Press seam toward the narrower strip.

 

9.  Fold the strip in half, wrong sides together, aligning the long edges.

For Terry's slipper demo, bring your sewing machine.