All Day Quilting

About once a year our quilt group collaborates on making a quilt top in a day. One of the women had Veteran’s Day off so that is the day that was chosen. This year we had two quilt patterns and eight women who divided into two teams. We start with piles of fabric scraps from everyone’s past projects and go from there. We quilted from eight AM to four PM but each group only got a quilt top about half assembled, therefore we will have another day of quilting next week. 

One group is doing a tumbling block pattern made with fabric strips and using a template to cut each shape before sewing it all together. The other group is doing a more standard star pattern made from quilt blocks that will be assembled with additional lattice pieces surrounding them. See pictures below. We always have a grand time, with lots of great fellowship and conversation along the way. We also had a wonderful soup, and salad lunch with homemade sourdough bread and yummy desserts. Quilting is a lot of fun really. When the two quilt tops are done we will have a drawing to see which lucky two from the group will win them. I am in the running since I haven’t yet won one from years past. Everyone will eventually have a keepsake quilt made by members of the group.

You can see from the photos some of the chaos with piles of  fabric scraps on the cutting and ironing boards.  Some of the women cut the pieces with the rotary cutters while others start the sewing. If things are not working out (for instance the first assembled block our group made did not form the expected star) we start "un-sewing" or ripping out the seams and if all else fails we read the directions. Ha. 

Lou