THE WEEK OF THIS AND THAT

This past week has been full of family events.  We enjoyed a week's  visit with our oldest daughter, a grandson's birthday and husband's and my 60th wedding anniversary.  My daughter and I did get into my sewing room and I was able to send her off home with a great load of scrap fabrics, some patterns and quilt books I was no longer using or interested in.  

My quilt guild has a Warm Wrapping charity unit that makes about 350 quilts a year that are given to 5 different local agencies.  About 20 of us make the quilt tops with kits that are made up by us with donated fabric, others quilt them and bind them and yet another take them home and sew the finishing of the binding down.  I am in the group that makes up kits, sews quilt tops together, and does the finishing binding.  I just finished 3 quilts with hand binding them this past month.  This particular quilt I fell in love with.  Very difficult not to keep it and exchange it for a couple of finished quilts I have made and willing to give up for this one.

I just love this quilt.

I had a goal of 60 table runners for our upcoming guild's January 26 quilt show's boutique.  I wrapped that project up this past couple weeks.  Yes, 61 table runners all at 13" by 28".  

I ended up with a good deal of leftover fabrics and happened to have a stash of zippers and decided that these little zipper pouches might be a good addition to the boutique.  They measure about 10" by 10" or 10" by 11" depending on the scrap leftovers.

Simple quilting fronts and backs.  I  will fiddle with these for a few months and see what I come up with.  I find these little projects like the runners and these pouches as good relief sewing from more complicated appliqué projects I am working on for myself.

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