GARDENHURST BIRDS AND QUILTING FOR CHARITY

A really good week getting some some charity projects finished and another that I have been trying to start for several months.

I completed the first of four blocks on this new project.  

I purchased this pattern several month ago.  I do not intend at this time to make the entire quilt.  I want to do only the four bird blocks, adjusting the size to 12 inches squares.  Then I will do a small border and then the scalloped border on them.  I had a nice stash of Austrailian Aboriginal fabrics and added some additional ones that I thought looked good with them.  I may eventually do the entire pattern in my William Morris fabric collection.

  

My quilt guild has a program that currently makes about 300 quilts each year for different local agencies.  There are two ladies that run the program, but over the years the the project has taken off and the work load of making kits, quilting them, and doing bindings and the finishing has become pretty overwhelming.  Quilting seems to be the main difficulty, as many long arm quilters also have quilting businesses to run and are limited to how many they are willing to quilt for us.  I can manage small quilts up to about 40 by 45 on my domestic machine.  About 30 of us meet once a month and with the kits provided make the quilt tops.  Then group provides the top completed, batting, and prepared binding for the quilters.  So I offered to do any of the small quilts.  I am not a free motion quilter, but I do have a nice supply of pretty colored quilting threads and a serpentine stitches looks nice on them.  So over the last two days I managed to get the two done and just doing the hand work on the bindings now.  I'll pick up two or three more next month.

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