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A few charitable finishes

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Well,  it's taken quite awhile to get my daily rhythm back since vacation but I have been sewing!  I was feeling rather guilty that I had fallen behind in my charitable sewing so I pulled out the box with all the "in progress" things and selected a few tops that just needed borders.  This first one I found all the plaid patches pre-cut in the guild flea market.  That was a no brainer!  And it will make a nice lap quilt for the Vet's project.   This second one was started with these end pieces from a Jelly roll, also a flea market find. .  It was fun sorting them out light from dark and then trying to match them up so's to make a certain length with all the strips. My stash of shades of gray is growing. (no wink to the Movie) But I can remember a time, maybe 15 years ago when I was in a swap where we all decided to use gray fabs for the back ground of the blocks and most of us did not have a single gray fab in our stashes!  How the pen...