Just in Time!

My goal for this week:  the next border for this one DONE!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!!

Cheers!  CW

Special Community Quilt

 I forgot that I had signed up to quilt this quilt for a special exhibit at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.  Consequently not much UFO sewing last week! But quilting this quilt was a great experience.  The exhibit is called "We're Still Here" or " Segui'mos Aqui".  It is an exhibit to help focus the struggles of Seniors in our community through Art and Stories,  and suggestions on how we can help.

Our guild set up a table with fabric squares, glue sticks, markers and relevant fabric prints that people could use to design their own squares expressing some aspects of what community means to them.  Then our guild members helped sew everything down.  There will be 5 quilts total produced.  Various Long-armers in the community volunteered to quilt these quilts during the exhibition. This one that I quilted is #4.

Here's the label.  I think all of these quilts will be put into the permanent collection of the Museum.

I confess I had not been to the museum in several years but I went twice to see this exhibit and it was very inspiring.  Community work can be sad and challenging especially for groups like Seniors where there resources can be so limited.   But the museum staff did a great job of shedding light on the problems of Seniors without being maudlin.

I think visitors must have had a really good time with the block project because there were well over 500 squares made  (my guesstimate).

Here are some of the squares up close.

I did not always get the connections of image with words but I just tried to highlight and outline things.

Like I said,  not much UFO sewing last week but this project was a lot of fun.

This week my grand kids are here for a visit so I probably won't get much sewing done either but I'm having a great time with my grand kids!  

cheers,  CW

One Finished Finish and some Tops finished

I've kind of been balancing larger projects with smaller ones so this week I finished quilting and binding this baby quilt.  The genesis of this project was finding those cute flannel squares in the guild flea market.  Easy peasy, it will make a nice donation quilt.

I used this wonderful snoopy flannel for the backing.  It's really soft.  Perfect for a baby!

I also finished a few tops!  Some how putting on borders is a challenge for me so I have a lot of projects that are waiting for borders.  Hopefully I can get them quilted pretty quick now that they are finished!

I added the blue strips to the top and bottom and the yellow flower print (an old skirt) all the way around.  I thought it matched the vintage blocks pretty well.

 This quilt had a lot of structural problems starting with the piecing.   I wondered if it was even worth salvaging these orphan blocks they were so wonky and rather loosely hand pieced.  But I decided to put them together hoping that the quilting will help stabilize everything.  We shall see!

You might remember this next top from a post in Sept.  These were a whole set of orphan blocks given to me as part of a "Thank You" gift from my guild.  I was stunned that someone would part with a whole set of these beautiful blocks!  But I talked to the person who gave them to me and she said that she got them in a block swap and when she finely received her blocks they just didn't 'wow' her the way she had initially thought they would.  I think they are gorgeous!  And I'm really happy with the border.  I found both those fabrics in my stash!!

This last border finish is a pretty old UFO.  I think I started it 3 or 4 years ago.  Every year about this time I'd get it out and work on the blocks but this year I was determined to get it done before Halloween so we could enjoy it's seasonal design!  This one will get moved to the front of the line for quilting so hopefully it will be done soon!!!

Sooo many fun fabrics in this one.  My stash of Halloween fabric grew quite a bit while working on this project.  But I have another Halloween project that will hopefully put a dent in that.

Well that's all for now.  I hope to get some more "Finished Finishes" done by next week.  I have stayed true to my goal to not Start anything new!  It was hard.  I did fiddle around with a few stacks of fabric,  I didn't cut anything so that doesn't count, right?!

I hope you are all enjoying the Fall!  It's been really nice weather here!

cheers, CW