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Saturday, February 22, 2020

Quilts of Valor sewing day


A good sized crew met yesterday at The Pin Cushion classroom for a VERY productive sewing day for Quilts of Valor.  Four of us sewed pretty much steadily from 10 am to 3 pm - with a break for lunch of pizza provided by The Pin Cushion.  Thank you Brenda!!

Another 4 ladies cut more block parts, pressed as the sewers needed, hand stitched a label, marked diagonal sewing lines and more.  And we had a lot of fun.  Thank you to Deb, Pam, Alice, Louise, Karen, ruby, and Janice.  Many hands made light work. 

And what did those many hands accomplish, in between the conversation? 
  • put together 1 complete quilt top (above) from 30 Patriotic Star blocks
  • labeled one completed quilt
  • bound another complete quilt (Louise took it home to do the hand stitching and the label)
  • prepped another long length of binding for a future quilt
  • cut the parts for LOTS more blocks after using up my few kits
  • made 16 more Bento Box blocks
  • made 12 or 14 more Patriotic Star blocks
So we are very close to having enough blocks for 2 more quilt tops.  


3 comments:

Tired Teacher 2 said...

Excellent! Congratulations on a successful sewing day for Quilts of Valor.

Jenny said...

A great days sewing all round, congratulation to all involved in this worthy cause.

Far Side of Fifty said...

Way to go ladies! The quilt top looks wonderful!