Finishing Touches

Last Saturday we met at Sylvia's to quilt our breast cancer raffle quilt on her Qbot. It is so exciting to put those finishing touches on to a project. And this one was especially heart warming. Dillon, who is Sylvia's grandson, and also a student in Mrs M's class this year - stopped by to check it all out. He picked out the backing for the quilt.

Once we finished quilting it, Yvonne put on the binding. I'm working on a quilt label to add to the back. We want to make sure whoever wins this remembers that it was made for a very important cause. And of course we hope that lots of money is raised for Mrs. M's foundation. We hope to display the quilt next week at an education conference being held locally where nearly 200 educators will gather.

More on the "Rolling On" quilt . . .

The top is done and we love how it turned out. 80 of the pinwheel blocks went together - 16 made by each of the 5 of us. Then a narrow white border and a somewhat wider bright pink border. Pam brought the quilt to school yesterday and showed it to Mrs. M, whose breast cancer foundation it is being donated to for a raffle. One of her students, Dillon, also was the one to select the backing fabric since his grandma (Sylvia) is one of the 5. He did a great job in picking out a fun pink/white print that feels almost like flannel.

Here we are - working on the quilt. . .

Rolling On Against Breast Cancer

Here it is - our raffle quilt for breast cancer awareness. This is a group project and we put together the top last night at Marilyn's. We'll quilt it on Saturday at Sylvia's. More about this project later and more pictures!

Pink Ribbon projects

I'm sharing a couple of group projects here that will hopefully bring about some awareness of breast cancer.

The pink and black pinwheel blocks will be part of a quilt that is being put together to raffle off for breast cancer. There are 6 of us making blocks - 16 blocks apiece. Each of us is doing 2 sets of 4 pink blocks and 2 sets of 4 black blocks and we'll put them all together with a fun pink border. The finished quilt will go be raffled to raise money for a new foundation being set up by a local teacher who is a breast cancer survivor.

The second group project involves 12 ladies. Once a month there is a small group of us who meet for coffee following Saturday Sampler (a block of the month at our local quilt shop). During coffee, Sylvia suggested a challenge quilt project. We decided on a Christmas quilt, came up with a list of possible participants, and went shopping together for the challenge fabric.

We each got 1 yard of the green holly Christmas fabric and will make 13 identical 12 inch blocks. We plan to get together this summer and exchange our blocks so that we will each end up with 1 block from each lady for our own quilt. My block is called "arm flags" from a past Saturday Sampler called Ode to Aging. The 13th set of blocks will be put together by the group and quilted. Then we hope to raffle it off for breast cancer sometime during the late fall.