Hands2Help Finishes

     For this year's H2H challenge I enlisted some help from friends in my church quilt group. We have several finishes with a few to be  finished after the deadline. I am happy to share our finishes.

We have 3 finished twin size tops for MCC. Their mission to send comfort to areas of conflict and disaster touched our hearts.

Here is one more finish that will go to a local charity so that is a total of 4 for H2H this year. 

A big "Thank You" to Sarah for hosting this year's challenge and to all the participating sponsors and quilters. Together we can make a difference.

H2H Check In

    Wednesday was sew day for my church quilt group and we worked on several quilt tops for Hands2Help Challenge this year. My favorite is this adaptation of Fabric Cafe's pattern “Attraction”. This was a fast easy twin size top perfect for H2H charity challenge. It will go to the Mennonite Central Committee project for areas dealing with conflict or disaster such as Turkey and Ukraine.  

I love the colors in the stripe fabric so wanted to use it for this quilt top. I plan to use the pattern again, but next time I will not use a one way design. I am happy with the final top; however, it was a pain to match the stripe.

Have a great week with some time for quilting.

“When Life gives you scraps, make quilts. “

Goals and Progress

      I skipped last Monday's update on my weekly goals and progress, mostly because it was travel day to return home from visiting family and granddaughters. I enjoyed a wonderful week visiting with them. I'm late posting today because this morning I hosted 8 ladies for my Women of the Church circle meeting. I served Strawberry Bread with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. You can find the recipe here.

How I did on my goals last week:

1. Continue progress on my guild Rainbow Challenge quilt top. Done. I shared progress on a Friday post and have since added the borders to complete the top. I also pieced a backing. I hope to get it sandwiched this week and start the quilting.

2. Plan for participating in the Hands 2 Help challenge 2023 Done.

I washed a chosen fabric group and started cutting an easy kit.

You can find out more about H2H at Confessions of a Fabric Addict's blog.

     I also worked on a few small quick gifts. I made a mug rug from scraps, finished 2 floral placemats ( the tops were pieced during covid shut down) 

and appliqued a cute gnome on to a kitchen hand towel. 

 The gnome is a free pattern from Jelly Roll Club. There is a gnome block for each month plus other blocks so you can make a whole quilt. 

Stash Report for 2023

this past week- Used: 6.41 yds Added: 1 yds
So far this year- Used: 40.46 yds Added: 22 yds
Net decrease 18.46 yds

Goals for this week:

1. Sandwich and start quilting the “Rainbow Crystals” top.

2. Create step-outs to demo trapunto method.

3. Start piecing “Celtic Fantasy”

Have a great week with some time for quilting.

“When Life gives you scraps, make quilts. “