Trip Around the World

       Yesterday after church I decided to sew some on another comfort / charity quilt top that I started about a month ago.  I’m using 3 ½” strips of 8 fabrics to make a simple “Trip Around the World” quilt.  All except the gold were donated fabrics.  I sewed 4 strip sets and pieced 4 sections Bargello style then filled in with the joining strips.  I did add an extra strip across the top and bottom to make it more rectangular.  Without a border it will finish at 45” by 57”. 

Finished Comfort Quilt

    I am working on quilting and finishing my stack of comfort / charity quilts before I work on a project of my own.  Today I finished adding the binding on a manly one for my church group.  I used the walking foot to do some straight line quilting and then decided to add some free-motion wavy lines in between and in the middle of the bars. I like the combination. I did not take a close up photo of the quilting.

    Now is also the time to register quilts and other craft entries for the state fair and that got done.  I don’t have several to enter like I have had some years.  I also took time to get a couple of quilts ready to enter into my sister’s guild (Ashe County Piecemakers)  http://www.ashequilters.org/  show in September.  I still need to sew a label and hanging sleeve on one.

Comfort Quilt Quilting

I have at least 4 comfort / charity tops waiting to be quilted.  The past couple of days I quilted a child's comfort quilt for my guild.

 It started as a cheater panel.  I cut out the blocks, added sashing and cornerstones and a border.  I used a walking foot to stitch-in-the-ditch for the sashing and around the border.  I did free-motion quilting in the blocks thinking about the picture in each block.  For the center block which is crazy pieced I did a heart and echoed it several times. .