![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My sister-in-law, Carolyn, aka One-Block-Wonder-Woman and I both have purchased the Jodi Barrows “Square in a Square” ruler and book. That’s it for me for March! What’s going on in your sewing room? So far we are “on time’ for these quilts and I imagine they will be presented in May to the graduates during a service. It is nice to have willing workers and it takes the stress off when I have to keep things organized. I was so thankful to the two ladies who worked together on the red & white quilt, and the willingness of two others offering their help binding the quilts. This year was a challenge to get together for a group sewing project because of COVID-19, and the work responsibilities and health issues of some of our regular quilters at church. As with the other quilt, there is a church member who has offered to do the binding on this quilt. I will probably do a little stitch in the ditch around the narrow yellow border just to secure things. After the Easter break my quilting group will get together again and we will tie this quilt as well. I will put the turquoise to work on the back of something else in the future. There is a bit of turquoise in the quilt, but i wasn’t happy with it for this project, so I reordered. I made an error when I selected the color for the backing and the original order was too turquoise. The backing fabric is on the way from Marshall Dry goods, a lovely royal blue in 108″ width. I’m still working on the embroidery for the back of the quilt, the label and an additional 2 verses. This quilt has the church photo in one corner and just one verse in the upper right. The color is more true on the design wall photo. The lighting wasn’t great when I took this photo outside, and the yellows do fade away. Since that isn’t possible this year we put more verses than usual on, along with the special label. Ordinary times the members of the church would leave messages of love and faith and sign the quilt. I added a verse for the back and a special label. I decided it needed some quilting in the borders to finish it off. Then we got together again and tied the quilt with white crochet thread. I brought it home and joined up three sections and added the borders and photo’s and verses. With three sewing machines going, we got the rows together quickly. We got back together and cut the units apart, pressed and squared them up, and laid out the design. We got together and cut out the fabric and then one member of the group stitched all the half square triangles. The grandma of the graduate is a quilter and provided the fabric and some of the sweat equity in the construction of the quilt. Working with fabric donated for the purpose, my partners in quilting came up with an idea for this quilt together. When there are so few, it is easy to have a little more fun and make the quilts very unique. Last year we had just one graduate and this year there are only 2 graduates. Our biggest year had about 13 or 14 quilts. Some years we have had half a dozen or more. Every year since 2008 I have worked on quilts for the high school graduates of my church. ![]()
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