I'm not sure if I mentioned it last week, but I bought a super soft herringbone green fabric for the backing, and I'm going to bind it in solid orange. But the two baby quilts didn't go any farther than the tops being completed.
I pulled a few fabrics together for another baby quilt, I'm leaning towards an economy block for the boy one and possibly a snail trail block for a little girl. I might just make both tops so when I'm inevitably asked for another quilt, I already have one made.
My plan for the rest of the week was to work on basting more pieces for my EPP that I'll be taking on my trip this coming week. But then on Monday while eating a sandwich after work, I was browsing the Quilting subreddit and saw a call for quilters. A picture of a quilt had been posted a few days prior of a beautiful Iris quilt someone's grandma had made them. It had been stolen out of her car after only using it once and she was devastated. She was looking for someone to help her find the pattern and then how to make a quilt as her grandma had passed years before and she wasn't a quilter. But the call was put out for quilters to volunteer to make a block, and for someone to assemble the top and someone else to do the quilting.
I couldn't resist. I had enough fabric to make the block and I wanted to be part of something like this. So Monday night, I said I was only going to pull fabric. But then I decided there wasn't really a lot of cutting to do, so I'd just cut the fabric so I could make the block the next morning before work. Well we all know how this story goes. I cut the fabric, then decided there was not a lot of half square triangles, so I'd just make those. I did manage to stop myself at this step and proceeded to finish my block Tuesday morning.
My block had since been mailed off and received to move on to the next step of assembly. But this was such a fun block to make that I think I might make another one, though slightly larger to make a wall hanging for spring. But that is going to have to wait until after the baby quilts are done.
But what I love about being a part of the quilting community, is the response to this call is amazing. If everyone that commented follows through, there will be enough blocks for three or four quilts. It was suggested that the extra quilts be donated in her and her grandma's name to a homeless shelter as she believes based off what was stolen from her car that the person was homeless and just trying to keep warm.
Other than that detour, I've been basting away on my handwork project. Because by all accounts, basting, even thread basting, is not fun on a plane or airport. So I'm trying to get as many pieces ready to go as possible. I probably have more than enough ready for the entire trip, but I don't like flying and having something in my hands to distract me is going to help. I hope.
So there won't be any block post next Sunday as I will away and trying to disconnect as much as possible.
Happy Quilting!
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