Charity Quilt Week 1 - Day 4
I spent quite a while today working hard on this project.
In fact, Toggl said I spent 9 hours, 33 min. and 45 seconds on these things:
Ironing - 3 hours, 13 min. - but that’s wrong. I forgot to come in and change what I had done. I only ironed for about 1 and 1/2 hours
sewing the tops - 4 hours, 36 min
cutting borders - 1 hour, 7 minutes
computer work - 35 min - trying to get my orders straightened out for getting some backing for these charity quilts. I’m having issues with one of the companies.
Anyway, once again, I did the same types of things -
worked on making some of the strips for the shadow quilts - florals - I’m doing
added some borders to some of the Around the world tops my friend Fran made
added some borders to a couple of tops I’m making that are just a pillow panel in the middle with a kind of wild border effect.
and decision making.
Sometimes that takes the longest and I can’t get a picture of that.
I have to decide which color to use, and which fabrics. Right now my dining room looks like a tornado hit it! I have a lot of fabrics out and about for me to choose from as I cut.
This, incidentally, is one of the reason I have chosen to do these right now. The “bomb” effect isn’t bothering my husband since he’s not here!
I did manage to finish up 6 single size tops today. I didn’t work on the larger ones. I felt better today about what I did get done - better than yesterday, that is.
And that’s it for my charity work today. Here’s a picture of the pile of finished tops - ready to sandwich.
The current count is 29 - there are 20 of the smaller ones and 9 of the larger ones. The only thing stopping me from doing more and more right now is time/energy.
Otherwise, I have everything I need to finish more tops. I have so many ideas now…they are just swimming in my head.
I just remembered I had a drawer in my son’s room that had a lot of pillow panels in it. I reached it, barely (fabric in the way) and pulled out a handful of them.
Oh fun!
More and more!
I’m starting to be a roll now.
Here is a gallery of the tops I finished up.
If you see some tops with what you might think of as crazy border fabrics - well, sometimes I do that and it makes the top really appealing. For example, the kind of ugly top I made from scraps with brown sashing. By adding that crazy border fabric - it is super loud and chaotic - someone is bound to like it - just for that fabric!
The summary photo of today’s finished tops:
And there you are!
Be sure to check back tomorrow for the next installment.
Be sure to check out what my sis has for you in the store!
Colors may vary slightly from what is portrayed. Screens vary as well as our eyes sometimes see things differently, but we've made every attempt to have the color be accurately portrayed.
Price is by the Yard.