The current status
On Saturday morning I went to our church building and worked on cleaning up a room that needed it. I had temporarily stored some charity quilts in that room, along with a lot of other things.
I had had to move these tops out of my house - simply because I need the space and I have a very good place to keep them in my “storage room” for our organization. So why not? It relieves me of stress. When I want to work on them, I’ll just bring them back home.
I moved a lot of the charity quilt tops that are ready to quilt to the room in the church building where I store the quilts. I have tops in plastic bins and in the wardrobe.
I piled up some of them nicely here so you can look to the right and see the borders I’ve added. It’s the usually colorful outer border and then often a solid 2.5” cut border.
Then, I have a lot of doubles that I had from my friend Fran, who is in AZ. I had been collecting them - but I had wanted to add a double border to them to make them a nice queen size. Actually they were about 70”x82” before I added a 2.5” and then a 6.5” border to them. Here are these - it’s been keeping me busy doing that in addition to the quilting I’ve been doing. But now these are ALL READY to go. And that feels really good!
Here are SOME of the ones I added borders to. Each one actually look longer than I thought it would. I’ve been listening to/sort of watching a lot of baseball - which has helped me get through this incredibly boring sewing! :) (The Tampa Bay Rays are going to the World Series!)
I had had the finished and leftover quilts from our March give away downstairs on a table I needed for a Sunday School class, so my husband and I moved them back up to this storage room where I will add more as I finish them this fall. This is how the room looks before I start adding the 120+ I’ll be finishing soon.
Current status of quilts - October 18, 2020
Just for comparison, last year when I finished my quilting frenzy, this is how the room looked -
This photo was taken Dec 4, 2019 and is after I finished all of the charity quilts for the year 2019. Don’t they look amazing? The bins that the quilts are sitting on in this picture are either empty or have random stuff in them. I’ve since cleaned them out and am using those bins for tops. I don’t want to put the quilts directly the on the floor, as you can imagine - so using the bins to rest them on seems like a good solution to that issue.
The tops in the bins are mostly the single size, but I am not going to “bet” on that as some are made by my elves locally (Ewa and her mom) and I didn’t measure them - I will deal with them when I bring them home to work on.
These are mostly singles. I have a total of 80 small/single size tops in these bins - so I can just pull them out and work on them. It feels good to have them ready to go.
There are 69 big tops in this wardrobe.
On the left is the wardrobe where I have all these larger quilts I’ve added borders to. There are A LOT here!
These are very easy to quilt - as I can just straight line quilt these queen size ones across the squares - they always look nice and it’s not stressful (sometimes FMQ is stressful to me!).
Since I have so many which are slated for finishing up next year, I have already decided that I will attempt to make myself finish 1 of these large ones a week for the year (average). This is a do-able goal and I want to finish them. I have finished adding borders to all of them - just finished that a couple of days ago - then I folded them. I love them with the borders on them - and think the people do too. I’ve added everything from solids to stars, to blenders from the Quilted Twins store - well, you get the picture. Lots of different things!
Every year when I do this kind of thing and bring quilts to the room to store until I’m ready to give them away, I tend to forget the exact numbers. I decided to actually take a pad of paper and keep better track this year. That word “szafa” is the closet where the bigger tops are. It’s actual definition is “wardrobe”.
I know…you are probably sick of the charity quilt story - but it’s what I’m engulfed in at the moment. This week I’ll need to go and buy another 2 bolts of batting (already!). I’m going through it fast!
And there you go!
That’s it for today.
Have a great day wherever you are reading this!
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Here’s a particularly beautiful panel!
This gorgeous panel is called Butterfly Haven and is by Wilmington Prints. You can get yours here.