Next Ten Charity Tops Ready to go! (nr 41-50)

I did get the next ten tops ready to go to the church to be stored. I’m working very, very hard on these right now and trying to get them done before I start stacking finished quilts on top of the containers/trunks that will hold these tops!

 
 

Yes, I’m using trunks - and usually I store the finished quilts on top of them until it is time to have the give-away - which often is in October or November. I really like having it once the weather turns cool as turnout is so much better when people are reminded that it is going to get cold before you know it!

Anyway, this time I decided to caption each quilt top and share what I actually did to these. Some I received as smaller tops and I added borders - but others I did more than that.

I then went through my long arm room in the house and finally dealt with a few tops that I had down there from a long time ago. Well, I didn’t have them “in” the long arm room all that time, but I’ve had the tops for a long time - maybe 10 years. I decided to move several of them to the charity tops part of my life as I have no desire to finish them as my own - as they are just really plain - for example, black and white single Irish Chain. I thought they were great when I first made them - and they are nice, don’t get me wrong, but I have plenty of far more interesting quilts now and don’t see myself choosing to personally keep such a top as my own quilt. So, I put it in with the larger charity tops at church (I have two sizes - a single and double).

I also did find a couple other tops that I didn’t have to do anything to, and put them nicely folded in the “ready to quilt” bins.

I took some paper and wrote “ready to quilt” and taped it to the bins so I don’t have to keep opening bins to double check.

Natasha added borders to these - I gave her the fabrics and asked her to put it on for me.

Plus, the lady I told you about last week, Natasha, who received a quilt last November, but knows how to sew and has started coming to church, brought back her first two tops I asked her to add borders to! I gave her two more. :)

I also put those with the “ready to quilt” tops. I will try to keep track of how many tops she finishes up for me/us but in the end, I just want them all “ready to quilt” and the numbers aren’t really all that important. It is really more or less for information purposes only. I won’t be surprised if I end up with over 200+ tops before I get that room to where I want/need it to be.

Anyway, I’ve been trying to put the pedal to the metal and get that room upstairs at church in better shape, just a little bit at a time - and working hard here in the cold months. Why? Because it gets warm upstairs at the church in the summer and is unpleasant to be in that room - AND because there is a lot of pressing and ironing involved in all this top making - especially these with strips - that I’m just trying to power sew through and get the vast majority finished as quickly as possible - or at least til I can see the light at the end.

Remember these? These are little strips - and yes, while digging around in that room the other day I found yet another bag or two of those little strips.

I keep bringing some home to make into the tops that you are seeing so many of - as the bags are just “in the way” of progess of making the room neat. I also like the fact that I’m using up more of the “Big Fabric Haul” fabrics as I make them and they make such warm quilt tops that I know they will be useful and welcomed by many as they get finished into quilts.

Anyway, here are the tops that I stacked up to go to the church building, ready for quilting - in an orderly way. For the single size, I am aiming for between 57”-62” x 80”-90”. For the doubles - I am going for a minimum size of 80”x80” but prefer 80”x 84” or bigger.

 
 

Thanks so much for coming along with me on this journey! I do appreciate each of you!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

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