2026 Charity quilt TOPS #151-160 ready to go

Things are getting done, finally. I’ve been working hard and sometimes it feels like it doesn’t make any difference at all.

BUT, I’m starting to feel like it is helping. For example, maybe I’m getting some of the outstanding things cleaned up and taken care of. I’m not sure why I’ve had so many things to do before I could do the things I’ve wanted to do, but it has been.

(That ridiculously obscure statement means…”Why haven’t I been able to get to the fun things this year like piecing?”)

But I’ve been spending hours daily on things like getting these charity tops done. I think the real reason it is this way is because I ignored charity tops for several years starting back in 2021, I think, even. I had had a lot of extras worked up, for which I am grateful, but it finally caught up with me and all the time I was ignoring everything, other people were still helping me by making tops or smallish tops. So, it added up. I hope that soon I will be at a breathing point.

 
 

THEN you will see me explode with some more piecing, and I really just can’t wait. It’s as if I have this pent up desire to make something (new) beautiful out of fabric, but just can’t do it yet…but I see the end in sight where I can begin to think about it, write down plans and hopes and begin making lists again.

I’ve still not wandered into my daughter’s old room and dug around in a drawer there where I believe I have more tops.

But I’ll get there.

I’m just not ready to add to my current explosion of sorting, going through things and divvying up, along with making more charity tops AND quilts.

Plus, I do have maybe 8 more of my own quilts to bind and just get finished. It’s all going on at the same time.

Anyway, Natasha at church says she understood what I needed when I gave her the borders for finishing up some of the smaller ones that Fran has sent me. I had worked up a diagram and then labeled the fabrics I gave her (numbered them, actually). I gave her what functioned as a kit with the top center, borders and diagram with the fabrics labeled/numbered as to which goes where.

I was telling my husband that if she would sew up 2 a week, that in 52 weeks, that’s over 100 tops! That’s significant! I have boxes of Fran’s tops, so I won’t worry about running out right away.

This cabinet at the church in my storage room will hold a double row of tops, so that is room for at least 60 more here, I believe. I can see with this photo that I need to take my broom and get it cleaned up around the base of the door. I just removed the shelving since it is uber lightweight and won’t hold the weight of the fabric tops.


So thanks for coming along with me on this journey.

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!


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