Time to put together a few more baby quilts for my guild. It's our service project. Every year we make well over 100 colorful quilts that we provide to two hospitals for infants in their neo-natal care units. The small quilts cover incubators so that bright hospital lights don't hurt the tiny babies' eyes.
It starts when I open the cupboard to check my stash. It's fun to create these quilts because they can be very "scrappy" and random....no specific patterns needed.
After digging through the piles I have an assortment that will be fun to use. And many of these are fabrics that are left-overs from other quilts, or patterns that I probably won't be using in a larger project. So making the baby quilts helps me clean house.
Next step is to cut the fabric into strips and then sew the strips together to make one LONG piece. Then put the two ends together, fold the long strip in half and sew along the seam. You now still have a LONG piece.....but half as long as before. Repeat the process over and over and over.....
Music playing in the background, colorful fabric moving beneath my fingers, sewing machine humming along.....this is almost a meditative kind of sewing....doesn't require much thought but it's fun and productive. And besides, if it's coloful INSIDE who cares if it's grey OUTSIDE!
The final little quilt top is paired with a piece of backing fabric and folded up. It will go to my next guild meeting and someone will offer to take it home, add batting and machine quilt it to create the finished project. It is a nice co-operative effort.
In the past few weeks I've put together six sets. My stash cupboard is getting sort of "bare"....well, not really. But still. There's a big quilt show nearby tomorrow with 60 vendors planning to attend. :-) My stash just might grow......again.
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