KATIE CHRONICLES: Service

I've been so busy. The call went out to our stake for 100, 90 x 90 quilts for the Church humanitarian efforts. They were completely out. We had to have them all done in 2 weeks and our ward was assigned to get 16 done. I went to work right away, using some fabric for tops that I had in my stash for close to 7 years at the least. When I started thinking about how long I had those fabrics I was amazed at how fast the time - space continuum gets as you get older. What the heck? Really 7 years have gone by that fast? Wow.

Wait what was I saying? Oh, yea.

I was happy to put this fabric to good use. Shortly after I got these two tops done we found out that all the fabric and batting had been donated and all we needed to do was pick it up. So I used the donated fabric for the backs of these quilts and the batting too because it was already cut
90 x 90 for us! I also did one up from fabric that was donated by another fun lady in our ward. So I did 3 myself, excepting the tying part. But I had a hand in that as well, I just didn't do it alone. Each quilt had to be 90 x 90, have a 1/4 inch seam around the edge and another seam at 1 inch in. Then it had to be tied every 4 inches. I was working vigorously and Wednesday, Thursday and a few hours on Saturday were spent in the church gym working on these large, fluffy double size quilts. They were a bear to get through the sewing machine for the 1/4 inch seam and the 1 inch seam as well. Had to make sure that all the fabric laid just right and practically had to strong arm them through the machine. Good thing my machine is a heavy duty one! It went a little easier if someone helped guide the quilt as well, and it went better when I had a large church table to work on!

Here are some pictures of tops that I made from my stash fabric. Just to give you some idea how big these actually are it takes 5 yards of fabric to make the top and 5 yards for the bottom.

Noah's ark fabric.