Wyoming Breezes

cutting kits and calculating borders February 2020 Friday and Saturday, I joined a group of local quilters to make quilts for the Laramie Hospice Home. Both days, my "job" was to sew borders on some donated quilt tops that did not meet the size requirements. Kathleen calculated and cut the fabric for the borders, and I attached them to the tops. I added borders to seven tops and sewed binding on one side of a finished quilt. sew day for Laramie Hospice Home February 2020 Several women were sewing quilt tops from kits or from supplies that they brought from home. Others were hand-tacking the bindings on two quilts. I believe by the end of the two days, the group had 12 - 15 tops and backings ready for the longarm quilters and two quilts bound and labeled and ready for donation. I gave the group  Comfort Quilt  so it could be quilted and donated to the Laramie Hospice Home. Hospice officials told the group they serve nearly 100 patients each year.

Bricks and Stepping Stones quilt for Laramie Hospice Home 60 x 75 inches January 2020 Bricks and Stepping Stones came together quickly since the "bricks" were already cut. The four patches took the most time to cut and sew.  One of the Laramie quilt guilds is hosting a sew-in to make quilts for the Laramie Hospice Home on February 7 and 8th. I'll deliver this top and its backing to the organizers of the sew-in and stay to sew with them. I made three quilts in January (two QOV and one hospice quilt) and managed to keep my sewing room tidy through the whole month.

112 four-patches (3.5 inches) January 2020 At last week's quilt guild meeting, we were told the local hospice center needed quilts. Since I was in-between quilt projects, I decided to make Bonnie Hunter's Bricks and Stepping Stones . I already had a bin of "bricks" cut, so I needed to make the required B/W four-patches. The four patches would have been faster and easier to make with yardage, but I had some small scraps of both white and black and decided to use them.

In The Wind In the Wind is finished. I'm happy with the layout and how the variety of background fabrics in the pinwheels work together. This quilt will be presented to the Hospice Home in Laramie, WY after it's been quilted.