Thursdays' Blog

Busy day!  Drove out to Cokato to visit the folks.  Spent the morning at my mom's old church with her quilting group.  What a well oiled machine they are!  Everyone knew what they were doing.  They meet weekly on Thursday mornings from Jan. through May.  The rest of the year I believe they meet monthly.  They have already made 80 quilts!  There was one gal who was sewing around the borders of the completed quilts.

One gal ironed the labels on the backs of the completed quilts and baged and labeled the completed quilts for various donation locations.  There were 6 gals tying quilts.

There were 3 of us putting the backing batting and tops together and pinning them.  Most of the baby quilts then are taken to the nursing home in town where some of the woment that used to quilt work on tying them in the activies room.  How cool is that.  They even have one gal that makes a treat each week, makes the coffee and then washes the dishes so the quilters can get back to work.  It was amazing.  Here is the group taking a short break.

My mom is center and front in this photo.  All of the pieced quilts are made with 9" squares to a predetermined size and the backing are all a twin size flat sheet from Walmart.  Many of the baby quilts are whole cloth quilts.  One person does all of the cutting of the 9" squares at home and another does the sewing of the tops at home.  It was amazing.

Then I headed home for an evening of my craft group.  Two of the gals had been out of the country since we last met so we heard stories of their travel adventures.

Carol was working on felt Easter eggs for her grandkids school teachers, Verna did some work on some handmade greeting cards and I worked on my secret (heart) project.  Lois brought some fabric to show us that she had purchased on her trip.