Some of the members of my local quilt guild decided to make a Friendship quilt exchange. There are many ways to do this, but this is what we are doing. The quilt coordinator gives us a new block to make for each month. The mitten block below was for January. If we each make two blocks, then we have one to keep and one to give away. Then a drawing is held of those who committed to make blocks, and one person wins all of the blocks. That person can not win again, but is committed to make all of the blocks remaining. Since we all sew just a little different, there is a slight challenge of putting the quilt together, but it would be fun to get a lot of blocks that you could put into a small quilt. Whoever wins the February block, appropriately a heart, will have a nice little baby quilt. However, several of us found that block to be a little off in the cutting instructions, so we all made interesting modifications to the pattern. (The first one I sewed was more perfect than this one, but because I followed the original instructions carefully, I lost the bottom point on the star. Oh, well, better finished than perfect, as a famous quilter once said.
Some of the members of my local quilt guild decided to make a Friendship quilt exchange. There are many ways to do this, but this is what we are doing. The quilt coordinator gives us a new block to make for each month. The mitten block below was for January. If we each make two blocks, then we have one to keep and one to give away. Then a drawing is held of those who committed to make blocks, and one person wins all of the blocks. That person can not win again, but is committed to make all of the blocks remaining. Since we all sew just a little different, there is a slight challenge of putting the quilt together, but it would be fun to get a lot of blocks that you could put into a small quilt. Whoever wins the February block, appropriately a heart, will have a nice little baby quilt. However, several of us found that block to be a little off in the cutting instructions, so we all made interesting modifications to the pattern. (The first one I sewed was more perfect than this one, but because I followed the original instructions carefully, I lost the bottom point on the star. Oh, well, better finished than perfect, as a famous quilter once said.
