Last community sewing day for 2018

 Another year of community sewing days has come to an end, and a very productive year it has been. The final count is not yet in, but more than 50 quilts have been made for our community collection. We felt we were a bit slow to get sewing on this last day, but talking and planning for current and future projects are important parts of the process, as is that first coffee.  In march next year we will have been holding ten monthly sewing days a year for ten years, an initiative from Lynette who was our Convenor at the time. We might even talk her into a photo for the anniversary ... 

Meanwhile, we did get quite a bit of sewing done - these are just the ones that we took photos of:

Dawn had finished a top started at the jelly roll sewing day,
auditioned backing fabric and pin basted it.

Yvette made serious sashing and corner stones (tiny nine patches)
to join together the second set of donated barn blocks.
The blocks are pieced from beautiful Denyse Schmidt fabrics.

Daphne has renovated a donated mystery quilt top that the
original maker did not like (the other half has already been done
by Susan), into a lap sized quilt that she and Dawn pin basted.

Elaine W was stitching together gorgeous blocks made from
her own and community stash fabrics

Miriam hand sewed labels onto finished quilts.

Jill began sewing a stack of 5" squares from the
community stash ...

... into disappearing nine patch pieces ...

... that will become double disappearing nine patch blocks,
using the tutorial on A Few Scraps blog here.