Church Ladies

A few months ago I met the quilt group ladies at our church.   Our church is large enough to have a dedicated room just for the sewing girls!   There are machines of all varieties which have been donated by church members over the years and the walls are lined with shelving that has all the cotton fabric folded and neatly separated by color family.  

We make quilts for various charities in the community and there is a never ending list of those in need who would like some of our quilts.   Since we make quilts from whatever fabric is given to us, we must get creative pulling the colors together to make the quilts pleasant.   One day when I first came to group, one of the ladies was commenting about how difficult it was to blend anything with a piece of fabric laying on the table.   Well, I just love a challenge!   After picking thru the shelves for a while, I felt that I had a large enough stack of fabrics that would work with the "offensive" material so I headed for home to play.

Here's what I put together:

All the fabrics were first cut into 2-1/2" & 3" strips of varying lengths.The 2-1/2" strips were sewn randomly together to create one mega-long strip and then I repeated with the 3" strips.   Next, they were all cut into 54" long strips and placed side by side, sometimes inserting a narrower strip in between the wider 3" strips so that there were varying widths and colors.  When I was pleased with the arrangement all the strips were then joined one to another until the quilt top was all together.   Add batting, backing, machine quilt it and put on the binding and you're done.  Pretty easy!  
Give it a try it sometime?
Debbie