November VCQ Meeting

Last weekend I attended our Virginia Consortium of Quilters meeting in Martinsville, VA.  In the previous post I showed some quilts from the Piedmont Arts show we attended Friday evening.  Our meeting/workshop day was held on Saturday and I took a class called Gift Bags Plus taught by Abby Geddes.  This was a fun class!  In the 5 hour class period, we made a gift bag, a zipper pouch, a notebook cover - actually, we finished all 3 of those before lunch! After lunch, we made some bonus gifts - a gift card holder and a coaster; I made 2 of each.  So it was a very productive day!  All quick and easy, but it was so nice to end the day with finished projects!

One of the other classes was focused on our VCQ charity project, which is making pillowcases for foster children in Virginia.  42 cases were completed that day.  A large number of foster children are boys, so the focus was on making cases appropriate for them. 

Final 2011 Projects

It's been a busy week!  Having the week off between Christmas and New Year, I decided it was time to get to work on some of the projects I hadn't had a chance to work on in the last month, so I spent lots of quality time with my sewing machine!

First, I had 10 charity pillowcases waiting to be finished - that was a quick and easy task to be crossed off the list.

I also discovered I had way more unwashed fabric than I realized, so I sorted it into light, medium and dark and washed it all!  10 inches worth of fabric!

Another thing I've worked on this week while traveling is baby booties - we have several people at work expecting.  One pair finished, 2 more to go for January!

More tomorrow!

VCQ Charity Project

Last weekend, the Virginia Consortium of Quilters met in Blackstone, VA to work on our new charity project: pillowcases for foster children in Virginia.  In one day, we completed 186 pillowcases, and sent home another 110 to be finished.  Working with an organization called First Care, the finished pillowcases were divided up to go to organizations in 5 different areas of the state for distribution to foster children.  We had a great time and wonderful sense of accomplishment putting these together; the prints and colors are all so happy, we hope they bring lots of smiles to the children who receive them.