Mish Mash

I have been busy the past couple of weeks.  Just not a lot to show for everything I have been doing.

I took on the charity lead for quilt guild and this followed me home at the beginning of the month after the 1st charity sew day of the year.

Those 4 piles of boxes were all full of guild fabric for charity.

I spent some time one day making repairs to a top that was donated.

I just had to try to match a fabric which was kind of reproduction colors.  I think I did alright.

I shared the charity sewing I have been doing for church also.

1 down and 4 more to go.

Then last Thursday I was contacted and told that someone had donated a couple of garbage bags worth of fabric to the Quilt Guild.  I went and picked it up.  

I think there is between 10-15 of these garbage bags full of fabric.  All I could think of was that I felt like this painting

Something had to give!  It was time to clean out the bedroom that all of the great aunt and uncle's belongings had been stored in. I told the kids I had a plan , and nine big 3ft by 3 ft boxes later, and 2 trips to goodwill the bedroom was cleaned out except for office equipment, and all of the guild charity boxes had been moved into the bedroom and it only took us about 1 hour.

I brought in a banquet table and put painter's tape with measurements marked.  I decided that charity must be treated like a part time job right now.  Organize, organize, organize.  So I will go through the bags, and figure out what is yardage that can be used for backs, what is too feminine, and start to prep it for kits.

I did go sew for a bit with a friend on Friday.  But the only other selfish sewing I have done is my temperature quilt.

And one evening putting together the final parts for my Quiltworx quilt Vintage Rose.

Only 19 more of these to go.

I did grab scraps and tried making a quilt block along the same lines as one I saw.  This was much bigger.

It is marinating right now.  The blocks are 18 1/2 inches; 18 inches finished.  Not a bad size for a simple baby quilt.

The only other thing that has fascinated me lately is our weather.  We went from this:

To this:

I was surprised when I looked up the ratio of snow to water when it melts.  Ten inches of snow makes 1 inch of water.

Finally I needed to share my package that was sent to me by JulieRose of Julie Rose Quilts.  I have been raving how much I love working with wool.  Julie was purging and had decided she really didn't want to work with wool, and so her stash came my direction!

Oh my goodness such yumminess.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.....I cannot even begin to tell you how much it is appreciated.