It's been awhile since I've posted

I guess that means I don't lead a very exciting life. Rather than doing many art quilts I've been working on trying to use up some of those many scraps that I can't seem to throw away. I've been making child-sized quilts to donate to my guild's Sunshine Quilt project for children. I'm now working on #7 and still have enough scraps for probably two more.
























It's also the time of the year when I make a throw size quilt with my second grade class. This is the tenth year I've done this. In all but 2 years the quilts have been given to a resident of our local care center. Folded in half it can be used as a lap quilt and open it's large enough to cover them when they lay on their beds. Two years the quilts were raffled for local fund raisers. The first raised $1800 for our new playground equipment and the second raised $450 for a project to purchase snack food items and cards, etc. to send to the soldiers in Iraq from our school. This year's quilt will again go to a care center resident.



















After initially complaining about it being a 'girl's project', the boys love doing the machine sewing and hand sewing as much if not more than the girls. You can tell by the photo that they all seem pleased with their product. Here they're shown with a handprint that they hand quilted around. I then mounted them in embroidery hoops and sent them home.