I set a goal for 2018 to make 52 charity quilts in 52 weeks. Join the community and share your charity makes too!

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I've been on a roll with the charity quilts this year. It's a great way to practice quilting or try out new things. Here are the two I fini...

Working on quilts for 2024. Most quilts will go to Wrap-A-Smile though a few will go to Quilts of Valor & most will go to Wrap-A-Smile. I was away for several months this year so my production has been down. Several of my quilting friends in the Sunshine Online Quilting guild are making 44 quilts for 2024. It's now October 25 so I am thinking I'll not have that many quilts for this year but heck, I'll try to get as many done as possible. Back of prior quilt

Quilters often give their time and talents to make quilts for charity. These easy quilts offer instructions for multiple sizes, allowing you to access the correct size for the charity of your choice.

I suppose it is inevitable, isn’t it? Many of us need ideas on how to use our scraps or pieces to make quick and easy charity quilts. Let me show you some common ones I use or HAVE used. 1. Simple squares in two colors For example, yellow and green or pink and purple - here are two of my early

These are scraps left from Under the Big Top that I made last summer for a great nephew. This is a charity quilt and I also have learned a neat way to sew the binding on entirely by machine. Here is a close up!! These are leftover pieces from the Chevron quilt I made for another great nephew earlier this year. What shall I do?? I am pretty fond of strippy quilts so I started putting pieces in rows, cutting up a few larger pieces and all of a sudden I had a cool finished quilt! I am afraid my…

I'm making 52 quilts in 2018 for Jack's Basket, where babies with Down syndrome are celebrated. I went through my calendar and numbered all 52 of the Saturdays in 2018. Since June has 5 Saturdays, I finished 5 quilts this month. We went on a road trip to California this month. While staying at my DH's childhood home, I pieced 11 baby quilt tops on this Singer 201 that was his grandmother's sewing machine, manufactured in March of 1950. With a lot of oil (there must've been 30 oil spots in…

I'm making 52 quilts in 2018 for Jack's Basket, where babies with Down syndrome are celebrated. In May I worked on quilts 18, 19, 20 and 21: Quilt number 18 is quilted with Macaroni: Quilt number 19 is quilted with Pretty Paisley: Quilt number 20 is quilted with Baby Curls: Quilt number 21 is quilted with Spring Thing: The quilt pattern I'm using is "Simple Gifts" from the mini book, Fat Quarter Love, by Modern Quilt Studio. Do you have a go-to baby quilt pattern? I'm being affected by the…

Most of us love precuts and fat quarters. They make life so much easier when quilting, enabling us to have to cut and measure a little less. Fat quarters usually come in pre-selected color co…