Thursday, February 1, 2024
Donation Quilt Completed
Our guild is going to donate a stack of quilts to the local Women's Resource Centre in the spring. We donated a dozen last year and they appreciated them, so we'll do it again. We were kindly given a generous community grant, so that helped with the cost of buying batting and backing for these quilts. Everything is so expensive these days, it's not cheap to make a quilt, let alone a dozen of them.
This pattern is a variation of the Potato Chip block, I don't know if it has an official name.
I made a silly mistake when quilting it, I accidentally put a cone of Bottom Line thread on the top. I wound it on the bobbin and was going to use Glide thread on the top, but I grabbed the wrong cone to thread the machine. Duh! After an entire section was done, I discovered the error. It was too late to change thread, so I continued with it. The end result was ok, but the quilting doesn't show up on the top very well because the thread is so fine. Oh well, live and learn.
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