I have made a number of quilts for charity. The Valley guilds share a charity sew in day a few times a year. Presidents Day was perfect to sit and sew. I’m so impressed with what these guilds do for charity, placemats for meals on wheels, dog beds, pillows for veterans who have gone through heart surgeries, any size quilts and pillowcases for foster homes. 
Just a few of the women who brought their machines and were busy working.
There are a lot of donated fabrics, more on that soon.
People were tying quilts as well as quick quilting. These here are backed with fleece. A cheap option, especially here in CA, since it’s warm and soft, one doesn’t need to add batting. Sometimes they do add batting anyway.
These had to be either old blocks or tops that were finished as quilts. Holly Hobby went out of style over 30 years ago, the colors are also quite old. That is the wonderful thing about quilts, no matter what, it will be a warm loving gift for someone.
I brought all my orphan blocks, most are blocks I made for the purple challenge but didn’t use. Others are my practice blocks, there is the pineapple block, the square I ended up using for Eyals’ quilt. Do you see the blue fabric? I picked that up here and proceeded to border the small blocks so that they all are 12.5″. I even used the blocks that I felt weren’t up to snuff for my purple challenge.
Using the blue on all the smaller blocks helps tie them together.
Yay! First time I traveled with my Featherweight. It worked beautifully, although I had to ask someone else to remind me how to fill a bobbin. She had her Featherweight there as well but didn’t quite remember. Together we figured it out.
I sashed it all with light grey. Some people were surprised that I’m making this for charity. Here’s the thing, I love quilting, I don’t care how much time I spend on it. But, I don’t need hundreds of quilts. Yes, I do give many away as gifts, I think I have mentioned before that giving a quilt away is easier for me than giving a knitted item away. So I am earmarking this one for the Thomas Fire victims. I’ve made many blocks for quilts, but I know, they will be thrilled to have a lap-size, completed quilt to give to one of the many victims of the fire and mudslide.
Leah