It is much easier for me to give quilts to charity than knitwear. It doesn’t take as much time and effort to make a quilt.
Every year LAMQG chooses a charity. This year it is Harvest Home, a haven fro homeless pregnant women and the babies that are born there.
I have leftover blocks and plenty of fabric, so it was time to get working.
I had heard of the method Headers and Enders, as a way of creating quick blocks as an afterthought. Bonnie Hunter popularized this method. It didn’t make sense to me until I heard her speak about it on a podcast. I won’t explain it here, go to her blog.
I have quite a few 2.5″ blocks and it’s very easy for me to cut more on my Accuquilt.
I can’t do straight forward scrappy, I need a plan. So here we go, take an orphan block and build a border out of these newly made blocks.
My decision is to have two sides cool colors, blue-greens. the other two sides warm – yellows and reds.
I went to LAMQG sew day and finished up this top. This is happy and bright, should keep any baby not only warm but stimulated.
The quilting itself is a very basic free motion quilting. I think it took me maybe an hour to quilt. I always find that it really is the quilting that brings it all together.
Plain backing. I did add my label. I made this after all.
Sun sparkling on the surface of these scrappy squares is lovely.
One of these days this hippo will be gifted to someone. Until then, he gets a place of honor on my quilts.
Next meeting I will be very happy to hand over the quilt and hope that it becomes a cherished heirloom for someone.
Leah