I Don't Even Know How This Happened...

Last week, a group of guild members gathered at my friend, Susan's house to work on blocks for the next guild raffle quilt. Although the show isn't until 2016, the quilt is always finished by the beginning of the year prior to the show. Then it can travel to various shops and venues to raise funds leading up to the show.    Six of us pulled out our sewing machines and pieced the fabrics that Susan had cut and prepared for the interior section of the quilt. We finished all of them.

Susan is the co-chair for the show, and she also drew the new quilt design in EQ. Her design is in the picture above, but the colors are only as a representation  of the variations, not the actual colors. The entire quilt will be worked in batiks.    When we got together, we all managed to create the blocks for the entire interior  section of the quilt. The blocks slowly change in value from the bottom to the top.

Remember my two Dresden plate quilts last year? Yeah. So did Susan. She packed  up all the fabrics for the half Dresdens around the interior border and sent them  home with me! She's really smooth, right? So, even though I said I was going to  take a break from guild quilt show projects, here I sit with stacks of fabrics.

I've been cutting 5-1/2" wide strips of batik fabrics into the wedges used to  create all the sections of the plates. I need to cut lots of different colors so that  I can make a few of the blocks just to be sure they are going to fit properly  into the design. Then, I can also be sure they'll fit in all around the quilt, too.

Susan and another guild member, Ann, met up late last week. They joined all the blocks together that we'd made at the first get-together.  Now, they're waiting   for these plates to be done to do the next section. So, here I am again...working  on another raffle quilt...for now. This time, I'm content to let others finish it up.    I'll see how far I can get with this today. My plan is to hand this off finished portion to another member this evening at our board meeting. Fingers crossed.