WOW

It's been about a month since I started my quilting project. I have donated 53.25 hours quilting 24 quilts! At about .015 cents a square inch and thread and needle charges that comes to $1444.97. I originally thought quilting the 10 large quilts that the DI donated to my project would get me my 40 hours of quilting time. My mother in law generously donated all thread, needles, pantographs and of course the use of the machine plus she purchased fabric for two large quilt backs.

Once I announced my project in Relief Society really just wanting backing and batting, I was almost overwhelmed with fabric donations from 3 people. Pair that with my one Facebook post which generated cash donations from my Auntie Ve and my dad, this project was on a roll!

My wonderful Donna loves to tie quilts, she alone donated these warm quilts

 Plus, she put these quilts together for me even donating batting and backing. She is so nice and willing to help.

Even after donating TONS and TONS of fabric, Ingrid wanted to tie a couple of quilts, donating additional batting and backing.

There were a lot more hours that I had put into this project that are not counted with ironing, binding and piecing the quilts. I pieced these together as quickly as I could because of the short time span I had.

I did learn alot. I can now sew a semi straight line, bast the top to the batt and back, follow the pantograph with the laser pretty well. I can set the tension, and listen to the machine to know when I am out of bobbin thread. I had to fix the machine when it was supper low on oil and when I jammed the needle pretty bad. Quilting a lot at one time is physically exhausting. Wish the machine was at my house so I could have spread the quilting out over the weeks and not just on the weekends.

Thanks to everyone who donated cash, fabric, binding and their time. The quilting hours are not what is important. The important thing is that a few people came together with their resources and together we donated 41 quilts to the Bishops Storehouse (includes 4 in process) and 3 receiving blankets made by Janeen.