I HAD to clean the sewing room first!

My latest charity make at the binding stage: I needed free motion practice so this one is quite heavily quilted.

 I usually make charity quilts the width of the fabric so I don't have to piece the backing but I miscalculated with this one, its about 45".  

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I have been cutting triangles for the leader-ender project after raiding the 2" strip bin. 

They are sorted into groups of four

I sorted the odd ones separately, thinking I would make  really scrappy version: this morning I was reading my Kindle copy of More Adventures with Leaders and Enders and realised that the pattern uses these triangles, so I think a very scrappy version is on the menu! (Eventually)

Today the border went on this charity quilt (trimmings from a backing), and I am webbing another.

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I have been doing some of these

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 I have to keep a handle on the crumbs!

 All the trimmings of late have been binding trimmings or 2" ends, so today I sewed them into 10 1\2 inch strips to join the three sacks full I have already-I blitzed all my strings and crumbs before Xmas. I will save that mess for another post!

Air sewing

Needed a break after air sewing for 10 minutes!

These are going together really well, my accuracy is improving. Some really yukky colours here! There is enough variety in the hundreds of patches ready to sew that it will all look fine.

 I am using up reels of gifted poly thread to make these. The received wisdom is never use polyester with cotton: the more modern threads for quilters  are cotton coated polyester, I don't see the difference! I do not use polyester for the quilting especially for charity quilts, as someone may take it into their head to iron it!

A finish, a thimble and a plan.

Another finish this evening, a quilt for Linus about 40 " square. Quilted in the ditch to show off the fabrics.

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I have been manically sewing triangles for a coupe of weeks. They are now all pressed and sorted into sets of four, for charity quilts: 3/5 of these are my ugly fabrics. The photo is about half of them. That is an awful lot of dog ears to snip!  I will be making these up over the year, probably in several simple designs.  

Yesterday I sorted through the charity flimsies I had made from leftover blocks and found there were eight! I spent the morning adding borders and cutting backing fabric. One is pressed and the scrap wadding is pieced ready for layering and quilting  in the ditch tomorrow. 

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As soon as I have enough 'manly' colours sewn into broken dishes blocks with the triangles I will make up a lap quilt for a friend of my son. Due to diabetes he had a second leg amputated last year. He is an amazingly positive 86 year old who is now confined to a wheelchair.  My son is helping to clear his old flat.  I bought this mint antique silver thimble from him, it is a perfect fit, I am really pleased with it

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