Each month, the guild hosts a Sewing Saturday where we come together to work on projects.  Once a year, the projects are all to make charity quilts.  This year, we teamed up in pairs to complete a Scrabble Patch pattern with the help of designer Karla Alexander.  She gave each of us help with our Scrabble Patch and also a copy of any pattern we wanted for later.  I picked the tumbling blocks (seen below).

My teammate, Ruth, met up with me at Sharon’s Attic Quilt Shop to cut up our pieces (mostly from Ruth’s stash) ahead of time, so when we arrived that morning, we started right away designing our quilt.

Other people used sports fabric, Hawaiian, floral, and many other color palettes. I took some pictures in black and white to see the contrast and how it helped with designing.

At the end of the day, we had finished our top except for adding the borders, which Ruth did at home and then together we sandwiched the quilt (using spray adhesive) while enjoying the company of others in my Piece and Quiet group.  I used a straight line quilting pattern on it and Ruth completed the binding.  It looks great and is ready to donate to a community organization!

charity final