Old Mother Hubbard-Almost!

 Almost!!! My cupboard is getting bare!!

A self imposed delivery deadline had me

sewing up a storm. Yes I apologize Florida, 

but that was me! 

I had a few smaller quilts that needed finishing 

to go off to a local charity.  Thinking I had plenty of 

lead time I had a relaxing evening choosing backings,

cutting some batting and laying out for pinning. 

All pinned and ready for quilting!

Next day, the quilting begins, and I spend a great 

afternoon and evening listening to only happy tv shows

and putting my machine thru its paces with some grid 

quilting and in the ditch work.  

A wonderful morning walk and the notice that,   

the pickup is early afternoon!! Not one day more day,

but in 6 hours!!! Argh!

So complete the walk and head to the sewing room!

Three quilts to make and sew on binding, one to rinse, 

(don't eat cookies while you fold) and all four to label!

First pick the binding fabric. No time for a scrappy today

and certainly no creative brain when I'm in get it done mode. 

Yardage here we come. 

Well maybe a large scrap or two since the 

quilts are smaller. 

First some nice pink for a sparkly star!  

Then a pop of blue for a crib sized coin quilt.  The RSC  really

got a few scraps in play in my sewing mecca over the past year!

Then back to pink for another crib sized pink and beige beauty. 

Quicky cutting of 2 1/2" strips and I was in business.

 Have I told you lately that I love my 60mm cutter! 

 I really zips thru the fabric and seems faster somehow!  

Next up, join, join, join and make some nice piles of bindings strips.

Trimming off all the overlaps makes a 

nice pile of scraps for some more wonky star points!  

Definitely some crib and twin sparkly star

quilts coming next year!

All the binding got a lovely press on the board using the 

corsage pin method and a nice burst of steam. 

I was so glad I had trimmed everything the night before. It 

certainly felt good to get right to adding the binding to the back.

Then flip it over and using the clips to hold it, 

top stitched it all down with my foot to the floor!

Those clips were flying around the room !

Even changing thread colors didn't slow me down!

I used some cute labels from the overflowing box and 

put a, "Hugs from my home town" on each one and done!

Here they are! It was certainly a great year 

for my Rainbow Scraps! 

Blue crib sized with a double batting

to give it extra cuddle since I ran out of flannel. 

I just noticed one block says "Love".

Pink crib sized coin with a cute lavender flannel backing. 

The last of the wonky stars and postage stamps

quilts with the palest of 

yellow squares on flannel for the backing.

A bit of a marathon stitch but I  was done in

 time for 1 o'clock drop off!

The  quilting group had a great time looking

 thru the donations in our

own mini quilt show!

All counted, 20 quilts will go to comfort  someone. 

They are off to the Zebra child and youth advocacy center. 

This organization gifts about 400 quilts a year.

Busy days!  

Stay safe and sew on!

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