Community Quilts from The Junction - The Farmed Out Quilt Top

Welcome to the first installment of a new series of posts titled Community Quilts from The Junction!!  Let me explain.

Not long ago, I signed up to do some finishing for an online charity quilt program.  Fabric, blocks, and quilt tops are delivered to a central point for redistribution.  Finishers (like me) take the fabric to make blocks, take the blocks to make tops, or take the tops to complete the quilts.  The completed quilts are donated to any charity organization of the finishers choosing.  The only stipulation is that we report back to Jo @ Jo's Country Junction.

The top and bottom quilt on this stack arrived several weeks ago:

You can find that story in THIS post about the quilts that I finished for Hands2Help.

Here is a(nother) chapter in the story of my first shipment...

This is the third of seven quilt tops sent to me by Jo.  This is a quilt that may have been made by the Cresco Ladies:

Needleb took it home and quilted it on her longarm:

B tried out a new panto on this:

Just look at that lovely texture:

She trimmed it up and bound it:

Another take on an interior photo:

A close-up:

Another look at the glorious texture:

The quiltmaker used a strip pieced pattern for this scrappy quilt to make a cohesive whole and B's quilting added to that:

This sweet pink quilt will soon be on its way to Quilty Hugs for Happy Chemo.  Needleb was SEW grateful for the opportunity to finish this for the Community Quilts program at Jo's Country Junction.  It allowed her to contribute to this year's Hands2Help Comfort Quilt Drive with Sarah @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

NOTE:  The panto used can be found at THIS LINK.

Until next time...

QUILT for comfort!!!

Wonderful Wednesday - H2H21 - A Little Help from my Friends

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  I'm here to share a couple of quilts that will be going out in this week's mail:

The quilt in the foreground is made from 4-Patch blocks shared by my good friend Dee Dee.  The top was finished a couple of years ago.  That UFO provided a little jumpstart on this quilt:

Fresh off the longarm, this little quilt was trimmed up...

... And waiting for binding, but I shared it at my Monthly Quilt Bee:

Binding selections were found in the scrap binding drawer:

This quilt will go to Little Lambs Foundation for Kids:

The next quilt came to me in a donation from one of Sarah's readers, as a result of my own Guest Blogger spot @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict for this year's Hands2Help Comfort Quilt Challenge. 

Elaine sent a box with two quilts, hoping they would work for the Lutheran World Relief Quilt Drive going on here at The Joyful Quilter.  She included the following note:

Elaine's quilt is being passed on to Quilty Hugs for Happy Chemo:

Until next time...

SHARE the Love!!!

H2H21 - Help from The Junction

Welcome to my 2021 Hands2Help finished quilts post!!  I'm here to share my contributions to two of the participating charities.

I started out making blocks inspired by Sarah's first tutorial in this year's String Therapy series.  I continued making blocks and eventually finished enough for a quilt, but got bogged down at the assembly phase. Those will turn into a quilt sometime in the future and won't be counted in this year's numbers.  :o((

Enter Jo @ Jo's Country Junction...

She saved my skin on this year's Hands2Help Comfort Quilt Challenge!  Thanks to contributions from Jo's readers @ Jo's Country Junction, I had quilt tops ready to be quilted.

I was determined to knock out my donation in one fell swoop...

The photo below shows FOUR of my H2H quilts loaded on the frame at once!  The two in the foreground came from Jo's generous readers: 

Here they are trimmed...

 ... And waiting for binding:

I tried to pull some binding from the leftovers drawer:

That tactic worked a bit better for this quilt:

A donation for Quilty Hugs Happy Chemo...

This adorable Log Cabin Kitties quilt top came from Barb in Denver:

It was bound with a scrap from Wendy @ The Constant Quilter:

Here is a finished photo...

... Along with a close-up of the pieced center:

A donation for Covered in Love, in memory of Paula B...

I believe this quilt top may have been from the Cresco Ladies.  They are prolific quiltmakers who live a few towns over from Jo:

This photo was taken in the studio just after the binding was complete:

I tried to get a good "floor photo"... 

... Including a shot of the backing that I provided:

The next day...

 It was actually too sunny to get a good photo:

Then a storm blew in and it was too windy... and later, too rainy:

Thank you to my assistant, Knittingsuek!!

The top and bottom quilts in this stack are ready to head off to their new homes:

More about the other quilt in another post.

Thank you, Jo, for helping me help others!  These quilts will be out in the mail by the end of the week.

Until next time...

Quilt to GIVE!!!

Tidy Up Tuesday - Reeling in RED

Welcome to another edition of Tidy Up Tuesday!!  Yesterday was the final RED day for this year's Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I've got one more project to share.

As with the other projects in May's Color of the Month, this one began with me scrounging for scraps in the RED Quilted Scrap Basket:

 

I found a leftover Crumb block section from some other year's project:

It seemed to want to be the center of attention, so I built out from there:

Ultimately, I ended up with this little quilt top:

Then, eventually it came time for the quilting...

... Which was done on my longarm:

Binding was from my friend Libby...

... In her recent scrap enhancement:

Thanks, again, Libby!!

I finished it up in the middle of last week, but didn't get around to posting this latest addition to my Gallery Wire Mini Series:

I tried it out on our entry table, but it was a bit too big to fit:

Then I took it outside to see if I could get a better color portrayal:

After that, it went for a little garden tour...

Thanks for stopping by to see what's been keeping my busy!

Whooping it up with Sarah

@

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

and

Sharing with Cynthia

for

Oh Scrap!

Until next time...

Make MINI!!!