How I wish each of you could have been with us at the Quilting Cottage today. So much activity going on! It was a real "bee hive".
There are about 10 women who have already passed the 1/4" test on the Singer machines, so each one of them was paired with a woman who hadn't done that yet. Not only does this get them to work together, but it also helps them learn teaching skills, which they will need when they become trainers.
Then those who weren't involved with that, began hand stitching the final border to our first "group quilt". The rest of the women came over to the cutting table and we cut squares for our next quilt, each woman taking a turn with the cutting. We pulled out some of the wonderful Kaffe Fassett fabrics for this new quilt. I wanted to show them how even simple squares of beautiful fabrics, can make a stunning quilt. By tea time we had our new quilt up on the design wall.
After tea, I showed them how to press the long binding we had made Friday, and get it ready to sew onto our hand quilted Keith Mallett pieces. Three ladies got to MACHINE sew the binding to their quilt. What a joy to to spend 5 minutes sewing on a binding by machine rather than spend all day doing it by hand.....and getting sore fingers in the process. Thank God for our Singers machines!
Before we left for the day, Rose had used the Singer to string together the blocks of the quilt on our design wall. What she did in a half hour, would have taken us days by hand. Tomorrow we'll do the horizontal seams in each section, and maybe even get the three sections sewn together. The women were so delighted to see how much faster everything was progressing now that we had sewing machines.
Thanks for all your prayers for the success of the quilting project. I can feel God with us each and every day, and He is blessing these precious women. We are so grateful for each and every one of you out there supporting our efforts.
God Bless You!
Love and a big hug,
Kitty
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