Ready to be Adopted

I'm happy to say that all six quilts that went to Chicago for quilting got done.  And, I'm happier to say that my knees are none the worse for it.  I wasn't sure at the time but after giving it some thought, I'm pretty sure marathon quilting could be an Olympic sport.  I was able to get one done on the afternoon I arrived, two done the next day and double down and finish three on the last day.

I'm just as happy to say that four bindings are on the six quilts and the remaining two are cut out and ready to be assembled and attached.  It's hot here and putting bindings on full size quilts (the last two are small queens) can be sweaty work if the AC is not doing its best.

But I'm happiest to say that the dollies quilt only lacks a label and she's ready to be donated.  I've put out a feeler to the church we attend and will see if they are interested.  Donating a quilt that you love is a bit of a risky thing when you come down to it.  I love it -- but will they even want it?  They are planning a mission trip to South Africa next year and are in the midst of fundraising.  This seems like a natural to me but I'm not who counts.  Many organizations around here raffle off quilts -- but we haven't been attending this church long enough to know if that's normal.  If not, it could always go in a silent auction.

Either way, I'll see what they have to say and will hope it can find its way into a good home that will love it.  I did put a hanging sleeve on it in case it ends up on a wall -- either during a fundraising effort or once its been adopted.

If you missed earlier posts on this (and there have been a few), I fell in love with this quilt when Lynn Dykstra posted about it on her blog, klein meisje quilts.  She details falling in love with it under An Extravagant Welcome and goes on to give detailed instructions on the construction.  She also made twice as many of these little babies as I did!

I fell in love too and knew I wanted to make it -- even if I wasn't sure where it would end up. You can check out the posts listed as "dollies" to get my take on it.  They go together beautifully and I was fortunate enough to have some fat eights of skin tone solids I had bought years and years ago at Keepsake Quilting with no idea what I would do with them.  The pix of the quilt are not so good -- we were fighting the wind yesterday as we were trying to get pix.  It's really not curvy and does lie flat -- I promise.

So, I will be putting my dollies up for adoption and will trust they find a good home and someone that loves them as much as Lynn and I do.  I am also going to start lobbying for marathon quilting in the next winter olympics!

I hope you are working on something you love!  Jan