A New Old Love

I started quilting a few years ago, but for some reason I kind of dropped the hobby. I had been wanting to start up again, so I started asking a few people about quilting. It turns out that quite a few of the ladies at church quilt. One friend, Monica, makes incredible quilts! So I asked Monica if she would like to form a group to learn, teach, fellowship and make quilts. She agreed and we met for the first time this Saturday. We had six ladies show up and there were at least 4 more that couldn't make it for previous obligations. (The amazing thing to me is that our congregation is only about 40 people, and growing.)

Some of the ladies were complete beginners and some of our more seasoned members have always quilted completely by hand. We taught some new tricks with rotary cutting and chain stitching and low and behold we were able to create our first quilt top. Twelve pinwheel squares, none of them perfect but full of love and laughter. Monica is finishing it up quickly so we can give it to one of our home bound members for her birthday THIS Friday.

We are going to make lap quilts and give them to a resident of the month at our local nursing home. We go there every other month to sing and visit with the residents and we thought this would be a great way to brighten some one's day.

I knew if I would just get started I would fall in love with piecing quilt squares again. Now if I could completely finish a quilt, that would be awesome too!

Here are our squares. I know it is hard to tell what the final product will look like but we were proud to display our squares on the wall.