A Serging We Will Go

Our May meeting wasn't a productive as usual mainly because we were busy working and planning for next month's festival booth. Here's one that was turned in before our planning time:

Claire was gifted with a brand new serger from her husband.  She been putting it to making baby quilts

Pink and Lace

Turned in at the May meeting.  Those are 20 inch blocks that make up the center of the quilt. May seem too skinny, but great for bassinets, strollers or car seats.

A Quick and Easy one.

The outer blocks are 6" finished.  The center is an 18" square.  Couldn't be easier. This one measures 30" square as it was going to a neonatal unit.

From a Bag

A member took home a bag of scraps and surprised us with this !  A fun way to make a baby quilt. Measures 36" square.

For March babies

Blocks on white colored with fabric markers by children at our last parish festival - a way to have them help us and let them share in doing a corporal work of mercy.

Another for February

This one for the Neonatal Unit.

This is an enlarged Baton Rouge block made to a 30" square dimension - the minimum size for our local unit.

Buried with Thread

back of a rag quilt from recycled fabric

"To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a woman's eyes can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only women can hear the prayer."

                            ~ LOUISE ERDRICH, Four Souls as posted by Sherry Redowl on Facebook from Walk in Beauty.