Church Quilts

Our church stake was given a lot of fabric and it was divided up to each branch and ward.  The Relief Society was asked to make quilts for charity from this fabric.  We were to make the quilt tops then come together at the stake for a day of learning quilting techniques and to finish our quilts.  I served on the committee and was asked to work at the binding table. 
I made up four designs for our RS branch to choose from that would work together from the fabric amounts we had.  They chose a Begger Block pattern and a Triple Windmill pattern.  We gathered at the church three times to work on the quilt tops and I machine quilted them on Mother's long arm machine.  They were ready to be bound at the Stake Quilting Day.  I chose two different techniques to do and to teach. 
We made two twin bed sized quilts and then I made a baby quilt from the scraps of the Triple Windmill Quilt.

Begger Block                                                  Pieced back for Begger Block

            Triple Windmill

I had so much fun at the Stake Quilting Day.  There were so many beautiful quilts on display.  I helped several women bind their quilts, helped others plan their binding, demonstrated and finally did get one of our quilts bound that day.  I did the binding on the second one at home later because we ran out of time that day.  

The Colby Branch now has three quilts ready to give to someone in need in our community.  There was a house fire in Colby shortly after the quilts were finished and one was given to that local family.