It's a finish!
Wonky Windmills
40 x 56
I started making the blocks as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project back in 2023 from 4.5 or 5 inch width scraps in the RSC color of the month. I had a little box of different gray scrap chunks I used as the background. Each block takes two 4.5 x 5 rectangles of the background fabric and windmill fabric and yields a 8.5 inch unfinished block.
By mid year 2024 I had quite a stack of blocks and divided them into piles for four quilts - three twin sized and this child sized with mostly novelties. I need to make a few more blocks to add to a couple of the piles. I assembled this top back in August 2024.
I quilted it on my sewing machine with swirls. It was one of the first things I tried many years ago when I ventured into freemotion quilting on my sewing machine so it seems to go pretty fast after all these years of doing it.
I added a scrappy gray binding.
This is the pieced backing. Looks kind of like a giant pillowcase.
Now it is ready for donation to Wrap-A-Smile. There has recently been an urgent call for quilts because there are more upcoming Rotaplast missions than prevously anticipated. That's a good thing.
"Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities. Working with local professionals, Rotarians, and other organizations, Rotaplast sends multidisciplinary medical teams to provide free reconstructive surgery, ancillary treatment, and training for the comprehensive care of these children." Wrap-A-Smile provides each child undergoing surgery with a quilt.
I have donated quilts to Wrap-A-Smile since 2013 (I think) and every once in awhile it is fun to spot a quilt I made with a child. I just added a page at the top of my blog with pics of kids around the world with a quilt I've made.
If you are interested in donating quilts to Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) please read the WAS Guidelines and WAS Shipping Info. Or you can email me and I'll be happy to answer your questions.
The latest Rotaplast mission is taking place in Luxor, Egypt. You can see an explanation of the mission and patients with a few quilts in the April 14 Rotaplast blog post - The Patient's Journey.
And sew on...
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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)
Yesterday I received a box with scraps and backings from Ann.
Yesterday I received my order from a big sale at Stark Bros. - a peach tree to replace my old one that has been slowly dying, a seedless grape vine and two different apple trees because I couldn't pass by apple trees for $18.16 especially when one is one of my fav apples - Honeycrisp. The other is Golden Delicious and isn't too bad either. I guess I have today's work cut out for me but it's supposed to rain.
10 comments:
Happy Easter to you and your husband. We moved to a house with some fruit trees. The apple tree is blossoming now and it is the best year yet for blossoms. I hope you get to play in your garden today. You inspire me to go to my sewing room. Thank you.
What a fun project. Happy Easter
Happy Easter to you both--good that it might rain--excellent for planting as long as it doesn't bucket down, right?
I love your wonky windmills, Cathy; that is a fun block.
Hugs, Julierose
Wonky, colourful, and cheerful. What's not to like. I hadn't noticed but after I read it looks like a giant pillowcase, I laughed. You're so right; it does. I love that red and black print. I would love to grow grapes. Not sure it would like my rich clay soil. Enjoy! ;^)
Such a happy Wonky Windmill quilt and will definitely be loved by some little one. Good luck with the apple tree planting, there's nothing quite like a fresh apple picked right off the tree is there!!
Happy Easter, Cathy. Wonky Windmills is a fun and playful quilt. I love it!
I love your windmills. The quilting swirls seemed appropriate for the windmills stirring up the wind. You got two of your favorite things in the mail. Something for your outside Garden and something for your inside quilting garden of fabrics. How exciting.
Honeycrisps are my favorite, too. Great price for your new apple trees - aren't sales wonderful?!!
Wonky Windmills is awesome! What a great finish! I love honeycrisps too. Great to grow apples!
Those windmills will be spinning in the gusts we're having today! And thanks again for the reminder about Wrap-a-Smile.
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