A long-time quilting friend, who leads one of my donation groups, recently bought a longarm quilting machine. She has offered to quilt our donations for Flying Horse Farm! So in future I’ll have pictures of the tops but not of the finished quilts, because she is willing to bind and deliver the quilts as well! What a deal!
Our group recently had a retreat, and that’s an additional story. I had cut out one project for each day of the retreat, thinking I could sew without having to get in the way of others trying to use the cutting area. That part worked out fine. However, I ran out of projects before I ran out of retreat time!!!
Luckily we all bring shoeboxes of fabric we no longer want and everyone takes something for a future project. I went to those boxes and found that a friend had donated a set of coordinating fat quarters she’d changed her mind about! This quilt is the result.
I had to wait until I got home to add the border because the retreat was 40 minutes from the nearest quilt store, in a lovely rural area. This isn’t the house where we stayed, just the neighborhood.
And here’s the quilt top I made from batiks I cut ahead of the retreat. I was able to finish that top and send it home with the friend who will quilt and donate it!
And that’s all we’ll see of these two tops, because after they’re quilted they’ll be donated directly!
Zippy Quilts 
Well done Zippy. Who else can zip up a quilt a day, with time to spare?!!
Both examples are lovely
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You got that right, Mariss!
Wonderful idea of everyone bringing the shoebox of fabric and sharing!
Yes! As always, one person’s trash is another’s treasure 😀
Gosh, I can’t think of a quilt retreat I’ve ever attended where I ran out of projects to work on! Maybe that’s from too much talking and not enough sewing? Or maybe I overestimate how much I can accomplish? Either way, retreats are always satisfyingly productive. I’m glad you found something else to work on while you were there. It definitely looks like a lovely area in which to retreat. Understandable about being quite a distance from a quilt shop. Our retreat place is two miles down a sand road, off a county highway. I would guess that the nearest quilt shop is two hours away, and there’s no place to eat within 20 miles. Our retreats are always a full stop retreat! It’s nice too that you’ll have someone to longarm your donation quilt tops. Can’t imagine that luxury. In fact, each year I am asked to quilt donation quilt tops on my domestic machine!
Oops, I think it’s pretty nervy for someone to ask you to quilt their donation tops, especially on your domestic machine! We never would have asked this friend–she volunteered. I budget for quilting on my donations and would suggest that most folks who can afford to make quilts can afford to pay for quilting as well. But that’s just my opinion.