Working on stuff for the guild

Saturday, toward late afternoon, I had given up on doing any more handwork with the hexagon quilt, so I took some time to get caught up on some other smaller items.

First on the list, was the red and white blocks, for the quilts being made for Quilt of Valour.  Some of the ladies/members of the Mississauga Quilt Guild, are also a part of this group making quilts for Quilt of Valour.  Quilt of Valour is trying to make and distribute a total of 20,000 quilts to veterans across Canada by 2020.  I was told that they have achieved about 14,000 so far.  Wow!  Pretty cool how much they have done already.  I'm going to estimate that they will not only meet that goal, but also surpass it.

The ladies organized these log cabin blocks.  They have a bunch of kits ready at the guild, for people to pick up and work on.  Some will make the blocks, others will assemble them, and there are others who will quilt them and finally someone will bind them.  By breaking up the task, it is easier for them to find people to help out.  People will pick their favourite part of making a quilt and do it.

This was only my second visit back to the Mississauga Quilt Guild, from a long break, due to conflicting work schedule.  Many familiar faces and many new ones.  It was nice being back.

Second up on the list was for the Guild.  The Guild will be having a quilt show on May 8 & 9/2020.  They are starting now to work on the raffle quilt.  The raffle quilt is very pretty, with lots of half square triangles (HST).  It will be a scrappy batik quilt.  So the ladies organizing this quilt have put together kits to get the HSTs done. Each kit has two light/neutral background fabrics, so we the members were to cut three squares from our own stash to go with them.  Two were used to make the four HSTs and the last one is to be returned whole for making the actual blocks.

As you can see above, I took four kits and finished them.  The layout has nothing to do with the final quilt.  I figure once they have all the kits back, they will make up more kits with these pieces and assorted others to make the blocks for the quilt.  Later sections of the quilt and so on, until the quilt top is done.

I am glad to be a part of it.  Once it's done, there will be raffle tickets to sell and volunteering at the show itself.  There is a lot of work that goes into a quilt show, but they are well worth it.  The display of quilts is always gorgeous.