July Already?

I don't know where the time is going. Gardening, housework, etc. all continues to need doing. July is over half over and I don't have anything to show for it other than some pictures. The bags and pillows got finished for the cancer group at our local hospital. Then it was on to a new charity project.

I have been working on some "slabs" as in Sunday Morning Quilts. Cheryl put the call out for these blocks that she would sew together, have quilted by volunteer long-arm quilters and then get them bound at a binding party with all her sewing friends helping. I made the above 10 and then made one more purple one, but forgot to take another picture. Cheryl lives in Calgary & is going to see that the finished quilts go to people who lost everything in the Calgary and area floods.

A friend of mine made these nine.

Some members of my quilt guild made these! Sue at thimbles & things donated backing & everything got sent off to Cheryl today. According to Canada Post she should have them by Friday. I hope so as the deadline is July 30th. Now I can get back to the quilting of one of the charity quilts. The other one got quilted by a friend and bound by another friend. It was lovely to see it finished. I will take pictures of both when I get the second one done. It will be really nice to get back to sewing for myself & my family again. Maybe in a couple of weeks! Oh, my friend & I did get signed up for the classes we want to take at the Houston International Quilt Festival at the end of October. I have my confirmation already! We are going to be away for seven days, six nights. I am really starting to get excited! I hope you all get time to do some sewing this week. I am going to push myself and try to get two hours done every night. At that rate I should be able to get back on track! I will let you know next week!