Whooping Friday

My goal for 2020 was to get to a lot of those flimsies and get them quilted.  So far I have been managing four a month.  I've tried to stay away from all the NEW, but this Goats in Pajamas pattern just caught my fancy and buying a full kit that had tons of fabric along with the pattern - PLUS!

I've gone thru a lot of thread, but with these times I thought it would be a good idea to really look at my threads.  Oh, I have a lot of thread!.  I pulled some of my more specialty threads lately - something I don't use a lot - time to give them a chance to shine.  I used the Raspberry verigated on the back and the silvery verigated on the top.

The teal scraps used up in this little bag.  I used a lot of my teal/aqua up last year with a monochromatic large quilt - so at least I got one project in for the RSC20 Challenge.

We started to self quantine on the 12th so I have more houses than some.  A little house a day and using up that cute mini charm pack along with some smaller scraps.  I want this bright as we need to find some 'light' to this dark time.

This is a piece I did to express my feelings during Storm Irene.  I was in a bit of a dark place.  We've weathered other floods and even a few tornados (yes, in New York State) - I wasn't quilting then or I am sure I would have expressed myself thru them as well.

Just a close up - the empty lines ending with stars or round tiny buttons represented homes, farms, businesses, and even towns lost.

There are a number of quilt alongs, free projects, u-tube offerings, and projects galore on-line and face book and instagram - Quilters helping Quilters to get thru this together.  We've always been a driving force when a call of need goes out - now we need to support each other.  So take a look around and see what virtually is out there.  Participate, schedule, make plans - don't isolate yourself.  

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon