Sew Days At The House

This morning, I was up and ready for quilters. I ended up waiting a little longer than I expected. We had a couple of them that couldn't make it, but we did get a new person. So, all in all it was a good time. 

Only 3 of them were sewing, the other 3 of us were cutting and ironing. 

 This is the rail and nine patch. We didn't get it done, but we did get about half of it done. It takes forever on the 6" nine patches. It will get done in January when we meet again. 

This one the one from the pattern. We were trying to figure out how to place it. Kept coming up with this and then after everyone left, Patrick moved things around. 

He figured it out. We tried but it didn't come out that way. Val kept trying when she was here and we all were getting confused. This way works with the eagles. We had the eagles off for a bit. I will sew this together, then I'll add the white for border. The dark blue with be the binding. 

I did get a couple quilts today. I need to put the names on them and take them to the museum. Debbie cut the backing and batting for all the tops - minus 2 - and they are ready for when a quilter wants a quilt. She did 6 of them and measured the last 2. 

The good news is that we are ahead of ourselves right now. It will work out great! I'm hoping we can do about 8 veterans at a time because we now have 77 quilt requests. We have a long way to go. But we are getting there! 

Today turned out to be an awesome day of Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!