Sewing Bee

We started the day with donated blocks, roughly sorted into piles of warm, cool and neutral colours:

And ended the day with 12 or 13 assembled quilt tops of various sizes:

Along the way there was a lot of:

Cutting.

Shuffling of blocks, and arranging them on every flat surface.

including the floor.

Sewing.

Sewing machines included my Singer featherweight, a 70s Husqvana, a couple of Pfaffs, several Janomes and a couple of Berninas.

Eleven machines in all (one not visible), and two more volunteers who concentrated on cutting, pressing, and making cups of tea.

Ironing.

Then lots of finished tops.

And happy quilters! Particularly me, as I had been worried that no-one would turn up, or that everything would go wrong and the day would be a complete disaster. But in fact there were lots of volunteers, and everyone seemed to have a good day. Phew!