VTMQG Sew-In and Anne's Handmade Joy Exchange

After our quilt guild meeting on Sunday morning, a bunch of us stayed on into the afternoon to finish piecing and prepping our quilt for the 2019 QuiltCon Community Quilt. (Actually the national guild uses the word "charity" quilt, we prefer the word "community"). To see the rules and guidelines for the challenge, look here.

Here's Becky, working on the quilt top. (Becky was a Peace Corps volunteer back in the day). Many of us took packets of fabric home with us in the fall and paper pieced various triangles. These were later cut up and sewn back together in random sections.

Rachael is working on the backing here. She has been our Treasurer ever since we got started back in 2014. She is a gem.

Here's the pieced binding being ironed. Check out that sneaky straight pin, holding the fold as the iron passes over it. #clevertip

This is the backing, in process. 

This sew-in was all about community. Intergenerational. So much banter. Such funny stories. So many quilting tips. Many hands make light work...and full hearts.

Have you read about Anne's Handmade Joy Exchange? Anne is hosting her 5th Exchange. I have participated in four of them and they are such a welcome splash of joy! I hope you'll consider joining in the fun. You can read all the details here. If you would like to join in, let Anne know ASAP. She'll be pairing folks up very soon, and letting people know about their partners on Friday.