SAQA Aucton quilt and others

 I received an email yesterday telling me that my SAQA Auction quilt had sold. Happy to hear. Radically Red, made using my hand dyed cotton and Dupioni silk and a lot of free motion machne quilting. I'm glad it went to a good home.

Other news. I finally fnished puting together the 30 blocks I received from the Toward 2025 Project in the Pheonix, AZ Botanical Gardens. You can read all about it here

https://www.toward2050az.com/

The 30 blocks I received  were of various techniques and skills and it was challenging to sew them together, but not nearly as challenging as quilting it. When I volunteered to make a quilt I thought it would be be lapquilt size not bed size. I have often quilted very large quilts, but they were quilted in segments and then the quilted sections were sewn together. I have done this many times with great success, but there was no way to do it for this quilt.

Each block quilted down to 9" with two inch borders and sashing. I lugged my Bernina downstairs to the dining room table to give it more room to spread out. I still found it very difficult to do. I chose to sash it with this limey green fabric, hoping to give it some cohesiveness. 

When I received the blocks, the labels were sewn onto the back of each block. I had to pick them off and sew them onto the backing of the quilt, before the quilting, another challenge to get them in the right places, so that they corresponded to the blocks in the front.

I had a large piece of Micki Lawler Skydye fabric and with the addition of my ice dyed fabric down the middle there was enought for the backing.

These quilts will be given to victims of Climate Change......hurricane, flood, etc. I hope someone will enjoy snuggling under it.

Other news, not so happy, I fell in my studio this week and broke two ribs. Ouch! Very painful, but there is nothing to be done. I spent a whole day in the ER so I could get a cat scan, The X-ray taken at Urgent Care did not show any breaks but the doctor wanted me to get a Cat scan because it was close to my kidneys. Thankfully it did not affect the kidney but did show two broken ribs. They no longer tape up the ribs, you just have to be patient and let them heal. How did I fall? I'm not really sure, I was pivoting from one table at a right angle to another (something I've done a million times) and down I went hitting my side on the corner of the table. The table had a rounded corner, or it would have been much worse. Oh, how we suffer for our art! I did finish that project the next day, a cute greeting card for a friends's new house.

I'm linking up with Off the Wall Friday.