Some of our Past Community Quilts

This was our first group quilt, and led to our name, The Cut Loose Quilters. Each person was asked to bring some of their scrap fabrics that were left over from past quilt making. I led this quilt making so when they arrived, they set up their sewing machines around the table, then I put all the scraps in a pile in the middle of the table, and gave them a good shuffle. They were then asked to take a scrap, and without color matching pick another scrap and sew the two together in no particular shape. They were asked to continue sewing strips onto strips around in a block formation until when the fabric was squared off they could make a 10 inch square.
We then sewed the squares together. This was quite a challenge for many of our more "seasoned" quilters as they wanted desperately to sort the fabric into piles of likeness. I would let them entertain themselves with this activity and then come up and give the pile a good shuffle again! Lots of protests and laughter was experienced during the making of this quilt but much to some "speculation" they were very surprised at the end result, which they all like very much. This quilt was auctioned for a fund raiser in our community and raised a nice little sum.