HeartString Quilts 1st Charity Sew-In

What a great day!

We had a very successful first  Charity Sew-In today!

My friend Kathy and I have been talking about doing this for some time

and today we finally DID IT!

Kathy arrived at my house with a TON of fabric

and started right away started making Kits!

Kathy is known as the Kit Queen......today she EARNED the title!

My daughter Jenny and granddaughter Mia came to help,

along with Berta and her daughter Mo, Sharon, Cheryl,

Sally, Joanne, Katrina, and Lindsay.

We had a kit making station, sewing station, ironing station,

longarm station and design station

and finished 3 quilt tops, almost finished a fourth,

quilted one top and MADE 32 KITS complete with backing!

Berta worked on this top for Camp Reach for the Stars.

Monique worked on sorting 5 " squares.

Cheryl, Berta and Sharon put the pedal to the metal

 and made those sewing machines HUM!

Jenny and Kathy and Sally (not pictured here)

worked on cutting 1 yard pieces of fabric,

color coordinating that fabric, choosing an appropriate pattern and

combining them into beautiful kits!

Monique (and Lindsay not pictured here)

took a turn at longarming.

and of course had her turn working with Mia!

Joanne matching up squares

and sewing them all together.

Quilting all finished on this one.

3 finished quilt tops ready for backs and quilting.

32 QUILT KITS!!!!

We really did have a fun day.

Some of us took a couple of kits home so we can

sew them and bring them back to be quilted and ultimately

donated to Project Linus.

So if you are reading  this and live in the Phoenix area,

come on by and pick up a quilt kit to sew and donate!

God Bless!

tammy