Meet Bernie--A cotton tale

Please meet my good friend, Bernie.  I recently realized that she and I have been working together for about 20 years.  While we have done a fair amount of modest garment sewing, the thing we most love to do together is make quilts, and she and I are keeping quite busy with projects recently.

A few months ago, I joined a group of quilters at a nearby church that we have since begun attending.  The group has actually been around for a good number of years, and along the way, ladies have left partiality completed projects or donated fabric to the group.  The stash of UFO (unfinished objects) and fabrics is beginning to overwhelm the supply cabinets, so the group is focusing on finishing up some of these projects.  The quilts then go to seriously or terminally ill members of the congregation.  Bernie and I are having great fun working with these ladies.

Here is the current UFO I am working on at home.   

We also make flannel baby blankets for the local crisis pregnancy center and work on personal projects.  Since several of the ladies are new to quilting, we will also pick a block pattern that we will each make using some of the stash fabric. Those of us who have been quilting for a while can then help teach those who are less experienced.  Those blocks are then put together in a quilt. 

Good work, good fun, good fellowship--Bernie and I are smiling together.