Quilts for Bags of Love

 Monday was a difficult day for me.  I avoided the news and the inauguration hoopla by staying in my sewing room with my old ipod turned on to favorite songs of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.  And I made a little quilt for a child going into foster care.

I used some strings from my seemingly endless basket of strings for the center strips and cut a partial charm square set diagonally.  I trimmed the result to 5 inches and arranged them.  I added two plain borders and pieced some batting left over from the Bigfoot quilt.  I used a piece of very bright fabric I didn't know what to do with for the back.

After show and tell at guild on Tuesday night, I gave this quilt and the little purple rail fence quilt to Marie to take to Bags of Love.

Today I'm going to work on some blocks of the month for guild.  Some of us are working on a BOM designed by Kristin Laura and brought those to guild for show and tell also.  Mine are on the bottom row.

The colors are a little "off" here - the top row's blocks (Diane's) have deep red accents although on my computer they look brown.  I see Marie shared my idea of using orange.  I like the black background I chose and look forward to making more of these blocks.