Quilting Bee Sparta at work

The Quilting Bee Sparta continues the good work! Ten women come together once a week and make quilts for charity. It is always a lovely day with a lot of sewing, exchanging thoughts about quilting and lots of other subjects, with coffee and often homemade cookies. 

 This is one of the quilts they made. A very simple pattern, but the fabric does it all! I made the cushion with pieces of old Russian embroidery that I bought a few years ago at the big fair in Mystras. There are holes in the fabric and stains from I don't know what! But you can still cut nice pieces for patchwork. 

 

Three other quilts, ready to donate. The rag quilt is finished too at this moment. Poor Demi did mostly all of the cutting, and there were a lot of seams to be cut!! We are making a baby rag quilt at the moment, but I don't have any pictures yet. 

Dimitra is quilting a scrap quilt, another scrappy one is on the design wall. As you can see there is also a black/red cushion waiting to be made. We started to make smaller projects for our Christmas bazaar. 

Maria sew the top of the cushion and took it home to quilt it. Now I just have to find some fabric for the back. 

For the new baby rag quilt we used freezer paper. One of our flannel layers was very thin, so Maria ironed the paper on this one, drew the sewing lines on them and now Pitsa is sewing the layers together. Very concentrated,while Demi is tearing the freezer paper off again.  

 

Eleni keeps herself busy with another Christmas project, but more about that next time.