Sewing on a Friday!

I had a nice sewing day yesterday.  Some sewing with friends, some on my own.

My friends and I were together to make a baby quilt for the one young mother-to-be.  Mrs. Nakazawa and I had worked on this a couple of weeks ago when the other two ladies couldn't make it.  The original plan was that the four of us would hand piece three blocks each, put them all together on another day, add borders and pass the whole thing around for hand quilting.  But with the two ladies absent that first week, Mrs. Nakzawa and I opted for machine piecing and had the center finished and waiting.  Yesterday we all made Prairie Points and added an outer border.  The quilting pattern will be drawn on this week and we will sandwich the quilt at the next gathering and then hand quilt as originally planned.

 Here are Rumi-san's finished Loves Me quilts.

And here again is Mrs. Nakzawa's quilt.  Aren't these interesting quilts in different color schemes?  That is something I like about making the same quilt with friends.  The different colors really shows the person's personality whereas you'd think a quilt pattern is a quilt pattern.

And for my own sewing, I put together all the leaf blocks on the Turning Leaves quilt.  This is what I'm working on for the hospital's autumn quilt.  Most of those blocks were made from Mrs. Furui's stash and buttonhole appliqued by some volunteers at the hospital.  I just laid out the 9 large blocks here on the floor (four leaves to one large block), but they will actually have dark lattice between the blocks.  And I have to think about a border too...  Pretty, pretty leaves!