Color Bars Tops for Community Service

 Last time we had a Community Service sew day it was a catch up day for PCQ members to work on charity quilts they had started earlier. Here are a couple of recently finished tops: 

Cheryl's kit had warm, happy colors. Hers is 60 x 70", a nice large throw size. 

This is Joanne's most recent; she's made several charity quilts this spring. Hers is a classic red and grey palette, 50 x 60".

She was choosing backing from the club's available selection and several of us noticed the soccer ball print in the backing cabinet. It nicely complements the red and grey palette. There's enough grey tone-on-tone to bring the print backing up to size, and red tone-on-tone for binding. Joanne has excellent color sense and she's not sure she loves the soccer balls so she may go with all tone-on-tone backing. 

Color Bars is one of the patterns we developed for kits. You can find Color Bars and the other charity quilt patterns in the Charity Pattern tab above. 

All of these were projects that were kitted up for community service sew days using fabrics from the club's stash. All the fabrics in Chery's kit came from the stash and most of the ones in Joanne's kit did too. Because the stash was short on light colors we had ordered some fabric for the light strips in multiple kits. All of the darker colors came from the bins of donated fabric in the quilting room. 

Community Service committee members will prep backings and batting and bundle them with tops for quilting. PCQ members who've signed up for time on the long arm will quilt them. Then someone from the club will bind them. We've been productive this spring and we recently delivered several quilts each to the agencies we support. There is always a need. 

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