A New Charity Quilt Pattern

New year, new officers and committee chairs for PCQ. The new Community Service Committee co-chairs are planning sew days, and we'll have some patterns available for the quilters if they choose to use one of them. The sew days are open to anyone in the club and they're welcome to work on a pattern of their own if they like, as long as the quilt will be for one of the charities we support. 

This year we will not be making up kits as we have in the past, but we do have a vast stash of fabric. We also have bins of 2-1/2" strips, so patterns using the stash and the strips are encouraged. To that end, one of the co-chairs wants to make Irish Chain quilts in a small size for Hospice. She and I talked about the fabrics we have available, and came up with an idea. Both of us worked on making the sample for our sew day on January18th. 

Irish Chain Variation, 42" square

I've drafted the pattern, but I've since learned that it needs an edit. Eventually the pattern will be added to the Charity Patterns tab above. 

We held the sew day this past Saturday, and we had a good turnout. Several people chose fabrics from our stash and 2-1/2" strips and started working on their own versions. I think they liked having the opportunity to choose their own fabrics.  

Linking up with Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts