Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

Yesterday I decided that I wanted to quilt something up quickly – so I pulled out this little 43″ square quilt that will be donated to one of the Outreach programs at Village Squares Quilters. Actually the real reason I wanted to quilt this little quilt yesterday was when I was getting ready to quilt the “Free” Quilt I had selected one of the Rainbows from Superior thread, but when I started quilting with it I didn’t like the shine on that quilt. So I choose a different thread. I had two bobbins with this Rainbow thread on it and I wanted to put the thread and bobbins (empty) away. So, I quilted it this quilt with that tread.

This top was pieced from blocks from a Stack n’ Whack project that I started in 2005. Last year the Village Squares Quilters had a UFO exchange. I donated part of this project for that. You can see the completed quilt the member made from the blocks I donated in the exchange. Remember the quilt I made from the UFO I received? (It was doanted to the Veteran’s VSQ Project.

My plan is to use the Donation quilts that I complete between now and the QQQ Birthday party to decorate the refreshment area. I think this one turned out really nice. Almost makes me wonder why I decided to convert this project to a donation project.
Because of the boxes I thought a quilting design with gift bows would be nice.

The bows show up better on the back of the quilt.