Group Quilt

A small group of my quilting friends (we call ourselves the Sew 'n Sews) like to work together on a group project to donate to the Mennonite Relief Sale. Our last quilt Whirlygig donated in 2017 raised $700 and we were thrilled to contribute our quilty efforts to this worthy cause.

2020 group quilt blocks

Since then we have been a little distracted or lazy or perhaps unorganized, but we decided to focus on finishing one of our projects for this year's auction. These were the blocks on my design wall. Two of them got voted off the project... one measured too small, and the yoyo tree block was deemed to be drawing too much attention to itself! "Look at me, look at me, I'm not like the others"!

After much discussion (which I find stressful but other people find enjoyable!) this was the final block layout with black sashing strips added.
Then there was (too) much lengthy discussion about borders, which was peppered with intense discussions about an upcoming family wedding, and health concerns of various family members, plus a very active puppy desperately trying to "help" us! It was exhausting to keep the focus on finishing the quilt!


This was the scrappy border that we finally decided on and I think it looks terrific! 

This is my favourite photo that shows some group members moving blocks around. Once the order of the border sections was decided on, the sections were passed to the sewers, and somehow the whole thing magically came together. 
Except the corner blocks. 
There was much debate about those, and eventually I brought the quilt home, made the blocks I like and now the quilt is at the hand quilters! 
Linking up to Small Quilts and Oh Scrap!