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Old 02-16-2014, 05:49 AM
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sassysews2
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Our guild has an instruction sheet we hand out for our Block of the Month project which is for our charity quilts. Each month on workday one member presents a completed block, instructions, and enough fabric pre-cut to complete the quilt to be donated. Can be a baby, disaster, military, nursing home, where ever the need is at that time. The members work on it that day with the goal of completing one or more pieced tops. Our instruction sheet is provided to each member with dimensions for each type of quilt, suggestions of fabric to be used, seam size, basic instructions for matching seams, pressing, points, etc. The members are pretty good, some better than others, at following the instruction sheet. We are reminded to check our 1/4" seams, press our blocks, try to match points, follow lay out instruction and all the basic quilting guidelines. No one gets their feelings hurt as we know we all will lapse sometimes. Our charity quilts and the ones we sell at craft fairs are the best we can do, not show quality but service quality and are interchangeable. We may pull from the craft boxes to provide quilts for charity as needed. We, too, put our club name on them and remind members the quality of the quilt reflects the quality of the club & we have a very good reputation for the quilts we make. This system works very well for us & someone is always asking for a Block of the Month instruction sheet as they get torn, worn, used, & misplaced so we keep a good supply of them & encourage everyone to check their sheets. If this is a club I suggest someone make a motion to make such a instruction sheet up, most quilters would welcome it.
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