I sew with a small group at our church. We quilt mostly the lap quilt size for Hospice and Project Linus. We have been given 13 full size quilt tops which we will tie and bind. Those will go to hospice home-bound patients and the local fire departments for those who are burned out. We are grateful to have them because it will help so many and save us many hours. The tops were just sitting in a storage unit and the relative wanted to clear things out.
We have donated almost 100 lap quilts to hospice and 30 pillowcases to the 1M pillowcase challenge, not counting the quilts we have gifted our shut-ins, new mommies, and the 12 lap-quilts and 3 queen quilts we have made for our fund-raisers. We spent 3 months sewing all kinds of pot holders, hot mits, etc for our fund raisers and sponsored our youth who made 25 lap quilts for Hospice. Our youth made large woven fabric floor pillows for Bible School. We have spent less than $300. on supplies (mostly batting and polyfil) because all those fabrics were donated.
We will be able to quilt another 1-2 years with the fabrics we have been given. Some fabrics we would not have chosen for ourselves, but the youth opened our eyes to how great the unusual combinations can be. We learned so much from them!
I am really learning to love the scrappy quilts. Had to get over the fear of something not matching. Again, learned a lot from the youth.