The Fergus Falls QOV group met Friday May 14 just one week after returning home. Stories were shared and hearts touched.
For those of you that don’t know the process that our quilts go threw I will give you a short run down. This is the journey of a typical QOV quilt.
Someone will choose a pattern, fabric to make it and then they will cut out the quilt top. The pieces that she has cut will go into a zip lock bag along with the pattern, a label to be signed by the person that sews the top, fabric to sew a pillow case and the pattern needed. These kits are placed on a table, people stop in and pick up these kits to take home to sew or they can spend some time with us sewing. When completed the tops and pillow cases are returned to be packaged once more. This time the batting and backing fabric will be added and they will be placed into a larger bag. Our volunteer machine quilters then take the tops to be quilted, they sign the label and return the package. They are then trimmed, the binding is machine sewn on the front of the quilt along with the label and then the binding is sewn to the back of the quilt by hand. When the quilt is all done they are folded and placed into the pillowcase that goes with the quilt. At this point the handwritten card is added. 10 quilts are placed into large clear bags, they are now ready to be sent for distribution. Lots of hands touch one quilt!
Following are a few pictures of our workday and also just a few of the quilts that were finished on Friday.
Thanks for your interest!
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