Finished Project

This morning I finished a Yellow Brick Road quilt top I started sometime in the past.  I don't remember when it was started or where I got the fabrics.  My interest was renewed when I started volunteering with a group of ladies who are making quilts and burden bears for our anticipated new hospice house.  It is supposed to have 10 beds.

I finished the top so that I can donate it to our group.  We meet on Wednesday mornings from 9 until noon.   I first heard about the group when I took the training for hospice volunteers.  Our new hospice house was supposed to be finished this spring but there was a problem and they had to rework the plans.  Now we have heard it might be open in September.  In the meantime, we continue to make the quilts and bears.  I knew none of the ladies before I joined the group but we now consider ourselves friends.  They started their work in June 2014.  I joined in the fall.  A couple of the ladies have been spending the winter in Florida.  We have been speculating when they might return - maybe tomorrow.

Usually I tie quilt tops that someone else has sewed.  I had never tied a quilt before.  It is interesting to see how we have gravitated to the various jobs.  There are two of us who have done most of the tying.  There are two who sew the bears and quilts on the machines.  There are a couple who mostly cut the bears and the blankets the bears are wrapped in.  There is one who does most of the figuring on which blocks go together and there are those who stuff the bears.  One lady is considered the best presser.  It feels good to be doing something for others.

My husband volunteers at the hospital on Wednesday mornings.  He delivers water jugs to patients' rooms with another volunteer.  It is a small hospital with lots of volunteers working together.

Wednesday afternoon is Hubby's follow-up appointment from his hospital visit back in January.