Flash of RWB: A Flimsy

The second of the planned wheelchair lap quilts is finished. The photo is a little dark, but I think if you click on it, you'll be able to see how it really looks.

For this one I used many of my red and blue CW pieces, but there are still some left.

As for the white, back when Judy and I belonged to The Other Guild, one night we came to the meeting and found fabric everywhere. Apparently a long-time member had passed away and her stash came to the guild. The quilting cottons had already been consumed by the vultures other members, but there was this big three-yard piece of heavier weight white, almost like duck or twill. I claimed it, thinking that somewhere there would be a use for it. The string blocks are pieced on a muslin foundation, and the combined weight is similar to the white, so I went ahead and used it.

Today I began work on lap quilt number three. Needing a break from the Civil War, I'm working with the scraps from the African quilt I made for our church to raffle in the fight against malaria. Some of the fabrics came from Wanda; she liked the idea of raising money to eradicate malaria. I bet she'll also like the idea of lap quilts for wheelchair-bound Veterans.