Pulse Charity Drive Update & A Finish

If you've followed my Instagram feed you'll notice that 90% of my posts since June have all been related to Pulse quilts. It's not that I haven't done other things but that has definitely been the priority right now.

Curious as to how it's going? Well, prepare to be blown away. It's amazing the generosity of so many quilters around the world. So far the Orlando guild is in possession of about 250+ finished quilts and that doesn't include the 150 that are in the works and the many individual heart blocks that are arriving every day.

Alissa, the Orlando Modern Quilt Guild president, with all of the quilts so far.

All the members in my guild also deserve a shout-out. A super efficient system was put into place in order to get these quilts done. It goes something like this:

• Blocks arrive in the mail and a few members pick them up and make them into kits - some with 15 heart blocks, others with 30.
• Other members piece the blocks into tops and then return those.
• These tops are then put into quilting kits, with appropriate sized batting and backings for other members to quilt
• Quilted tops are then divvied up to those members who offered to bind quilts. 

This doesn't include all the members who have sewn together backings, made bindings, sewn together batting scraps, etc. It's just amazing what's been accomplished over the last 6 weeks.

My contribution to the group effort has been a few different jobs. I pieced together a few backings, pieced 30 heart blocks into a top, quilted a 2nd top, and put the bindings on half a dozen others.

3 quilts that I helped finish.

Of course I have to include the finished quilt that I made. It was my top priority on my Q3 Finish Along list and I was super excited to be able to quilt it on a long arm machine too.

Don't you just love a happy little quilt pile? :)