Hand 2 Heart Finish

One of the things I wanted to do more of this year is sew up some stash fabric and make a few quilts for charity.  Last year I was not able to make any charity quilts so this year I wanted to make a point of trying some new things and sewing some of the novelty fabric I still had in my stash.

Here is "Around the World"

I had bought this panel a couple of years ago with the intention of sewing up a baby charity quilt. The fabrics that are also in here are from a quilt kit I won years ago and this is quilt number 3 from that same kit.  Here is the first one, the second one.

I kept it simple with large 3.5 in cut strips made into 4 patches and then added some red Kona to make it just a little bigger.  This is the first quilt I completely did on my Juki.

I did some FMQ on it and tried a few things out to get use to the new machine.  I like the dogwood in the four patch.  I do like them better when I kept them bigger than thin ones.

In the red area I did a square spiral.  That was a little more difficult to evenly space them going in and then coming back out.  I did mess with the tension a bit as the red thread can be seen on the back side.  It was fine when the thread was the same color.

Then in the map area I went around the big areas did spirals on the land mass and just meandered in the water.

I can tell that the FMQ on this machine is much easier and works great compared to my old one.

I used Aurfil on all of the free motion and it worked beautifully.

This quilt is going to be sent to Quilts of Compassion through Hand 2 Help.   They make and collect quilts for a wide variety of people that have suffered from the after-effects of tornadoes.  They recently had a quilt drive and distributed 1600 quilts in the Oklahoma area.
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This was also on my Q2 Goals and linking up the finish at The Littlest Thistle