Maples Leaves and Binding by the Pound

Sandy showed up last week with a lovely little bundle for Quilts for Survivors which included these gorgeous maple leaf blocks. She's right on time because, despite what the calendar is saying, we've already seen a few maple trees beginning to turn.

They are done up in a variety of fall fabrics but she just couldn't figure out what she wanted to do with them, in part because she just couldn't get past the little bit of metallic ink that runs through them, so they have been passed along to Betty to work a little magic.

It's the same block that Roberta and I played with last fall - Crystal Manning's Pumpkin Spice Maples - but she's only used two colours/block. Clever girl.

Don't they make you want to start pulling out your sweaters?

And she also brought a huge bag filled with a variety of bias bindings, all neatly prepped and labelled. There are nine in total ranging from 47 to 101 feet in length, for a grand total of 591 feet! That's a LOT of work.

According to my math, that's about 16 metres of binding per metre of fabric.

I couldn't get over how much they weighed so when we got home I put the bag on the kitchen scale; it's over 3.5 pounds!

This is my fave.

The crew at Quilts for Survivors will be thrilled as they are always on the lookout for binding that is ready to go. As a reminder, if you would like to send QFS prepped bindings they are looking to have them cut 2.5", on the bias...M