Last Flimsy of the Year

It's been more than a month since I have crossed the threshold of the sewing room for anything other than hiding a few Christmas gifts so today I picked up a project that has been languishing since the fall and - surprise, surprise - I finished up a flimsy.

Jan, one of the quilters at the church, put together a centre panel for a Quilts for Survivors project back in the fall and wanted someone else to finish it up. 

Full disclosure: I'm not much of a grey person when it comes to quilts so it took a little imaging for me, though I do like the prints in this bundle. Things have been very hectic for the last few months so it sat on/near the cutting table, and that's as far as it got. No chance of it getting included in the quilt shipment that we made in October.

I was puttering around downstairs yesterday and decided it really didn't need that much more work so I gave it a second look. Jan had sent a piece of peach with a slight cross hatch in it home with me, thinking that it would do for the border but on its own it just didn't carry enough weight. It needed something else. So I landed on a 1" strip of peach and then a wide grey border that I uncovered in our stash at the church (from a sheet).

I had both a fitted and flat sheet to work with so I cut the fitted one up first and thinking that the backing could be made from the flat sheet. Despite being new, there were several stains on the sheet that I was working with - maybe wax? - so it took me longer to cut the borders than I had planned.

The finished product is lovely, if I do say so myself. That little bit of peach adds just that extra bit of life that it needed and it's almost as though the grey was made for it! Not sure if I will use it as a backing too because it's a little stiff, but maybe if it gets machine quilted it would work. I'll see what the gals think.

If I am correct, this is the fourth quilt/flimsy for our 2026 shipment, all thanks to Jan getting things started....M