After I've spent many hours and days peeling or cutting away the paper from fabric samples I sort the pieces according to width and then stitch them up in columns 80-90 inches long and then sew the columns together. I take no serious thought to color combinations or technique because I've been told to make these ugly. Apparently pretty quilts disappear at the receiving areas into the black market or something; only the homely quilts make it to the needy. These make very sturdy and sometimes stiff quilts but as they may be used as sunshades or groundcovers rather than body coverings that's fine.

Later when I get to work with the cotton samples that are finer fabrics I'll make planned, pretty quilts but those will stay in the States for moneyraisers here. The ladies who finish up the Mission quilts still need to buy thread, needles, sometimes batts and so forth so the pretty moneyraisers help them with this.

Since I'm terminally broke even when the economy is good this is my major charitable arena.