Butterflies and Homework

Hello again, and welcome to the blog!
I'm still working on quilts for the Socorro Foundation (click HERE for the info and guidelines) and I managed to get another one finished.  Surprise, it's pink!  (I'm not really that much into pink.)

The pieced blocks are just 3 strips each like a rail fence.  The alternate blocks are a butterfly print.  The scraps came from my bag of 2 in. wide strips.

Check out the back!  It's a beach print.  Doesn't the beach sound good right now?  Our snow is melted here, but the cold November wind is blowing.   I got this fabric at the Vogue Fabric booth at Quilt Expo in September.  It was just the right size.
I've got one more quilt in the works for Socorro, and then I'll mail them off.  I want to get everything I'm going to mail out of here in the next couple of weeks, before Christmas makes things crazy at the post office.
So that's the butterflies.
Here's the homework.

Back when I was a school librarian, the kids at school really liked a poem by Jack Prelutsky called Homework.  The first lines were "Homework, oh, homework, I hate you, you stink!"  And that's pretty much the way they felt about it.
But not me!  I love my homework!  My homework is quilts!
Because of my babysitting schedule, I can't go to the work days my quilt guild has, so I always volunteer to do binding.  I bound these four recently, and they are ready to be distributed next week to people who need them.
Want to see?

Isn't this a pretty scrap quilt?  I would call this pattern Buckeye Beauty, but it has lots of other names.

Whoever chose the colors did a great job.

I had a terrible time taking a photo of this little quilt, sorry.

It's nice and scrappy, and will be a lovey for a child.

I made this top a while back.  I love seeing them after they're quilted by our long arm volunteers.

It's similar to a disappearing nine patch.  The volunteers chose a great backing.

The last one in the pile is this one, that I've already blogged about.

Remember this adorable pink pig flannel backing?

The ladies in my quilt guild are amazing.  Every meeting, the charity committee gets at least five donated quilts and/or tops, and often twice that.  I'm looking forward to finding out the total number we've made and donated this year.  One of the committee members has promised to send me pictures.

The best thing is, we're not the only ones!  I love seeing all the quilts people are making and donating, mentioned in blog posts.   (And, truthfully, not just donation quilts, but every other quilt or project, too!)
Stay warm this week, and keep sewing!
Cheers,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:
Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Alycia at Alycia Quilts--Finished or Not Finished Friday
Angela at So Scrappy