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What I did this summer

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I spent most of the summer working on charity quilts.  It was a very hot summer here and there was a limited amount of time I could spend outside.  I worked on my quilting skills.  I had not made a quilt using the log cabin pattern before; I decided to try it. I was really encouraged; it was a lot of fun, and relatively easy.  I decided to make another. This one used blue and some really wild red. Let's do another. This one used green and gold. The centers on this one were from some fabric that had pictures of bears.  This time all the blocks were aligned the same.  I had almost enough material to make them all the same, but not quite. I did one more log cabin - this time on point. The centers of this one are printed redwork that I cut from some interesting fabric.  The outside log on the center six included a row of lighter color to define the blocks. I made several more quilts.  All will be donation quilts to the Covers for Kids program. Notice the pictures are getting