QUILTsocial Issue 4 | Page 18

a quick Summer Quilting Project Gail Berry-Graham Using pre-cut layer cakes makes for a quicker project One night my husband came home and asked if he remembered to tell me he had volunteered us to make a quilt for the secretary from our church who was retiring? My answer was “No honey, I’m pretty sure you didn’t tell me that. No problem though, when do you need it done by?” His answer? Are you sitting down? “Two weeks!” Not necessarily something to panic about IF we weren’t going away for a week and if I wasn’t working the next week. I needed a Quick Summer Quilting Project and I needed it now, there would be no better time to put my new PFAFF Quilt Ambition 2.0 sewing machine to the test. We were going to piece a quilt in the next two days, while on vacation, so it not only needed to be quick I needed to be able to easily pack everything I needed to take with me. We were driving to this vacation destination so that made it a bit easi \