Patriotic Quilt

Donated this quilt to Piecemakers Guild. 

They are doing a drive to collect quilts for Female Soldiers: Forgotten Heroes. It is "Connecticut’s first and only community-based transitional home exclusively for homeless female Veterans and their young children. Housed at the Nicholas A. Madaras Home, FS:FH provides ten beds for female Veterans and five beds, when available, for their young children. The PFC Nicholas A. Madaras Home is named in tribute to a young soldier from Wilton, CT."

When I heard about this drive went in hunt of patriotic fabric in my stash. What I found was 17 Heartstring blocks and all the precut strings to make the 31 blocks to make a quilt set 6x8. Perfect! Another UFO now finished and warming someone deserving instead.

Ann's Place

This week I was pleased to be able to make a small donation to Ann's Place for their Festival of Trees fundraising weekend. Their mission is to "provide help and hope to individuals and their loved ones living with cancer with a host of free professional services aimed at improving quality of life during and after cancer."  

Lap sized Christmas quit. Kit from Christie's Quilting Boutique. 

I made about 40 key fobs.

Quilt tops to charity

The wonderful donation of fabrics that we received has slowly been turning into quilt tops. Five more tops are finished and along with backs and bindings were mailed to Sarah Craig at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.   That makes 14 quilt tops so far. I'd say I'm almost half way thru the fabric.

I'm so disappointed by the terrible pictures but we have had non stop rain for weeks so these pics were taken one day when it finally stopped raining but we were totally in the shade.

17 H2H quilts

Sarah, over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict, is running her annual Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge. I decided to take on the challenge again and got a few of the ladies in my Wednesday quilting group, Quilters with Heart, to join me. We got some of our quilt tops finished for Emily's Quilty Hugs, and also made some tops for Victoria's Quilts Canada.

For Emily:
Some of these tops have been waiting for their turn on the long arm for years!

At least ten years waiting to be quilted.

This was a new project.

This was also about ten years waiting it's turn on the long arm.

This quilt top was made many years ago by one of our friends who has since moved into an assisted living home and we miss her very much.

These next four quilts I made (and yes the blue one has been quilted and bound since the picture) and the other ladies in our group bound them for me.

For Victoria's Quilts Canada: 

We received a donation of four large tubs of beautiful fabric. What a blessing but where to put it all? We saw Sarah's challenge as an opportunity to quickly stitch up some quilt tops, use some of this donated fabric but not add to the huge pile of tops waiting to be quilted.

The first thing we did with the donated fabric was make color piles and then color groupings. Then we cut the first few groupings into tumblers on the GO. The next couple of groupings became 2.5" strips. There are many many more quilt tops to be made but below are the completed tops so far.

These last five I had cut and prepped ahead of time and then sewed up over a rainy weekend.

Thank you to Sarah for the challenge and motivation to get these 17 quilts and tops finished and out my door. It's been fun. Please check out the other wonderful quilts made for these worthy causes.

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