Quilts for Kids

Quilts for Kids is a non-profit organization who supplies quilts to hospitals for sick children.  Its a nationwide group, with local chapters, that serves as a clearing house for donated quilts.  Upon request, they will send you fabric and a pattern for making a quilt.  You need to provide the batting and agree to return the quilt within a few weeks.

The three quilts pictured above are some that I made from the kit that they sent me earlier this year.  I just got an email from the organization, asking for quilts for the holidays.  I started looking through my stash of fabric, especially holiday prints, and plan to ship a few quilts to them right after Thanksgiving. 

Follow this link quiltsforkids.org to request a kit or get guidelines for making quilts from your own fabric.

Welcome!

My first blog.  Welcome all of you who stumble upon my little site on the net.  After much deliberation, I decided to share what I do to anyone who is interested.  The old store you see above (circa 1920) is my former quilt shop and now my studio/storage unit.  I try to work there every day, at least for a few hours.  I quilt, sew, knit, paint, and move things around a lot.

Today I'm showing you what I did yesterday.  It's the first, so the composition is not quite successful, but I did it in one afternoon, just to see how it would look.  I plan on framing it in a shadow-box frame.  The frame size is 11 by 14, so I made the little quilt 10.5 by 13.5.  The flowers are needle-felted and beaded, very three dimensional.  I'm lucky enough to have a needle-felting machine (Janome) which really makes it easy and quick to do these flowers.  The blue ones are quite small, so I had to use my long tweezers to hold the edge as I felted them.  I hope to have more time to work on a similar quilt in the next few days and will post it here.
 
I also do long arm quilting for a few other people, so most of the rest of my week will be working on a queen size for someone else and getting a few fall plants in the ground.
My current plan is to post about twice a week and share some of my patterns with you. 
Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful fall day.