Bushfire Donations

Ok, here's what I'm sending to Australia for the Bushfire Quilt Project:


Its not much, but every little bit helps. The directions to those blocks are over on Quiltville.com and they are called Maverick Stars. I'm also sending 4 separate rolls of quilt binding. I know the project needs other items as well, like fabric backing, thread and quilt batting. Maybe some friends in Korea will want to send non-sewn goods to the cause.... after all, you'll be mailing to an APO, not necessarily a Australian address.

Anyway, my items are hoppin in the mail today. I hope you have a lovely morning! ~jen~

Bushfire Donations

Bushfire Quilts

With all that's going on in Australia, another military spouse has started an effort to collect quilt blocks for those affected in the fires. You probably know her, Tia at CampFollowerBags. In fact, her work is amazing and I'd guess her work has inspired many a Military Uniform Recycler- myself included. I know there are a few ladies in Australia in the 2009 Spring Quilt Block Swap and I do hope that you are all safe and well. I'm going to do my part to donate a block or two & hopefully some binding strips to the cause. Thanks for organizing the blog-quilt effort! Click on the image to find out more.

Edited to add: You can see my blocks and the many many many others over in the flickr group created for this project.

~jen~

Bushfire Quilts

Quilts for Charity

As it turns out, there is no local Project Linus chapter in my area. In fact, after asking my guild, they said that they've not found too many places to drop off charity quilts- in the immediate driving area.

I was researching where I might be able to mail my quilted donations and - Thanks to the blog, though, I was contacted by the people at Kidz Quiltz.

"Kidz Quiltz pledges to provide quilts to children around the world who are in need due to circumstances beyond their control. We believe every child should have his or her own quilt. Due to poverty and natural disasters, children world-wide are left to face the elements on a daily basis. We have made it our goal to help them stay warm and to show them we care by wrapping them in quilts." -from their About Me section

They have the mailing address listed on their site and it truly looks like a good place to start sharing some of the quilts from the studio.

I just thought I'd share the info I've found.

Quilts for Charity

Project Linus-

A couple years back we, the family, did a few Project Linus quilts all together. It was really fun to work on them as a family. This year, 2008, we did it again. The hubby did all the cutting, helped arrange and did the pinning. The kids helped with the arranging of the "puzzle pieces" and I did the sewing.
The first thing I did was sort out a stack of misshaped pieces. This is a total de-stash quilt. I then instructed the hubby to use his brilliant math skills to cut as many, larger pieces out of the odd shapes- as long as they were multiples of 3". So (without the seam allowances) 3 x 3 or 3 x 9 or 6x6 or 12 x 12- You see, this way, they'd all go back together in the end.

To my surprise, we didn't have that many stray pieces left over from the cutting process. The trick it to cut the largest piece you can- 12x12, so that in the end, if you need to cut it down- you can.

He looks like he's done with pictures, right? Evidentially I'm messing with his creative chi. hee hee. I did manage to snap one more though, when he wasn't looking. =)

And I quilted the small quilt myself on the Elna 3007. I did the free motion, with large meandering. The quilt is also machine bound.


The sweet kiddo not pictured in the arranging, is holding the quilt. {technically, still not pictured.} whoops.

My dad has affectionately dubbed this Oklahoma from the Sky, in winter. I suppose that is what most of the farmland must look like right now.

Since the quilt has big chunky pieces and I did have an expert team passing me fabric pieces "These two go together mom... no no, like this." It was finished in a weekend. I definitely should quilt more, with the family, de-stashing, for charity in 2009. It was very fun- and I think they enjoyed it, too.

Project Linus-