Peace by Piece Quilters

Nancy and her Peace by Piece quilters have been super busy since they began the participating in the Little Quilt and Critter project. Donating hundreds!

They donate them to police and sheriffs in Connecticut and Nancy was just interviewed by a local news station. Take a look at the video by clicking this link.

As you’ll see, they’ve also donated many quilts over the years including HeartStrings ones. It’s been a blessing to have Nancy as a part of our group over the years.

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Stephanie is making a good start … 3 HeartStrings UFOs finished already and all of them gorgeous!

Click on the first one and scroll to see a larger view of each of them.

We’re also continuing to work on the boxes of tops sent to us by Valerie in Maine. Looking at the photo album, 75 photos had been uploaded in 2025 … and two more finishes so far this year. Some of these are getting additional borders to make them a little larger others are being finished as is.

One finished by Kat …

And one finished by me.

There will be lots more of these finished and donated in the months to come … we don’t have photos of them all but I appreciate everyone who volunteered to help with them.

Bigger quilts

So we are still working on our larger quilts for donation even though we had fun with the Little Quilt Project. It’s also FUN to use up those leftovers.

Kathleen made this HeartStrings quilt.

Stephanie made this cute heart quilt mostly from leftover binding bits!

This is one of my Rail Fence quilts just finished made from leftover strips and strings.

And of course … Happy Blocks are always a favorite. This is one of the 3 fabric versions but they’re great for leftover novelty fabrics too!

Donations

Thanks again for your participation in our Little Quilts Project in February/March.

Nancy, Kat, and I have been working to finish tops that were sent in and to pair little quilts with critters.

I wanted to share with you just a few of them all wrapped up and ready to donate.

There are still more and we will get those done and donated too in the coming months.

More little Quilts

The little quilts and tops keep coming in! We’ve had a really nice response to our project and lots of kids will have critters wrapped up in these to cuddle in difficult times. That makes my heart happy!

Click on a photo below to see a larger view and to scroll through the slide show.

Our project is coming to an end so if you have little tops or quilts to send in please get them mailed in the next 2-3 weeks. I will be sharing these with Nancy and Kat who are both have locations set up for donation.

Little Quilts received

Please don’t mind the quality of these photos … I had a bunch of packages waiting for me when I got home from Virginia and I wanted to open them and snap some quick photos and make notes about who sent them.

Some are finished quilts and some are tops that will be finished by one of our HeartStrings members. They’ll all be paired up with some cute critters and donated to kids in need.

Thanks so much much to all who have participated and our project continues through the end of March.

EDIT – March 22

The little quilts and tops continue to come in and I have added them to the photo gallery

Click on the first photo and you can see larger views of all the photos.