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Little Quilts

Our group is working on a Little Quilts project in February and March. Making small quilts and wrapping dolls and stuffed animals in them to donate to children in need.

Some of us got an early start. Nancy is using orphan blocks as the base for many of her quilts.

I tend to use leftover fabric after making a larger donation quilt for mine.

Pair them up with a cute little stuffed animal like this monkey and who wouldn’t want to cuddle up with them?!

If you’re interested in participating we’re asking that the little quilts be about 22 – 24 inches but not more than 30 inches. Many of mine are rectangular so something like 22 or 24 x 26 or 28 would work.

My Mom makes hers 24 inches square starting with a square of novelty fabric and then adding borders.

We will accept tops and quilt and bind them, or finished quilts. You can email me for more details or for an address to mail the little quilts at mmcjohnson@gmail.com

We will provide the stuffed animals.

You can see some more examples on my website at this link.

Leftovers

Stephanie has inspired me to pull out a bin with leftover strips from Jelly Rolls and make a scrappy 16 patch.

She did her blocks as leaders and enders while working on other projects. Doesn’t it look great??

I’m going to pair my leftover strips with various grays.

Group quilts

Please note that effective immediately, we are requesting that you do not send blocks or tops to Sue Frank if you have done so in the past. She is currently not able to accept them.

In addition, we have some changes to our guidelines for group quilts.

In the past, we accepted any number of blocks with red or blue centers….as of now, we will only accept complete sets of blocks – that means 24 or 48 blocks that work together and can be assembled into a single quilt, or completed HeartStrings tops ready for quilting and donating. And you can use any color centers for your set of blocks that you’d like.

If you have a complete set of HeartStrings blocks or a HeartStrings top that you’ll like to send in please contact Contact Mary Johnson via email at mmcjohnson@gmail.com


Of course, many of us make our quilts from start to finish and donate locally and that does not change.