Our Little Quilt project is finished and I want to thank all of you who participated by sending little quilts or little tops. We’ll be working on finishing up the tops and all of them will be paired with critters and donated.
These were the last ones to arrive this past week. Click on a photo to see a larger view and you can scroll through them all.
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.
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.
Aren’t these super cute?!?! Dawn has made and shared a video on her process for making these little quilts. You can find it at this link. While you’re there, take some time to look at her other videos too. She shares lots of great information in them.
And after viewing her video, You can find more about our Little Quilt project at this link.
We’ve been busy!
Look at all the cute little quilts Ann made. She sent them to Nancy who has already paired them up with critters ready for donation.
I finished a couple little ones.
And Jeannie sent in these two cute little quilts.
If you’d like to participate in the Little Quilt Project please see the previous post at this link.
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.
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.
The Maine sew-in is underway and Bev has been at it again … look at these two Rail Fence tops.
Green strips
Blue strips
Bev has used strips of the same width but you can also make these Rail Fence quilts from leftover strips and strings.
Look at this great layout Carolyn came up with for our Rainbow HeartStrings blocks!
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.
