HeartStrings Quilt Project

Brenda sent me a photo of a HeartStrings quilt and some comments about it in an email. I love how they incorporated the logo.

You can find instructions to make our Logo quilt by clicking this link.

“I attend a small church in Oklahoma City. We have a quilting group there and make quilts to donate and also quilts for some of our members. We were asked by our minster to make a quilt to give away at our Easter church service. I knew I wanted our church logo in the center of the quilt but had no idea what pattern I wanted to use. I saw a picture of your quilt in a quilt magazine and loved it. It fit into our theme and was easy enough for some of our beginners to make. Long story short, we made the quilt and it turned out wonderful. Not only was the pattern a heart, our church logo has a heart in the center and the quilting was done in a heart pattern. Thank you so much for your inspiration and willingness to share the pattern.”

Your Sister in Christ, Brenda Jacobs Bethany Church of Christ In Stitches for Christ Quilts

Join us in Fremont Nebraska for a two day sew-in — Friday May 13th from 12pm to 5:30pm and Saturday from 9:30am till 5:30pm. Friday we will be tying tops for the local homeless shelter. Saturday we will be working on Quilts of Valor for Nebraska.

Comment on this post or email me at mmcjohnson@gmail for more information.

The Peace by Piece quilters tying a HeartStrings quilt at a recent gathering.

Instructions for tying a HeartStrings quilt

Our Lime Green project has come to an end. If you pieced a top or blocks according to the guidelines that you’d like to send in for completion, please comment and I’ll forward the mailing addresses on to you.

I’d like to share one of the tops I received from Karen during the project that is now completed and ready for donation. As you can see, she chose a very coordinated look by using a limited number of fabrics and it works well.

I’m working on Lime centered blocks for our project this month…and so is Alycia, are you? Our project ends March 31 but even if you can’t make a whole set, you make a few blocks and send them in for group quilts.

See the guidelines for the blocks.

Roaming around the HeartStrings blog ring today, I found a post with some photos of quilts sent by Sue to be donated to veteran’s so I thought I’d share one here and let you visit the Joy’s site to see more.

Just a reminder that we will be having another sew in at the Grange.

Details:

Saturday, March 19
Time: 9:00 to 5:00
Place: Jeremiah Smith Grange
1 Lee Hook Road
Lee, NH

Lunch: Sandwiches and Soup

Everyone is welcome to attend and work on your own charity projects, or use the time to work on your own personal projects

Click here for details of our special project for February/March 2011

LuAnn made this HeartStrings Logo quilt in RED for February – See the EQ layout on her blog.

And if you want more inspiration for your RED strings,  look at Cindy’s Pink/Red top.

Teresa is a member of HeartStrings who recently lost her son. In his memory and with the help of other quilters including HeartStrings, she just made a donation of quilts in his name.

See the video/read the story