Hands 2 Help Charity Quilt Challenge 2014

I’m excited to have been able to do a quilt for Sarah Craig’s Hands 2 Help Charity Quilt Challenge this year!  I love that she provides this opportunity each year, and it feels so neat to participate in such fun.

I thought I’d try something new with this quilt and just did strips of fabric the width of the fabric. I have 10 different fabrics and each were cut about 6” wide.  It finishes at 42 1/2” x 59”.

  

Sarah gave three organizations to choose from this year, and although I would have loved to do something for all three, I ended up choosing to send my quilt to Happy Chemo again. I guess I just have a special place in my heart for people going through cancer and chemo, since my mother had to go through that.

 

  

I put yummy soft pink minky on the back, and quilted it with happy flowers all over it, with an occasional heart and butterfly here and there.

 I wrote the words “You are Loved” in one area, but it was hard to see it in a picture on the front side of the quilt, so this picture below is of the back side of the quilt, you just have to read it backwards.  :)

Thank you, Sarah, for providing this great opportunity again!!!  You are a jewel and I really appreciate you!!!

Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge 2014!

The sweet lady from one of my favorite quit blogs, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, is doing her amazing and wonderful Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge again!! Woohoo!!!  I so admire Sarah and appreciate all her efforts to organize such a fabulous service event.

Sarah has selected 3 great service opportunities to choose from and I think you’d love going to her site and seeing the wonderful opportunities! If you can work it into your schedule, we’d love to have you join us!

Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge 2013!

It’s here again!!! Woohoo!

When I began quilting again last year, I also began realizing that there were a ton of wonderful quilting blogs out there! (Who knew!)  One of the blogs I quickly fell in love with was Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  I LOVE that she is so involved with doing charity work with quilts!!! I discovered her blog just after she kicked off her Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge last year, and I KNEW I had to participate! You can go here to read about the awesome quilt I had a chance to make for the challenge last year. (That sounds a little self-serving, but once you read why it was so awesome, I think you’ll understand why I can say that! :)

Anyway, it’s that time of year again. If you want to see what it’s all about, or get involved, go to her site and read all about it.

Happy Quilting!!

A Special Quilt from Heaven – The Story

A few weeks ago when I was first learning about the Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge that Sarah Craig is doing over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict, I read about one of the charities called Happy Chemo, and I thought to myself, “I would really like to make a quilt for this project. What kind of quilt could I do?” Immediately the thought of a little plastic sack of fabric in the corner of my sewing room came to mind, and I thought, “That’s perfect!”

So, this is the story of the little plastic sack of fabric…

It held some pretty blue, yellow and green fabric, already cut into 6 1/2” squares along with some extra yardage. The layout had already been determined by my mom and each row was pinned with little papers with numbers on them.

My mom purchased this fabric several years ago and had cut it all out, done the layout, put it all in a sack, and then with all of her other projects she loved to do, she just didn’t get around to sewing it up.

My mother passed away 2 1/2 years ago, and when my siblings and I gathered together to go through her belongings and divvy it out between us, this little sack of fabric is one of the things I chose, and it has sat quietly on my shelf for the past 2 1/2 years.

The significance of this quilt is that many years before her passing, she had breast cancer. She had a mastectomy and went through a double dose of chemotherapy. The chemo was a hard go for her but she had told the doctor that she was a fighter and that she was going to beat the cancer. She definitely was a fighter and she did win.

Her amazingly positive attitude, faith and determination got her through it and she was blessed to gain another fifteen years with her family. For which we are all forever grateful!

I’m going to write a special letter to have delivered with this quilt to its recipient, sharing its story. I hope it will help her feel loved and encouraged.

(My fourth son enjoying the attention. : )

I love this quilt! It is so bright and happy!

So this quilt has two authors, me and my mom. A special quilt from Heaven. I really feel that my mom had something to do with the inspiration I received to make this quilt be the one I send to Happy Chemo. I hope it brings its recipient a lot of happiness!