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I am declaring 2012 as My Year to Give!
Each month I will post a free pattern which everyone can use to make charity quilts. During that month I personally will try to make at least ONE quilt using that pattern for one of the charities that I have on my personal charity list. At the end of the month/beginning of the next month, I will report on my progress.
Everyone is encouraged to join me if they wish to help those in need. Below is a small logo which you may post on your blog or Facebook page to show the www that you have dedicated the year to giving. Copy and paste the code where you want it to show.
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I have the whole year of special projects lined up, please check back!
The newest one will always be on top, so scroll down to see what I've finished.
May's project will be Sailing Ships. This is an old
BOM of mine which I thought would make a few great charity quilts. I've updated the web page and added a few helpful finishing
directions, along with a few lay out suggestions. Click on my Sailing Ships sample to get to the pattern page.
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April's project was a very simple block which turns into an elegant quilt. The World's Fair block is time consuming though, a lot of four-patches to be made to make a quilt. I finished the one on the left in April, but still have #2 below to be quilted.
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I did some actual quilting and finishing in April, tying to catch up with my UFOs. I finished the World's Fair sample above left, one of my Baby 3D Bow Tie quilts, the second Jacob's Ladder quilt, and another sample I can't show yet. It's nice to get some quilts all the way finished!
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The March charity projects were a new version of the Three Dimensional Bowties. The block is made the same as the 3D Bowtie, but folding the “knot” edges gives the quilt a totally different look.
Directions for the Three Dimensional Bowtie block and the finishing directions to get this new look can be found by clicking on the quilt.
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I also made two samples of the April project, and one for May's project too. So I'm ahead in the samples, just behind in the quilting.
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In February made two Jacob's Ladder quilts, and finished a bunch of UFOs which were donated to me by a friend. From that UFO box I made six quilts for charity and two fundraising quilts to help make even more.
Click on the quilt to get to the Jacob's Ladder BOM page.
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I made three kids size 9 patch quilts and two kids size pioneer braid quilts which were donated to charity.
Then I tackled what my friend called Bricks and Blocks, all I had to do was sew it all together. This is a queen size quilt and I'll probably sell it for quilting money so I can start getting some of the quilts finished.
Visiting kitty Mufasa seems to prefer scrap quilts and always does a thorough inspection of each one. |
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Also in that UFO box were swap blocks from several different swaps that all happened to be the same size, so they went in another charity quilt. |
Next in the box was this huge pile of triangle squares which called to me. I sewed them all together into pinwheel blocks and then another queen size quilt (maybe even king if I add borders) I think it will be sold too, more quilting money for more charity quilts!
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