a quilter’s journey
Posted in Charity, Why I'm not working on... on Mar 25th, 2009
…my 3rd chemo. The first one was hard on me. The second was a “piece of cake”, but the third is getting into me again. Seems my body doesn’t bounce back as easily anymore. New is that the last digit of my fingers hurt, not only the nails. It’s hard to pick up small items, [...]
Posted in Art Quilts, Charity on Mar 8th, 2008
4 Elements, 28″ x 28″ In 2007, a group of quilters organized a connection to the Fabric of Life organization. During a CQA meeting, we had the opportunity to buy hand-dyed fabric from Mali/Africa. This quilt is my contribution for the fundraiser auction for Fabric of Life, soon to be held (more info on this a.s.a.p.). [...]
In cleaning up my sewing studio, I regularly find “Orphan Blocks”, usually test blocks or sometimes people give me leftover blocks “you’ll make something great out of it”,, Yeah, well. Curse or blessing? If it becomes a charity quilt, definitely a blessing! Ten orphan blocks with pink centers (I don’t even like pink) mixed up [...]
Posted in Charity on Jan 21st, 2008
Block Party Quilters are very passionate in support of the children at our local Ronald McDonald House. Over the course of 20 years, we made thousands of quilts, and still going. In 2007 alone, 480 quilts where delivered to the facility. Despite a busy year, I managed to make 6 quilts. One of the quilts [...]