They wonderful ladies at FabFanatic have decided to coordinate some charity quilts being made in conjunction with our quilt along! They are going to auction them off to benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand, an organization that fights childhood cancer. We hope that as you're making blocks for the quilt along, you to make an extra block or two along the way and donate them to this great cause.
Email them here if you are interested in helping. It would be wonderful if many quilts came of this!
Also, since quilt assembling is a lot of work, perhaps there are people out there who would like to help with that aspect? Know a long arm quilter who might want to tackle a couple of quilts for a good cause? Would you enjoy spending a bit of time stitching a binding or two to help finish the quilts? Please let us know or just drop an email to FabFanatics directly about it.
Meanwhile, have you seen the great creativity popping up over at the flickr group? Lots of great Friendship Stars in there!
Check out the fun pieced center that Shawn Marie created for her block.
And doesn't it look great with these strongly contrasting colors that Aimee used?
Can't wait to see what other twists you come up with!
9 comments:
Hallo, and many greetings from Germany,
I'm reading your blog already for a while and I like it so much (and much more in white!) I want to ask you if it makes any sense to join your Quilt-along? I really would like to do it!
Dorothee
I like the charity aspect of this quilt along. I will definitely check out the link, send an email and make some extra blocks. Great idea.
Hi,
Thanks for the mention about our charity quilts project! here is a link to our group site. http://cancersewdone.ning.com/
Love Love Love all of the great block ideas!
Hello,
I would love to join your group, but I am not sure how a virtual quilting bee works. I have tried to join many other quiltin bees but so far I have not been asked to participate. How does a virtual bee work?
Thank you,
Lindsey
I don't mind doing bindings. I would gladly volunteer my time for that. I can either just do the hand-stitching on the back, or I can do all the steps. (I wouldn't trust my newbie machine stippling on quilts for charity.)
Lindsey - if you click over to our flickr group and read the forums there's lot of info there. Meanwhile we're putting together a FAQ post.
Alison! Wonderful! I think if you sign up here: http://cancersewdone.ning.com/ you can coordinate with Tracey. Thanks!
How cool - I posted about your block party on my blog:
http://colorfulartgirl.blogspot.com/2009/11/scrap-saturday.html
I'll look forward to participating.
I love these two colours together.
I will definitely check out the link, send an email and make some extra blocks. Great idea.
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