This winter my guild has set to work making quilts and stuffed animals for an organization called Project Night Night. Project night night gives tote bags filled with a quilt, a stuffed animal, and a story book to children as they enter homeless shelters. Their hope is to provide some consistency and comfort for these kids.
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| Emily and I with our donation quilts. |
Our guild managed to fill nearly 50 tote bags for Project Night Night!!
I pulled out this old (OLD) quilt top to finish up for Project Night Night. I doubt anyone remembers this quilt from the blog (read about it here) Hello, project started in January of 2010! LOL! Well it was going to be a big quilt but I lost interest. I'm glad I took the excuse of this service project to pull it out and give it a fulfilling life in the arms of a child!
The quilt finished at about 36" x 45" and I quilted it with a meandering stipple (with a few hearts and stars included). I used Pellon Legacy Batting in 100% Polyester (left over from a little project). This was my first time free motion quilting using poly batting. It was pretty interesting! I had no problems with the batting at all, but it was surprising as I quilted because it's poofy-er than the cotton. Considering the poofyness added with all those bias seams on the string blocks I expected to have more issues with quilting it - but it really was no big deal. :) I quilted it using Aurifil - that spool of thread lasted SO LONG!
I'm glad this little one has made it out of my WIP pile of shame and into the arms of a kid in need!
For a bit more about the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild's meeting check out my post over on the guild blog!
it's always so great to finish things up for a good cause. I'm sure that it will be loved to bits!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful quilt for such a worthy cause. It's almost as beautiful as the heart of the person who made it!
ReplyDeleteI love (LOVE) string quilts - yours is pretty! Your former UFO is very happy to be going to someone who will love on it :)
ReplyDeleteEmily: really beautiful! Love the mix of colors and especially what you did with the flowered sashing.
ReplyDeleteI adore string quilts and yours is awesome. I've done my previous quilts as scrappy. Seeing yours I want to do a controlled scrappy! Now I have an itch to get one started!
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