Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Project Night Night - String Quilt



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. 

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!

5 comments:

  1. it's always so great to finish things up for a good cause. I'm sure that it will be loved to bits!

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  2. What a beautiful quilt for such a worthy cause. It's almost as beautiful as the heart of the person who made it!

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  3. I love (LOVE) string quilts - yours is pretty! Your former UFO is very happy to be going to someone who will love on it :)

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  4. Emily: really beautiful! Love the mix of colors and especially what you did with the flowered sashing.

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  5. I 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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