Sunday 5 January 2014

An update and some sewing

Thank you very much to everyone who responded to my last post about providing quilts to street children in Mexico City.

After much consideration, it was decided that the most secure route for the quilts to travel was via an address in the Netherlands.

For some of you, I realise that mailing costs for a single bed quilt would be too onerous.  However, emailing with Nicolette has given me an alternative idea. She suggested I ask people for blocks. I will but I'd like them quilted please! If you want to join in, please make a 12 1/2" (unfinished) block but then treat it like a mini quilt and add wadding and backing and quilt it.

To answer some of the questions in the comments: I don't mind what colours or what pattern. I would think easiest would be Log Cabin but the choice is yours. Batting - equivalent of Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 but to be honest, the last QAYG quilt I made had a mixture of two different battings and you'd never know! So long as it is not super poofy or super flat it will all be fine :-)

Mail it to me and then all I have to do is assemble the blocks together in the Quilt As You Go method, add some binding and then I'm done. I can get them across to the Netherlands no problem.
If you're interested, please email me and I'll give you my snail mail address. In return, I ask that you put stamps on the envelope to me (as opposed to a franking machine) as there is a stamp collector in the family - thank you :-)

Meanwhile, I finished a cushion cover for Catherine who won my Sew Mama Sew Giveaway last month. I promised to make a cover reflecting the five words she had left: vintage, text, floral, some curves.




The back has a concealed zipper courtesy of the very good tutorial from Adrianne at On The Windy Side



And I quilted it quite densely.



It's now reached its new home.

28 comments:

  1. The pillow is beautiful. I can send you a quilted block, but what colours and pattern would you like?

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  2. Great idea to have the blocks quilted! Love the cushion cover!

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  3. Just blogged a quilt I made today for the cause, and linked back!
    Lucky Catherine xxx

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  4. I went off grid for a while there but will look at the stash and see what quilt I can conjure up. Lovely cushion and lucky Catherine!

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  5. Alison, there is a Flickr group called Quilting for a Cause that might be a good place to mention your drive. They were great at getting blocks and quilt tops for Hurricane Sandy and the Oklahoma tornadoes. I bet many of the members would send you blocks! http://www.flickr.com/groups/quiltingforacause/

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  6. Hadley has inspired me to get a quilt made for you. Hope you get lots of responses.

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  7. Beautiful pillow, I would love to send a block, any color preferences?

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  8. Yes - give us some ideas for your quilt blocks. What about unquilted tops - would they also help? And if so, what size? That cushion is great - and a good use for dense quilting - I find it too stiff for snuggly quilts, and need so ideas for practising. Perfect! :-)

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  9. Perfect pillow! QAYG is a brilliant idea!

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  10. I can send you a quilted block too - any particular colour preferences or designs?

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  11. Love the cushion! What wadding should we use? It will make it easier for you if it's fairly consistent.

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  12. As Mara asks above, any colour preferences? I have a few orphan blocks that I am happy to send or equally happy to make some :)

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  13. Alison, I ust wrote a blogpost: http://dutchcomfort.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/asking-you-a-favour/

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  14. Would love to send a block or two - qayg is a brilliant idea! Will email you now.

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  15. I will be happy to send you some blocks.

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  16. Gorgeous cushion - lucky Catherine :) I'm sure I can come up with a block for you.

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  17. Love that cushion. Was there a certain quilt size you wanted?

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  18. Definitely interested in contributing! I have the perfect fabric: a fat quarter stack that just didn't look the way I thought it would, but is totally cute. I'm another US-based quilter. Any leads on a North American quilt-mule?

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  19. Great story, good on you, congrats on a great project.

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  20. im in....let me know address please

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  21. I will make you two quilted blocks if you can forward the address. Following Leanne's post I was glad to see you are accepting blocks and I can contribute. I

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  22. I have some blocks that would be perfect for this! What's your address?

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  23. I have some blocks that would be perfect for this. What's the address?

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  24. I have two blocks ready for posting if you can drop me your address please.

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  25. Hi Alison I was really touched by what you are doing and have made a couple of blocks so far...more to come. And I have instagrammed about it (I am blueberryathome there). Please could you email me your address so I know where to send my finished blocks? x

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  26. I have 4 blocks done. If its not too late could you let me know your address? Thank you for organising this quilt drive. I think QAYG is perfect way to get the quilts together. Good luck.

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