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A QUILT MADE WITH LOVE

Making a quilt for friends is such a wonderful gift.  With each square you can see the love that has gone into it.

You may remember that we did this one for Jessica with thanks to my amazing friend Heather who put it together.

I had the opportunity to be involved in another quilt recently for a friend.

We gave it to her over the weekend … well the other girls gave it to her.  I was late, as usual *sigh*.

Here is the square I decorated

 

Here are a few ideas:

Make a quilt as a baby shower gift.  Have each person going to the baby shower decorate a square.  It would make a great party activity.

Decorate squares with your children to give a one-of-a-kind quilt to a family member.

Host a quilting party with friends to give a quilt to somebody who needs a little cheering up.  Maybe they have a sick family member.  Maybe they are just going through a rough patch.  Maybe they have a family member deploying.

A QUILTER ’S DELIGHT

I’m not much of a quilter … okay I’m NOT a quilter … yet.  The most I’ve  attempted is decorating a few squares which were contributed to quilts. 

Anyway, do you remember a little while back I ran a contest for YouCanMakeThis.com … you do, great.   Anywho they are launching a new site called YouCanQuiltThis.com in April.  I’m so excited.  I really want to learn how to quilt.  I’d love to make quilts for the twins and I’ve been saving all of Jay’s special t-shirts over the years to one day make him a t-shirt quilt.

Well to launch this new site, YouCanQuiltThis.com are you giving you the opportunity to win a Marie Osmond Quilter’s Companion by Janome.  I would LOVE to win this.  To find out how you can enter to win – and there are multiple ways you can, click on the picture below.

Good luck!

A QUILT FOR A FRIEND

I hope my girlfriends don't mind me posting about this ... I'm sure they won't.

Over a couple of months members (and past members) of my multiples group banded together to make a quilt for our beautiful friend Jessica's birthday.  She has been going through so much recently while one of her little twins has been battling Stage 4 Neuroblastoma (cancer).  We wanted to give her a little something to let her know how much we all loved her.  Something that would give her a giant hug when we couldn't.  This past weekend a fundraising benefit was held to help the family.  3 members of my multiples group attended (it was also her birthday last week) and they gave her the quilt. 

Step 1 in making the quilt.

Each person decorated 2 squares (from each of their twins).  Here are mine.

(the right side of this cross-stitch design came from The Cross-Stitcher's Complete Companion: 500 Motifs for Every Occasion by Crafter's Choice.  The left side I made a mirror image of the right side)

Step 2: Sewing the quilt together.

We held a little quilting bee so Tamara, Heather and I could start the sewing of the quilt.

Here are Heather and I sewing away.

The amazing Heather (decked out in her Tuesday t-shirt too) who put together nearly the entire quilt ... I say this because seriously, I sewed together 2 rows, because I couldn't figure out how to thread my sewing machine ha ha and we were so busy eating lunch and playing with the kids that we kind of lost track of time.  She is absolutely fabulous.

The finished quilt

Here are 6 of the girls (including me) who contributed to the quilt.  They all attended the babies recent birthday bash

(l-r Nicole, me, Tamara, Heather, Shannon & Lisa)

The presenting of the quilt

My 3 amazing girlfriends Jane, Dawn and Shannon presented the quilt to Jess over the weekend.

(l-r Jane, Jess, Dawn, Shannon)

The poem.

Our friends Sharlene & Jenn came up with a beautiful poem to put on the reverse side of the quilt.

Each square a tiny work of art
Both a message and a prayer
Friends bound together
In the journey we all share
 
Tuesday's child full of strength
Her eyes so full of fire
So many battles fought and won
So many hearts inspired
 
Though distance may be between us
Our love is always near
Envelop yourself in this quilt of hope
And feel our hugs appear

 

JESS, WE LOVE YOU HONEY!