Several years ago, the GA's at my best friend's Baptist Church and I made 20 quilts for soldiers in a San Antonio hospital. I gave them a history about quilting, especially as it related to the military. Then I sketched off some patterns...horses, flags, etc....and let them color them with crayolas and then showed them how to heat set them. We made enough blocks to have 20 quilts.
I then showed them how we used rotary cutters...bad move...no one got hurt thank goodness...but went through about 4 blades in one night. The next week we ripped the fabric...they had a great time doing that. Then they wrote letters to go with the quilts...about 5 letters a piece...
I have a quilting machine and I did the quilting, then took the quilts to my guild which in turn gave them to the hospital. It was a great learning process...for all involved.
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