Lacelady

I have been asked to post some info and pics of a Charity Quilt my group made last year. I happened to mention it on my diary, as it is at last featured in an Irish Quilt magazine that is apparently available in branches of Joanns. It was nice to get the recognition, but they weren't able to print more than a few details about it. Here goes. As a group, we have made numerous Project Linus quilts donated to local needy children, but decided that we wanted to make a larger one as a winter project. One of our members is a nun who worked at a Home that caters for mentally and/or physically disabled people from the very young to the very old. The home is called Cregg House, so we settled on houses for a theme, but didn't want to use existing traditional house designs, so decided to take the plunge and make our own. This was brave for those who insisted that they couldn't draw a straight line, but I insisted that if five year olds can draw a house, then so could our members. We bought some basic colours, so that there would be some continuity throughout the quilt. The sashings and borders were a strong dark royal blue. Then there were two sky colours, five house colours, two roof colours, and five greens for trees and grass. All the others came from individual stashes.