What's your favorite pattern for charity quilts...
04-30-2012, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by MadQuilter
I used strips of darks and lights - alternating. You sew them together on a 45 degree angle.
04-30-2012, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by jcrow
Where is a good place to donate a few quilts I made besides nursing homes, salvation army and the hospitals?
04-30-2012, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Peckish
d9p, Florentine Fantasy, and Sylvia's Windows are my faves. Sylvia & Florentine are both really fast projects, you can go from uncut yardage to complete top in one day. I don't get bored with the Florentine pattern as quickly as the others.
04-30-2012, 10:49 PM
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For children's charities (like Project Linus), I LOVE Streak of Sunshine from Quiltville ---> http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/...-sunshine.html
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04-30-2012, 10:57 PM
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One last suggestion... I also have used either a panel or some neat fabric & done a really simple frame around it. This fabric was so wild I didn't know what else to do with it, so that's how I used it (this was before I knew about Stack & Whack or the Posy 4-Patch because it would have been PERFECT for those). I donated it to QOV & got a really nice thank you note re it.
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04-30-2012, 11:08 PM
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Those are very pretty! I've always thought of 9-patches in that setting as an Irish chain. Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno. Anyway...
The Florentine Fantasy is a free download and can be found here: http://www.robertkaufman.com/quiltin...ntine_fantasy/
just click "download more info" at the right for the pattern. The quilt they picture is made from rather busy fabrics, but I will post pics of the ones I've made soon (hopefully).
Sylvia's Windows seems to be harder to locate. It was a pattern published in a magazine a year or two ago, I think it may have been McCall's, I'm not sure. Let me work on finding that pattern....
The Florentine Fantasy is a free download and can be found here: http://www.robertkaufman.com/quiltin...ntine_fantasy/
just click "download more info" at the right for the pattern. The quilt they picture is made from rather busy fabrics, but I will post pics of the ones I've made soon (hopefully).
Sylvia's Windows seems to be harder to locate. It was a pattern published in a magazine a year or two ago, I think it may have been McCall's, I'm not sure. Let me work on finding that pattern....
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05-01-2012, 03:39 AM
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I am very partial to 16 patch blocks using 2 1/2" squares (cut)
Always including 3 solid blacks scattered amongst the others
I sash with black or navy, using a 2 /12" cornerstone of a scrap.
Have also made the same quilt with 3 1/2" (cut) squares
Many years ago when I went regularly to Quilting by the Lake in Cazenovia, NY quilters threw away large scrap pieces.
After the classes were over I collected large scraps from wastebaskets, enough to make a double Ocean Waves, which I've called The QBL Wastebasket Quilt
Always including 3 solid blacks scattered amongst the others
I sash with black or navy, using a 2 /12" cornerstone of a scrap.
Have also made the same quilt with 3 1/2" (cut) squares
Many years ago when I went regularly to Quilting by the Lake in Cazenovia, NY quilters threw away large scrap pieces.
After the classes were over I collected large scraps from wastebaskets, enough to make a double Ocean Waves, which I've called The QBL Wastebasket Quilt
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