Quilts for Romania
 

Our church, for the last 10 years, has been sending a missions team to Romania. They work with a camp that brings in children from a couple orphanages to have a week of camp away from the orphanage. They also will do a week of bringing in poor kids from nearby villages. The organization is called Heart of Hope and they run Camp of the Good Shepherd
My 2nd daughter went the first year, when she was in college. My son-in-law (not then though) (married daughter #3 later) went then as well. Since then my husband has served as well as my oldest daughter.
The organization that supports the camp has also opened a home called Home of Hope. It houses 8 young women, some from the orphanage, some from poor families, these young women are going to university as well as learn how to keep a home, cook and generally care for themselves, things not learned in an orphanage.
Our UFO group decided to send each a girl a quilt that they will be able to take with them when they leave the home. There are also 2 young men who run the camp and the home that we are making quilts for.
I donated fabric for 9 of these tops and for 4 of them I had the blocks already made but not put together. These are the ones that are finished. We are still working on the others.
They will go in July with our team heading over to work.
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This quilt was 2 years of block of the months's I made but never put together[ATTACH=CONFIG]414099[/ATTACH]This second quilt was a block that I had made for a block exchange with our UFO group but I liked the block too much to give away. I then made another block to coordinate with it. The stack sat for 10 years so I decided to give them away[ATTACH=CONFIG]414102[/ATTACH]This one is some left over yellow brick road blocks I did not use from a long time ago This is one of the two "guy" quilts. and yes, the outer fabric border does have little skulls on it. You can see them if you look really close.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]414103[/ATTACH]This one also has some yellow brick road blocks that we added some large block of fabric to
[ATTACH=CONFIG]414104[/ATTACH]This one is made from fabrics from my great friend Sandy. she pulled them from her stash.

All of the quilts are twin/double size. Just right for a twin bed

They are all gorgeous. Love most of the colors.

What wonderful gifts, not only the lovely quilts but your volunteer time as well. It makes me happy to know some young people are given some extra help to succeed and a remembrance of the time and people who helped. Thank you!

Beautiful. Teaching life skills is wonderful. Are they also teaching spirit skills? Thanks for posting pic

Yes, all 8 of the young women have committed their life to Christ. They are also getting Biblical training and Discipleship

Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story; kudos to your family for doing this. My neighbor Gloria and her gang from church put together packages several times a year for the Romanian orphanages - it's never ending rewarding work.

Fabulous in every way. Do you know the song, "Blessed to be a Blessing?" It's apropos!

those are beautiful. :)

God Bless you for all you do for others!! Love the quilts and I know they will be much appreciated!! We have so many great quilters on here who share their time and quilts with those who need uplifting.

Beautiful quilts and great cause..

Beautiful quilts! What a wonderful thing you all do!

nicely done

I'm sure they will appreciate them so much!

nice quilts. How wonderful that you do good works with your quilts.

Each quilt is prettier than the other.All are so colorful and well made. Do you machine quiltt hem or qayg ? Hugs and prayers to both USA and Romania

they are beautiful!!!!!!!

Sandy quilted the pretty one she made with dragon fly's on her machine. I FMQ one of them with a rose meander and another gal that comes to our UFO has a long arm and she quilted 6 of the 10 We have two that still need backing purchased (that may have happened yesterday) If so, we will sandwich those tonight and I'll probably quilt one and my friend Jane will probably quilt the other.

that is a nice thing to do. love all the quilts!!!

What a great cause & the quilts are all so pretty.

God Bless you and your family for the wonderful volunteer work. The quilts are beautiful and will surely be loved!

God bless you for sharing your talent, I am sure they will all be well loved!

yes very nice project

Those are some great quilts!!!

All of them are so very beautiful.

Very nice quilts. And high praise to all the quilters for donating their time, fabric, and skills.

Beautiful quilts and great cause..

All fabulous quilts for a great cause!

Wonderful gifts!

Beautiful. Do you work with the couple from Green Fairy Quilts? I know they go to Romania every year with quilts. http://greenfairyquilts.com/catalog.php?category=24

These are wonderful quilts for a wonderful cause. I do hope that when they make it to Romania someone can take some pictures of the recipents getting these beautiful quilts and hopefully you can share those as well.

You should be so proud of your children, for their loving hearts and wanting to help others!! The quilts are a wonderful way of sharing love with others. Blessings to you and your family!!!!

Your quilts are beautiful.

Wow, those are wonderful quilts, and such rewarding work you are doing!

Beautiful quilts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, this is with an organization called Heart Of Hope.

These are all wonderful!, what a great legacy you are building!!

How wonderful of you and your group to supply quilts and what a wonderful opportunity for those young ladies to be in such a place. Bless all of you

The quilts are beautiful and what a wonderful cause. Congratulations

Those are lovely and so is the cause.

What a blessing for these young people at the home. I know the mission team members will return with a whole new outlook on life.