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twinkie 05-12-2017 05:09 AM

Sheriff's Department Donation Quilt
 
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Our quilt guild has furnished lap quilts to the Sheriff's Department to use when a child is caught up in a bad situation. Our guild meets 2 - 3 times a week and I kept seeing four large blocks on a chair in the sewing room. I asked what they were for and the president said, " One of the members took a class on a puzzler quilt and didn't like how they were turning out so she donated them to the guild to use in a donation quilt."

After three months of looking at these blocks I decided I would take them home and see what I could do with them. The block in the lower right hand corner could have been turned so the color block was in the far corner. I didn't notice it until I went out to take a picture. I am sure that young children are not quilt inspectors yet so I am going to let it go. That same block with the green color in it had fabric that was a small zebra print with a zebra head in it. I had some of the same fabric that was a little larger so I decided to use it in the border. Hope it brings joy to a troubled child.

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Thanks for looking

grammasharon 05-12-2017 05:15 AM

I'm sure some child will enjoy that discarded quilt. You have brought new life to those 4 donated blocks. Good job!

Jane Quilter 05-12-2017 05:17 AM

great save...................

KLO 05-12-2017 06:06 AM


Originally Posted by grammasharon (Post 7822545)
I'm sure some child will enjoy that discarded quilt. You have brought new life to those 4 donated blocks. Good job!

I would definitely have to agree with this statement. Wrap that around some frightened child and he/she won't care where that one block is located. What is that saying: "You turned a sow's ear into a silk purse" or something like that.

QuiltnNan 05-12-2017 06:17 AM

it looks great the way it is

quiltsRfun 05-12-2017 06:26 AM

Looks great the way it is. It will be a real comfort to someone in need.

QM 05-12-2017 06:31 AM

Looks good. Means a great deal. I met an "emergency foster parent" who sought me out to say that she had a foster son taken from a meth lab house. Everything the child owned had to be destroyed so he arrived on her doorstep wrapped in a quilt I'd donated. He would not let it out of his clutches for days and it had to be in his sight for a lot longer. She said it was impossible to overstate the importance of these quilts.

lynnie 05-12-2017 07:17 AM

great save, it will be loved by a small chld

nativetexan 05-12-2017 07:21 AM

I like how it looks. very nice indeed.

paintmejudy 05-12-2017 11:55 AM

Nicely done, for a wonderful cause


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