Project Linus & Aidan's Quilt

Well, I was able to finish my quilt in time for Project Linus. My quilting shop where I take my class supported this wonderful cause. These quilts are given to abused or traumatized kids by police officers, kids removed from their homes by social workers, preemie babies, AIDS babies, etc. Project Linus gives away over 1000 blankets a day to kids. My niece Tricia had preemies and I wanted so much to be a part of this project.



My teacher, the ever wonderful, Ms Janet, was the leader of the project. They had about 20 women show up and quilt blankets all day,(including my bestest buddy, Joy, who documented the entire day---see the link to her blog below, you will be astonished).

Janet's personal goal was to make 40 blankets from start to finish from 10 am until 4 pm. She exceeded her goal by everyone making 61 quilts with 30+ more quilts donated ahead of time by other people (like me) for grand total of 91 quilts to be donated just from our shop in Orange.

I quilted around each animal and the trees in this blanket and then made diamond shapes in the blue sections and the multi-colored corners and straight seams on the green border. I have to say, I am pretty proud of this quilt. It was a worthy cause and now that I know about Project Linus, I hope to be able to contribute more next year and maybe work the room like Joy did this year.


Anyway, check out Joy's blog for the entire day's activities as well as wonderful pictures.



http://joy-denise.blogspot.com/

Also, There is a teacher that I work with at school who had preemie twins in November. Sadly, she lost one baby but the other, Aidan, is doing very well. He's still in the hospital but is getting stronger every day. I found the most wonderful material and just had to make a quilt to give to her for when Aidan comes home. Here is the top to Aidan's quilt, not quite finished....it still needs to be backed and quilted. I love this material because it has all these perfect sayings on them like, "our little miracle", and what a miracle little Aidan is.

Well, I want to get this published on my blog. I'm almost finished with my niece's quilt too, but I can't post pictures of it until after I give it to her for her birthday ! More on that to come ! I've been quilting only since May 2006 and have completed 6 six quilts to date. Have two more to start planning and working on as well.

Love to all my friends....