Medina Quilter’s Chairty Quilt #1
Our little quilt group has completed our first charity quilt, and I couldn’t be more happy with the results!
This is one of our pizza box quilts, that we started in February 2008 and it’s made with the Moda “Summer Basket of Flowers” fabrics that were generously donated by Abbi May’s Fabric Shop. I made the center row of four blocks and pieced them together, then another quilter took the pizza box and made the next row of blocks and put them together … and we passed the box around until the quilt was completed.
At the last quilt meeting in Septemer, I respectfully requested that I be allowed to finish this quilt, and to have the UMC church and their UMW group, that sponsors our Cub Scout pack, sell raffle tickets to raffle off the quilt…with the proceeds going to the Scout pack. It was a unanimous vote by the gracious quilt ladies, and I took the bull by the horns (yeah, we do that in Texas) and sent it off for long-arm quilting as quickly as I could.
I received the quilt in the mail this week, quilted to perfection by MaryKates-QuiltsnThings – with a new pattern that I just love! And the UMW ladies met this week and approved of the quilt as well as selling the raffle tickets to help the CS pack. What joy it is to find such generosity amongst friends!
So, I’ll bind the quilt this weekend and show it off to both the Cub Scout pack on Monday, as well as to our quilting ladies — and then I’ll turn the quilt over to the UMW so they can get busy selling the raffle tickets!
Ooooh, I just love quilting — and quilting for charity that benefits a fine group of local boys in Cub Scouts is even better!
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