Category Archives: Charity Quilts

“American Quilter” May 2016 Issue

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I haven’t said this enough but I am truly honored to have my articles for some lesser-known charities in each American Quilter issue in 2016.  Overjoyed.  Blessed.  Humbled.  And not just my voice heard but the voices of all of those who represent the work that they do for others.

In the May 2016 issue of American Quilter, I am the voice for our four legged critters.  Cats.  Dogs.  Pets.  They deserve love as they love us so unconditionally.  My reward?  A ton of wet slobbery moochies from our two family canines.  They deserve belly scratchies, for sure!

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A Year of Giving: Touching the Heart of a Quilter

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Quilters are some of the most loving and giving people I know.  Hands-down, the best!  Any type of donation – from money to fabric to work product – will come to a quilter.

My first article in the American Quilter magazine is titled “Angel Babies.”  It is a heartbreaking topic but the things that at least one of the organizations mentioned in the article (Teeny Tears) is doing in the memory of Angel Babies amazing.  AMAZING!

AngelBabies

The January 2016 American Quilter magazine was delivered to subscribers last week.  While it was a kick to see my name in the magazine, the response from Teeny Tears was better than anything I could have hoped for!

We already have TWO new people, just in the last hour! This is exciting and hilarious! I LOVE IT! ~ Megan Bradshaw, Founder & President of Teeny Tears

This is the quilted love that literally brings a tear my eyes – quilters, selflessly giving of their time, talent and fabric to help those in need.  What a blessing – both Teeny Tears as well as quilters everywhere who sign up to help.  THANK YOU!

A Year of Giving

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Magazine cover of American Quilter for January 2016

I am honored to be a published writer (and quilter) featured in a series of articles under the umbrella of “A Year of Giving” for American Quilter published by the American Quilter’s Society for all issues published in 2016.  My first article will leave you breathless, heartbroken for those in the article and hopefully, it will spur all quilters (including manufacturers and distributors in the quilt world) into action to help out the charitable causes as outlined in the article.  The January 2016 issue will hit newsstands around December 6th, 2015.

Quilters – do your best by others and they will do their best by you.

One Quilter Can Make a Difference

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I have worked hard this year at trying to make one charity quilt in between other quilt projects I have created.  For instance, if I am working on a quilted gift for a loved one, I make that gift and then make a charity quilt, then make another quilt, etc. etc.

My own quilting is about me, whether those quilts are made for others, made for my websites or made for a magazine.  I’ve designed them, I’ve chosen the fabric for them.  I’ve gifted them with love.

My charity quilts are NOT about me.  They are about the charity that they go to.  They are no less loved than my own quilts but they are far more important, in the big scheme of all things quilted, than my personal quilt to-do lists.

There are thousands of quilts given away through the charity I work with.  THOUSANDS.  My contribution is an extremely small part of that.

Now, as one quilter, I can make a difference.  What would happen if a dozen, a hundred, a thousand quilters joined in to make charity quilts?  YOU can make a difference.  One quilt at a time.