Quilt Room in a Bag

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I was approached after Katrina hit our shores by a woman who had read my blog, and knew I am a quilter. She had developed the idea of pulling together things for quilters who had lost everything in the hurricane, including the material to make a quilt.
I got started on the project, and then asked my Friday Night Quilt Bee if they wanted to participate. We’ve pulled together a variety of items the average quilter has in her quilt room: pins, needles, a magnetic pin holder, fabric and paper scissors, thread, needle threaders, marking pens, colored pencils, a Pigma pen for signing quilts, a pin cushion, safety pins, a bag of embellishments (buttons, beads, Yo-Yos, floss), two quilting books, a quilting hoop, template material, an Olfa rotary cutter, a mat and a ruler. We also added a package of comfort items like tissues, hand cream, Advil, playing cards, stationary and stamps.
Elegante Mother and I searched our stashes of fabric to find the material for a red, white and blue quilt top that is 68 inches wide and 88 inches long. I cut the blocks, sashing and setting blocks. We supplied fabric for the outer border, and yesterday I bought a wonderful fabric in shades of blue to white in a hydrangea pattern for the quilt backing. (I wish I had purchased a bit o that for my stash!)
We added our favorite batt to the collection, and I gathered scraps for the hearts that are to be appliqu

2 thoughts on “Quilt Room in a Bag”

  1. You are doing a wonderful thing! Actually, this timing is probably perfect–when people have had a small opportunity to assimilate the shock of having lost everything. Somehow, I don’t think I could have even considered quilting during the first two or three months had I been an evacuee. But, then, I’m not the dyed-in-the-wool quilter that some people are. Good luck in locating another lucky recipient.

  2. Thank you, Cop Car.
    Kathleen thought that putting this equipment, AND the pieces to a quilt, into a quilter’s hands would give her a way to work through her woes. She devised a pattern she called a “Mending Heart,” that was a pieced, appliqu

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