Next week these two Cover Them With Love quilts will be delivered to Midwest Mission Distribution Center in Chatham, Illinois, along with 13 others made by two other ladies from our church. Eventually, they will make their way to Haiti.
My husband and I have volunteered at MMDC a couple of times over the past several years and are amazed by the work such a small facility accomplishes. When we're there, we generally work on putting together school kits or health kits (and recently they were putting together flood buckets to be utilized by victims of Hurricane Sandy), but during our last visit, I saw some of these quilts. Now, I love to pick up fabric at garage sales, but sometimes I get it home and realize that it isn't 100% cotton or it just isn't suitable for a quilt for one reason or another. I set it aside in my "Haiti quilt" pile of fabrics to be used later.
The quilts are completely reversible and can be made of virtually any fabric (although I try to stick with polyester, cotton, and/or flannel) and they don't require batting. You could use any pattern you'd like as long as they measure about 40" x 60", but this is the pattern provided on MMDC's Web site, so it's the one I used this time.
Now that these are done, it's back to sewing and quilting. I have two client quilts to finish in the next couple of weeks, and then I think I'll take a month or so to work on my own stack of tops that are patiently waiting to be tended to! Hopefully I'll have pictures for you soon.
In the meantime, Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you're surrounded by family and/or friends and have a lot to be thankful for. I know I will (be with family) and do (have a lot to be thankful for).
Thanks for stopping by.
Louise
