Churn Dash

One of our group projects here in Bangkok, Thailand over the past year was to make up 12″ quilt blocks with leftover scraps, to be collected and made up into charity quilts. Linda arranged and packaged some of them into kits. As for the rest, I have 47 churn dash blocks to make up into quilts for charity. Made two already:
These kids’ quilts are 40″ x 50″.
We have new members in the group who are enthusiastic about making quilts for charity. It’s great! We’ve got a bunch made already.

Four quilts for Habitat for Humanity

Every year our Bangkok quilt group donates quilts to Habitat for Humanity.
These were pieced by Bev, and I machine quilted them.
Here are two more pieced by Bev and tied by Terri:
The four quilts were presented to four families who moved into new houses built by Habitat for Humanity in Thailand. I hope the families enjoy them!

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Tippecanoe was a battle against the Indians in 1811. John Tyler was nominated for Vice President in 1840. Here is my latest quilt for charity, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too , a block from the Quilters Cache site. I made six blocks and framed them with an eight inch border. The large border was useful. I used it to practice machine quilting a feather motif.

Quilt group was fun today. We are planning another meeting for Friday to cut fabric strips for kits to make more charity quilts, which will go to Children of the Forest. Deb recently visited the village and she says they are doing well, trying to support themselves with mushroom growing and rice milling among other industries. They enjoyed our last donation of over 200 quilts for kids.