Asterisk Quilt is Complete!

I LOVE this quilt!  Each and every block is so different.  There are different greens and purples and greys, but it works!



The ladies from the Quilting for Kids group did an awesome job.  I can't tell you how thankful I am that you all pitched in to make this quilt for "T."  (Read the story here.)

I only had a problem with one of the blocks being a little small, but the rest were perfect.  Do you know how easy it made the piecing?



Sarah sent me a surprise with her block.  She sent me 2 yards of this purple marble to use for the quilt.  It added a special little touch to the back.  (You can see I was about 2 inches shy on the one side, so had to add a little white.)



Some of the asterisks were quilted on the outside, like the one above, and some on the inside like the one below.



It was fun and easy for me to put together.  You guys did all the hard work!  Please visit the ladies who made this possible and tell them what a great job they did!



The contributors to this quilt (in no particular order) are: (And ladies, if I messed up your link or excluded you, please let me know! And feel free to use any pics for your blog!)

Laura at  http://lauralovesquilting.blogspot.com/

Jen at  http://knotted-thread.blogspot.com/

Emily at http://www.creativechicksatplay.blogspot.com/

Jmbyerwalter on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/12100837@N06

NanasQuilts on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/18694879@N08/

HeatherSue10 on flicker at http://www.flickr.com/photos/15874173@N04/

Dawn at http://quiltingbydawn.blogspot.com/

Wendy on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/48951377@N05/

Melissa at http://www.achildofthewildblueyonder.blogspot.com/

Karen at http://capitolaquilter.blogspot.com/

Deb at http://triostitchstudio.blogspot.com/

Toni at http://hoosiertoni.blogspot.com/

Laura at http://lauralovesquilting.blogspot.com/

Jana at http://www.icantwanna.blogspot.com/

Kelsey at http://www.kelseysews.blogspot.com/

Mary Catharine at http://warmthinthenorth.typepad.com/

Lizzie on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizziebird/

Jodi on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/56269100@N03/

Ella at http://throwawenchintheworks.blogspot.com/

Lisa at http://modernbalabusta.blogspot.com/

Toni on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/43767908@N08/

Annaliese at http://www.thepewteracorn.blogspot.com/

Colleen at http://colleenamareena.blogspot.com/

Shanna at http://fiberofallsorts.blogspot.com/

Melissa at http://blog.sewbittersweetdesigns.com/

Danny at http://www.mommyforreals.blogspot.com/

Sarah at http://sarahlaucamp.blogspot.com/

SayLucky on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/64019676@N02/




I'm linked up with SewHappyGeek,  Quilt Story,   Freshly Pieced,   CrazyMomQuilts

Great News!

All of you who are helping me along with our Quilting for Kids project, Julie from The Intrepid Thread has generously given us a 10% discount for buying material in the colors we may not have!



Thank you Julie!

So head on over and get some greens and purples and greys. You can check out the store's blog here. Thank you for your help!

Coupon code: QFORK10

New Blocks

Our group on Flickr is getting some action.

Here are a few new Asterisk blocks from the group. They will be used in our quilt for a child in foster care. You can read more about it here....and YOU can help!

We still need 20 more blocks to make a twin sized quilt.

This is from Jennifer at Knotted Thread


These are from Melissa...A Child of the Wild Blue Yonder.

Here's my first one.

Wanna help? Head on over and sign up!

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New Quilting for Kids Project

The Asterisk Quilt

This will be a quilt for a sixteen year old girl who is in the foster care system. My mom has been working with her for a long time. And without too much detail, her short life has included child trafficking, running away, and pregnancy.

Amidst all these things in her life that are so horrific, she still has her heart opened to the things of God. She will talk about God and goes to church. She is a lost little girl, but there is hope for her.

This quilt will be hers to keep. And since she is a teenager, I thought we should do something a little modern.

The inspiration for this quilt comes from Lee at FreshlyPieced. I saw the quilt that the do. Good Stitches group did that she directed, and thought it would be perfect.



Thinking about colors, I found a mosaic on flickr that Lisaleh made and loved the colors. The colors are chartreuse, purples, and grays. A link to the picture is here.

If you would like to help out, please go over to the flickr group Quilting for Kids and sign up. I am looking for any style of asterisk, big or small, one or many on each 12.5" unfinished block.

I need a total of 42 to make a twin sized quilt for her.

I would also like your help in spreading the word. You can use the button that is on the sidebar to put on your blog and if there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.

All she needs is Binding

Here is the latest quilt that our group Quilting for Kids has made using this tutorial. 



I just have to finish up the binding tomorrow and she'll be off to the boy in the foster care system.



I can't wait for him to receive it.

If you helped out in making this quilt, you can go over to flickr and tag yourself in it.  I just learned that you can do that.  Pretty cool!



I did straight line quilting in the diamond patterns that you see.  I was nervous about doing it because it seems like whenever I use my walking foot to straight line quilt I always end up with folds because the fabric gets pulled.  I hate that! But I saw Leah Day do straight line quilting as free motion quilting, with a different foot, so I tried it.  The lines are not perfect.  Occasionally wonky and sometimes flat out crooked, but the over all effect is what I wanted.  It was much easier to do it this way, than with the walking foot, where you have to turn the whole quilt so much.  So go check out her method.  I'll definitely be doing it again.


Here's the wonderful people who helped make this quilt.  In no particular order.  Would you go and tell them what a wonderful job they did?

Kelly from http://craftytwinmommy.blogspot.com/
Melissa from http://blog.sewbittersweetdesigns.com/
Jenn from  http://knotted-thread.blogspot.com/
Ella from http://throwawenchintheworks.blogspot.com/
Katy from http://thelittlestthistlecraftshop.blogspot.com/
Lisa on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/1145113
Sarah from http://sarahlaucamp.blogspot.com/
Melissa from http://www.achildofthewildblueyonder.blogspot.com/
Deb from http://triostitchstudio.blogspot.com/
Shanna from http://fiberofallsorts.blogspot.com/
Toni on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/43767908@N08/
Toni from http://hoosiertoni.blogspot.com/
Danny from http://www.mommyforreals.blogspot.com/
Colleen from http://colleenamareena.blogspot.com/
Christine from http://punkinhandmades.blogspot.com/

If you'd like to join Quilting for Kids, please feel free to sign up! Also, grab a button for your blog and spread the word.  Thank you!

I'm linking up with some great ladies. JAQS Jenna CanoeRidge Quiltstory

New Quilting for Kids Project

It's time to start a new project.

This time, we are making a quilt for a young man who is in the foster care system (he is the brother of the two sisters we made the pink and purple quilt for.)

This young man lives with a lot of stress, mostly situational.  But he also is working on acquiring coping skills that will help him handle things better when they don't go his way.

I've been at breakfast with my mom when she's received numerous frantic calls from him.  She has to help talk him down and help him relax and see the bigger picture.

That's the problem, the bigger picture sometimes looks so bleak, it's like you're looking out a very dirty window and if you could just wipe it all clean, things would look so much better.

This is where he is in life.  So we will make a quilt for him to comfort him and remember to keep looking, and things will clear up.



So here's the plan.  When I saw this quilt by Toni (who helped us on the last Quilting for Kids quilts), I knew that this would be a great design for a boy.  It's a great, easy pattern that will be very striking in his favorite color combination, which is red, black, grey and white.

We are going to use solids only.  Because he is a teenage boy, I think it will be difficult to find many fabrics in these colors that are "boyish," I would hate to receive blocks that I don't feel would match the rest of the quilt and not be able to use them.

Also, I will be making the red blocks, so that the red will all match.  So what I need from you is a white/black or white/any shade of grey block. I know this seems like a much more boring quilt than the last, but I promise there will be another one shortly that will be for another girl and will allow us to be more creative with our fabric.

Each block will be 10.5" unfinished.
You will only need two 8.5" squares to get started.  One white and one either black or grey.  **Please use Kona white or something equivalent so that the blocks will look good next to each other.**  Any shade of grey is fine.

A full tutorial is available with pictures here, but basically you cut a 8.5" square from both fabrics and sew them right sides together all the way around the outside then cut into quarters along the diagonal.  Press then trim to 5.5" then sew back together in order.  It's super easy and fast.  I finished mine in 10 minutes.

I need 25 black and 25 grey blocks to make a twin size quilt.  If you would like to participate, go on over to the flickr group and sign up.    I would like to receive these blocks by mid January, so if you could mail them out by the 12th, that would be awesome. 

Thank you all so much for your help! And if you'd like to share on your blog or other media site and recruit people, by all means do!  You can also use the Quilting for Kids button for your blog.  It's available on the side bar...over there.----->

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Quilting for Kids Garden Fence Complete!

Here she is in all her beauty.

 This quilt was a cooperative effort.  Many people from flickr land joined the group Quilting for Kids and signed up to make a block or two (or 3 or 4).  They mailed them in to me and I made this quilt for one of the girls my mother works with in the foster care system.  (You can read the whole story here.)

We used the tutorial at Hyacinth Quilt Designs to make the blocks.  I then edited out the white sashing because I just loved the different shades of pink and purple mixing together.

The back was pieced using a few extra squares I had and a star that I used from her sister's quilt.


I wanted to have a little piece of each others' quilts on both of them.  So there are stars and squares on both.

Here is the roundup of those who contributed to this quilt (in no particular order).  Would you stop by their blog and tell them they are awesome?

Jennifer - http://knotted-thread.blogspot.com/
Debbe  – http://piecestolove.blogspot.com/
Annaliese - Flickr  pewteracorn

Patricia - http://www.ziamariadesigns.net/

Toni - http://hoosiertoni.blogspot.com/  

Christine - http://punkinhandmades.blogspot.com/  

Toni  – Flickr  Smalltown97038  

Wendy  – Flickr wendydi1 

Karen  – FLickr capitolaquilter  

Lyanna - http://www.purplepandaquilts.blogspot.com/    

Jennifer  – Flickr jenjohnston    

Dawn  – Flickr quiltyquilter   

Rachael  – http://cutsewandrepeat.blogspot.com/  

Shanna - http://fiberofallsorts.blogspot.com/ 

Erin - www.missymaccreations.blogspot.com 

Melissa -  http://www.achildofthewildblueyonder.blogspot.com/ 

Allegory - http://www.sewallegorical.com/ 

Keera -  http://www.Live-love-sew.blogspot.com 

Annabella - http://kechquilts.blogspot.com 

Amy -  http://www.craftydame.blogspot.com/ 

Katrina - http://kcalgary.blogspot.com 

Lu -  http://www.forthelovequilts.blogspot.com/ 

Laurie - Flickr  L Hellewell  

Jodi - Flickr JKAE1989   

Jenna - http://sewhappygeek.co.uk/   

Liz - http://lizmakesstuff.blogspot.com/    

(If I did not add your blog, it's because I didn't know it.  And some of you I couldn't find to link to.)   These quilts have been a wonderful experience.  It's been fun to watch the blocks come in and my mom and I have totally enjoyed the process. I will be posting later this week about our next Quilting for Kids project. It's for the brother of these two girls. It might be more a challenge, because I always think things for boys are harder, but the colors will be black, white, red and grey. So get your "teenager-ish" fabrics ready and I'll start the sign up soon. Thank you all sooooo much, from the bottom of my heart! And one final note: The tag that will be placed on the back will say the girl's name, and then: "God has a plan for you and loves you more than you can imagine, and so do I. Love, Miss Beverly December 2011 Jeremiah 29:11"