Kaleidoscope
It's a finish!
40 x 56
I had a few chunks of different yellows. A year or so ago I decided to use them along with 4.5 inch width scraps I had at the time in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month. I use a Kaleidoscope ruler to cut parts.
I quilted it on my sewing machine with swirls.
The backing is a kaleidoscope of color. And I found just enough solid yellow pieces in my leftover binding box for the binding so I guess it was meant to be.
Now it is ready for donation to Wrap-A-Smile. There has recently been an urgent call for quilts because there are more upcoming Rotaplast missions than prevously anticipated. That's a good thing.
"Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities. Working with local professionals, Rotarians, and other organizations, Rotaplast sends multidisciplinary medical teams to provide free reconstructive surgery, ancillary treatment, and training for the comprehensive care of these children." Wrap-A-Smile provides each child undergoing surgery with a quilt.
I have donated quilts to Wrap-A-Smile since 2013 (I think) and every once in awhile it is fun to spot a quilt I made with a child. I just added a page at the top of my blog with pics of kids around the world I have spotted with a quilt I've made.
If you are interested in donating quilts to Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) please read the WAS Guidelines and WAS Shipping Info. Or you can email me and I'll be happy to answer your questions.
And sew on...
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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)
I spy ephemerals along my garden pathways. Oh joy!
Species or Wild Tulips
Wood Hyacinth or Spanish Bluebells
Daffodils
(About that plastic bag sticking up....My husband receives his nutrition via G-tube and a pump with IV bags that hold liquid food and water. Last year I took a bunch of his IV bags and put them over the top of all sorts of trumpet vines with very deep roots that had popped up everywhere and difficult to get rid of. I tied the bags shut with the bag tubing. Of course raccoons had to pull off some of the 30 or so bags but most stayed on from last spring to this spring and it looks like that method MIGHT have finally killed off all those bits and pieces of trumpet vine in unwanted spots. I do have trumpet vine on a trellis in the middle of the cottage garden but I don't want it anywhere else strangling everything in sight.)
Bloodroot
Large Crocus
Miniature Daffodils
Muscari or Grape Hyacinth
7 comments:
This is such a happy quilt! It's calling Spring and warmer days. Great idea for getting rid of unwanted plants and reusing plastic bags. I hope it works. Some plants should be admired for their tenacity and nothing else. Enjoy! ;^)
Such a pretty quilt, great spring colors! And thank you so much for the photos of your garden flowers, they are so beautiful.
What a happy finish! What a cool page add--Quilts at Work--how heart warming it must feel to see your work at work!!!
LOVE that yellow kaleidoscope quilt! What a happy, cheerful palette. And hooray for spring flowers.
Such a sunshiney happy quilt, glowing with colour.
That's a great quilt and so cheerful with the yellows. Thanks for sharing. I love that organization's mission. I admit that I usually donate just tops due to price, so that's probably not one for me.
Another stunning quilt to bring comfort to those who need it. Oh my! the flowers! They are beautiful!
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