Hello friends! I am back for a few days from a vacation that was interupted by a misbehaving transmission--but we rolled with it and will return to our camping adventure on Monday morning.
I have lots to share about the world and work of Margaret's Hope Chest.
We have received so many quilt and quilt top donations over the past month--it has been amazing! Thanks to all who have spent the time and money to send or drop these quilts off--the quilts pictured below came last week from Jessica at Twin Fibers. I just love her blog and I was amazed to find out that she only lives 30 minutes from me and also, that she donated a large group of her latest projects!
You will continue to see other donations as we work our way through the 100 or so quilt tops--so awesome!
The night before we left for our trip I finished this pirate/skull themed quilt for an almost 2 year old who has a daddy in prison. I used the disappearing nine patch block because it's fast and easy :) and I was down to the wire! I hope he loves it!
And one of the great things that came out of our interrupted vacation was that I am able to join my mom tomorrow at a prison in northern Michigan to share our story and message of forgiveness and HOPE with a group of prisoners. Then each dad will pick out a quilt (most of which have been donated by blog readers :) ) to give their child/children. I love these days the best--I wish you all could see the joy that the quilts bring these families. 43 children will walk out of the prison tomorrow with a concrete symbol of their father's love! I can't wait!
And so I will sign off for now and be back soon with more updates on God's work through MHC!!!
2 comments:
Thank you for sharing about the latest news. And about the Twin Fibers blog! It's a great read.
Hope your transmission troubles are a thing of the past. Happy Camping! :)
Love the pirate quilt.
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