A Class Act

Last week I was able to dust off my pointer, find my long-lost teacher voice and make a little visit to my daughter's class to share the story of Margaret's Hope Chest and enlist their help to design 2 quilts for the Hope Squared project. Man, were they excited....thankfully, we were able to channel all of that excitement into 91 nine-patch blocks (with 2 inch squares). We talked about some big concepts like the color wheel, complimentary colors, and monochromatic blocks. Well, I think they learned something because just look at their first quilt, WOW! Mom will have to find about 10 extra hours in the next few days to finish the second one!







 

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With Love....

So far we have received a queen-sized bed full of quilts or for those number people out there-137
quilts made with love and care!!


 


 
Speaking of love, look what a lovely little quilt I received from Uraguay today!

Two Questions

1. What does a quilter do on Halloween evening??
 

She quilts her creepiest, crawliest, scariest quilt for Hope Squared!
 


2. What does a quilter do with her one extra hour tonight???
 
She catches up on quilting projects!

Labels

 
Look what came in the mail today?? I love Spoonflower and I love these labels-they will be a great addition to all of our Hope Squared quilts. A quilt arrived from Scotland today and it only took 6 days to get here-wow!

More than 100 quilts!

After today's mail was delivered our Hope Squared quilt total rose over 100!! We are one-fourth of the way to our goal. People have been asking if I think we will reach our goal of 400 quilts-well, if everyone who has committed to help does then we should reach or possibly surpass the 400 mark. Wouldn't that be wonderful?? Until then, we are waiting for our custom made labels to arrive from Spoonflower, finishing off dozens of quilt tops, ordering bolts of batting, and answering phone calls and e-mails. Exciting times.
By the way, CRAFT HOPE was hacked this morning and so their site will not be available until it all gets figured out. If you have a comment or question about the project you can leave a comment here and I can answer them. Praying that all of Jade's wonderful work over there wasn't lost....why do people do that?

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Today would have been my grandma's 86th birthday...well, OK officially her birthday is tomorrow. Seems things are a little different now then they were 86 years ago. Birthdays didn't carry the same weight back then, especially when you were baby number 9. So, when baby Margaret's first birthday rolled around, my great-grandma Bertha did her best to remember what day that was. She remembered Oct.21st and so that became my grandma's birthday for 64 years....until a few months before her 65th birthday when she had to obtain a copy of her birth certificate. Low and behold, she was actually born on Oct. 22nd! I love that little story from my grandma's life...makes me laugh!
Sometimes when a loved one is taken from this earth you allow yourself to imagine them still here. I indulged recently at a family dinner celebrating my mom and dad's birthdays. I imagined my grandpa and grandma arriving together and sitting side by side at the table. I imagined that my grandma ordered a beer (which she was known to do sometimes). I imagined my parents opening their birthday cards signed by my grandma. I realized it's the small things that I miss the most.
Today, I imagine my grandma would still be alive if two girls
hadn't made a really terrible choice 4.5 years ago. I imagine there would be no Margaret's Hope Chest. Not sure how I feel about all of this imagining....Happy Birthday Grandma!