Most of my quilt work is for charity these days. I'm just not that person who has to amass every new quilt pattern that comes along. I just mailed off five tops for Home of the Brave Quilts. This organization makes quilts to honor the military who died while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The quilts are delivered to the surviving family members.
The quilt pattern is based on a Civil War US Sanitary Commission Autograph Cross quilt. Northern women donated many styles of quilts as cot covers for Union military hospitals, along with bandages and clothing. As a forerunner of the American Red Cross, it is estimated that over 250,000 hand made quilts were given to this cause.
I asked my quilt guild if they wanted to participate and some donated blocks. I chose red-white-blue and this united the scrappy variety of blocks.
If you want to know more about this organization that started in 2004, see www.homeofthebravequilts.com. Fortunately they are almost finished honoring the 7,297 fallen heroes killed in these two conflicts.
"Greater love has no one than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
The quilt pattern is based on a Civil War US Sanitary Commission Autograph Cross quilt. Northern women donated many styles of quilts as cot covers for Union military hospitals, along with bandages and clothing. As a forerunner of the American Red Cross, it is estimated that over 250,000 hand made quilts were given to this cause.
I asked my quilt guild if they wanted to participate and some donated blocks. I chose red-white-blue and this united the scrappy variety of blocks.
If you want to know more about this organization that started in 2004, see www.homeofthebravequilts.com. Fortunately they are almost finished honoring the 7,297 fallen heroes killed in these two conflicts.
"Greater love has no one than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13