Did it just sit there, languishing for a few years while other ideas and plans had all the fun?
I have one or two of those (cough!) and this is one of them.
My project was going to look like this:
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| Kaffe Fassett Log Cabin Quilt |
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| Looking for a good home |
My plan got derailed almost as soon as I started, when the recipient moved and the quilt no longer fit in with her decor. Well, that's life. I still adore Kaffe fabrics, but just can't get the fire relit for this project. My bucket list grows faster than I can sew and because I would like to pass this project on to someone else, I am offering the unfinished quilt here as a giveaway.
These packs of precut strips could be used for many purposes really. There are four packages of 2" wide strips in log cabin sized lengths (2" to 10" long). Three of the packages each have enough strips to make twelve 9.5" blocks, like the ones shown here. The fourth package has enough for nine blocks, but I will also send along the three completed blocks. Please be aware that I was a bare beginner quilter at the time I sewed those blocks and they may not be sized perfectly, even with the paper foundation.
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If you have orphaned projects like this and would like to see them adopted too, then check this out:
Saturday June 6th, Cyndy (of Oh Scrap! fame) at Quilting is More Fun than Housework is having a brand new linky party she calls the Orphan Adoption Event. The Link up runs on Saturday and Sunday and is for giving away your oldies but goodies! This is the perfect opportunity to pass along your lonesome projects to someone who would love to have them and make something of them.
To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment here and tell me about your favorite charity quilting opportunity. Please make sure that I have a way to contact you! Check back before the giveaway ends, because I will let you know here if I am unable to reach you. Entries will be closed at midnight (UTC) on Thursday the 11th and I'll let the random number generator choose the winner on Friday, June 12th.
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In other exciting news: Cheryl, of Meadow Mist Designs has started her Midnight Mystery Quilt Along. It looks like it will be a lot of fun! I could not resist joining in, especially after hearing about what a good time people had with Cheryl's Foothills Mystery Quilt Along last year. I hope to see you there!
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Hi Lara. I just finished a charity quilt for our local women's shelter. I posted about on my blog as you already know.
ReplyDeleteHi Lara. What a nice gift to someone! I have made many charity quilts for a number of organizations, but my favorite one to donate to is Hanover ARC. Each year they have a silent auction to raise money for their activities and respite programs for people with special needs. I have donated a quilt to the auction for a number of years. :)
ReplyDeleteLovely fabric. I like Heartstring quilt Project on Yahoo groups as well as Project Linus. There are so many wonderful groups you can donate to. I am a good home.lol hehehehe
ReplyDeleteI knew this would happen Lara! I knew I would want to adopt and take home other people's projects. Thanks so much for being so generous and linking up this project. I am sure it will find a great home and it is going to make a beautiful quilt.
ReplyDeleteI love adopting other people's projects and I do quilt for charities. Our local guild makes a Breast Cancer Awareness Quilt for raffle, we make baby quilts for our local Community Baby Showers for new mothers in need, we make quilts for families who have lost their homes in fires. Our local community of quilters, which includes some new Amish ladies who have moved into the area, also makes quilts for our local Ruritan Club for raffle in order to support their civic projects, and finally at one time we made small, super-soft quilts for our State Police Troopers to carry in their vehicles so they can give them to a child that needs comfort from a tenuous situation or has to be removed from a home.
ReplyDeleteWow Lara. Those blocks are really beautiful! I understand having a lot on your plate, but I'm impressed you can let this go. I have a project that makes me shudder every time I think about it. I will have to check out Cyndy's linky party. It would be nice to just move it along to someone who might actually do something with it. (I'm not entering your giveaway -haven't made charity quilts yet- but I wanted to leave a comment.)
ReplyDeleteHope you decide to link up Colleen. I will have my post up Saturday morning and you can join in anytime over the weekend!
DeleteOh, so many charities! I've donated to Quilts of Valor, which is probably my favorite; giving to the men who defend our country's freedoms is one of the greatest honors I know. I've made Ronald McDonald quilts, given through my quilt guild. And I have a number to be quilted and then donated to Layers of Hope.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy picking up other people's unfinished projects. My favorite one so far has been exchange blocks that I picked up at an estate sale for a dollar. Every square was a little bit different in size, not to mention the varieties of unintended wonkiness! But I was able to construct a pleasing Amish-style lap quilt (that still needs to be quilted...). I have one project picked up at a garage sale last summer that I might just put on the giveaway linky party!
Whoever and whenever this Kaffe quilt gets finished...it will be gorgeous Lara! I love that Cynthia is having the Orphaned Block link ~ such a great idea! I think we all fall 'out of love' with a project every once in a while!
ReplyDeleteI like to make colorful, scrappy baby quilts for a hospital our guild supports. Also scrappy children's quilts for a center that cares for children that have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect. Another cause our quilt guild supports.
ReplyDeleteSometime I fall out of love with a project. When I do, I take it apart and use the fabric in other ways. Often orphan blocks end up as a row of blocks pieced into the backing of a quilt.
Love the fabrics and think it will make a lovely little quilt but I certainly don't need another project. My orphans would fill a good size home by now! Very kind of you to think of adopting this baby out and I hope she goes to a good home.
ReplyDeleteThese are great fabrics.
ReplyDeleteI have made three quilts that were donated at a silent auction for our local food ministry.
Also donated a quilted table runner to be auctioned at a fundraiser for our middle school.
Lara, this is the most beautiful giveaway I have seen so far! It reminds me that I had started some Kaffee Fassett houses blocks that I abandonned for a reason I forgot! I will think of a giveaway after the summer.
ReplyDeleteLast week I sent off a couple quilts to Layers of Hope as part of the Hands2Help quilt drive. This is my third or fourth year to participate in this wonderful effort. I also like to donate quilts locally to a crisis pregnancy center and to a hospice care facility. I make so many quilts that it's good to spread the quilty hugs around. Your giveaway is wonderful, I always think it's fun to play with other people's scraps or abandoned projects. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful project! I never did charity quilt, but this is one of my dreams, especially for babies.
ReplyDeletemine is my grand children, i have 24 and my great grands , i have 13 with another on the way
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful pattern. I love Kaffe Fassett. I've not yet done a charity quilt as I'm fairly new at quilting but it's definitely on my list, my mam does crazy amounts of charity knitting for hospitals x
ReplyDeleteThe small quilt group I am a member of has done some small baby quilts for a local police department. The police officers y give the blankets to the children that they are helping during their crisis. Also, my girlfriend and I have made a couple of QAYGO quilts for Project Linus. It is great to be able to give something that hopefully will give some comfort to the receiver. micki@2dogstudio.us
ReplyDeleteI love those blocks. They aren't in colors I usually use for myself, but I think that's what attracts me to them. I love to make charity quilts in colors that are out of my zone. My favorite quilting charity for quilts is Margaret's Hope Chest. They have several donation programs, but my favorite is A Mother's Hope, a program for mothers who are working through postpartum depression. It's unique in that it's a day program at a mental health center that the mothers attend with their babies. But the quilts are specifically for the mothers--to provide a quilty hug during therapy. I've made 4 quilts for them so far--all from fabrics that I won in giveaways. So if I win this giveaway, you know what I'll do with the blocks and fabric. : )
ReplyDeleteWonderful quilt blocks/project, love the colors. I make quilts for Project Linus, 16+ quilts per year. Could see this quilt going to one of the older children. Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a lovely orphan. Those oranges against the black are striking. You are going to make someone very happy to win this! How sweet!
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely Kaffe fabrics. I just finished up three quilts to donate to Happy Chemo through Sarah Craig's H2H annual charity campaign. This is my third year to participate. I also donate through my local quilt guild. Hope this fabric goes to a great home. It is too beautiful a project to languish.
ReplyDeleteI make and give quilts for charities a lot, Ronald McDonald house, project linus, neonatal and a bunch of us sent quilts to Oklahoma after the big tornado went through there a few years ago. So I would love to whip it up and give it to someone in need.
ReplyDeleteI would love to give a new home to your unfinished project. Kaffe Fassett fabrics are among my favorites and I would love to work these into a quilt for our guild's charity group.
ReplyDeleteForgot to add that the charity we make quilts for is a home for abused women and their children.
ReplyDeleteI would make it for a local fundraiser. Sometimes they do not sell for the amount I have in the quilt but goes to a good cause- usually someone going though Cancer. Thank you. sewspeciallady@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteFirst - don't add me to the drawing - second - oh man - its that a beautiful project!!! I love his fabrics - and now you made me add an idea to my bucket list!!! Good luck in sending it on ;-)
ReplyDeleteThese are gorgeous blocks! And the Log Cabin is on my quilting bucket list in short order. :) A few years ago, I started a little charity group doing a quilt auction every spring to benefit brain tumor research. (My daughter has been living with a brain tumor for the past 4.5 years.) I didn't do the auction this spring, but hope to do it again next year. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteWhat adorable blocks and a nice design you visualized. As for making quilts for charity I do 2 if not more per year. I belong to 2 guilds so each of them get a quilt and then I also do other projects for charity. My most cherished quilt story is the one that my 9 year old grand daughter made to give to the Mission of Hope, a Catholic based charity organization that adopted the people of Nicaragua to help ease the poverty there.
ReplyDeleteThe quilt is designed with a horse panel. She sewed it and with my help quilting it was finished and given in December 2014.
She actually won a Community Service Award through Youth Service of America for 2014 which involved that horse quilt that was on the horizon at the time, but also her other donations of quilting place mats for the "meals on wheels programs" in 2 New York counties, then by making rubber band bracelets which sold for $1-5 each that helped her raise money for the Vermont's Childrens' Hospital. I am so proud of that girl that my heart just swells when I relate this story.
It's very good of you to offer this kit for someone else charity, thanks!
Lol! I laughed when Cynthia said she has foundmore projects than she has to give away!! Your adoption is wonderful...someone is going to be a lucky winner for sure.
ReplyDeleteI love Kaffe fabrics, and these could make for a very enjoyable time working on another quilt for Project Linus. My sewing group does a fundraiser every year, and I do my own separately, to earn funds to support our quilting efforts for Linus, and any donations are quickly put to good use. Last year the dozen of us made over 200 quilts and blankets for Project Linus, and are on track this year to exceed that as long as we can get the materials! Your lovely set would definitely help us.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness 200 Project Linus quilts made by 12 people is amazing Suzan! I sure hope you check back here by Thursday, because it turns out you are a no-reply commenter and I have no way to contact you if you are the lucky winner in the random drawing on Friday.
DeleteThese would have been great for an LSU quilt. Someone will be lucky to receive these. Great idea to pass them along.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to finish this beautiful quilt project for a resident at a local nursing home. The residents love to have quilts on their beds! It surely brightens their day.
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What a beautiful project!! I have log cabins on my to do list. :) I am a newbie and have not made a quilt for charity yet, but plan to.
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Lara, I would love to finish this up for you. What total Eye Candy to work with!! I would be happy to send it, or bring it and have a visit finally, back to you finished allowing you to pick your favorite charity.
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What a great project! I would donate this for a teenager. Wouldn't they love those colors?
ReplyDeleteI make charity quilts for my quilt guild. These quilts go to the Women's Shelter and the Salvation Army christmas hampers.
ReplyDeleteSometimes God moves me to give a quilt anonymously to someone I know to show He cares. I have always drooled over kaffe Fassett fabric but have never bought it. Would love to win. Thanks for the opportunity.
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This quilt will be breathtaking once completed!!! Love those rich and vibrant colours!!! I'm living in a very small town and we aren't organized for charities of the quilting sort so any contributions to charities that I have been involved with are those from other provinces, or outside Canada. There is always a call and each year I contribute to a few if possible.
ReplyDeleteI've made quilts for several charities through my local quilt guild. We recently donated quilts to a foster care agency which distributes the quilts to foster children. For most of the children, that quilt is their only personal possession. Privately, I donated several quilts to the hospice facility that took such good care of my mom.
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I make quilts for our local Ronald McDonald House. Tiny NICU quilts for the families who weren't anticipating their babies being born so soon and didn't have quilts ready, and bigger quilts for family members who are far from home and need comfort or for older kids who are patients. I'm not a fan of McDonalds as a restaurant but the good they do as a haven for families at a time of crisis can't be measured. I try to give back a little bit, because they helped my sister and her family when my niece was born, thirty years ago.
ReplyDeleteI am finishing up two flannel quilts for two toddlers whose house was flooded recently. They have lost everything. Their mother is a friend of my youngest daughter. I realized 'mom' might need a quilt to to help through this tough time. Even with insurance, they will have to lay out a lot of money to replace items.
ReplyDeleteThere's a little boy in our area that has cerabal palsy ,(not sure I spelled that right )but quilts are sold to go towards his care.
ReplyDeleteOh Dear Dody... that is a very good reason to make a charity quilt.
DeleteI hope you check back and let me know how to contact you before Friday's drawing... Blogger didn't let me know you had commented, so I suspect you might have a yahoo email address.
I have made quilts for Foster children threw my Quilt Guild. Every Christmas we give several quilts to this group. If I should win you UFO could I keep it and I will make a different quilt for charities. I love the fabric. Thanks, Nancy
ReplyDeleteI haven't made a charity quilt yet. This would be the perfect opportunity.
ReplyDeleteWe donate quilts to our abused women's shelter actually 2 counties here in NC. Then in Jan we sew pillowcases for Children's Hosp and Hospice so the quild stays busy.
ReplyDeleteChris it is great to hear how much you sew for charity! Quilts can bring some real comfort during hard times. I hope you check back and let me know how to contact you before Friday's drawing... Blogger didn't let me know you had commented, so I suspect you might have a yahoo email address.
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This is lovely! I would love to continue this quilt! I have made lots of "Komforters for Kids" for my local quilt guild. We donate them to the police department and to Social Services. They give them to kids when they have to take them from a home. Many times they leave with nothing.
ReplyDeleteI hate to admit it, but I actually have a Kaffe Fasset UFO (although I'm not sure I can call it a UFO if all I did was buy the fabric). I'm not sure I'm ready to give it up yet, though. Maybe one day I'll get there.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing quilt! I like to donate to local hospitals & nursing homes
ReplyDeleteThank you Janna and those are great causes!
DeleteI hope you check back here by Thursday, because it turns out you are a no-reply commenter and I have no way to contact you if you are the lucky winner in the random drawing on Friday.
I've made small quilts for neonatal babies and also lap quilts for nursing home residents. :) I love the colors you chose.
ReplyDeleteThey are very cheerful and would brighten up a nursing home resident's room for sure.
DeleteI hope you check back here by Thursday, because it turns out you are a no-reply commenter and I have no way to contact you if you are the lucky winner in the random drawing on Friday.
It's a great start and I'd love to be included. I've had the opportunity to make several very small quilts for the Angel Baby program at our local hospital which are then given to parents of stillborn or deceased NICU infants. And, yes it is sad, but the parents are so grateful to have something soft and warm to wrap up their little one.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful UFO! I've made quilts for flood victims, battered women's shelter, a pillowcase for kids, and blocks to be added to a quilt for raising money for breast cancer research & Quilts of Valor. It's good to pay it forward.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly do pay it forward Celeste! Those are all such great causes!
DeleteI hope you check back here by Thursday, because it turns out you are a no-reply commenter and I have no way to contact you if you are the lucky winner in the random drawing on Friday.
I make quilt tops for charity for World of Charity Stitching. I also make bags and other gifts for them. (I don't finish the quilts, however, as this is done by one of our members who has a long-arm quilting machine. I'm working on one now, a cross stitched music theme and just finished two tops made with cross stitched spring-type squares.
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Peggy
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I make quilt tops for World of Charity Stitching where we donate to quilts and other gifts to children in a domestic violence shelter and to seniors in care facilities.
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Peggy
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I have such a pile of unfinished, Lara. I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't finish everything :-)
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These are great fabrics and I would love a chance to play with them. I make charity quilts for my local quilt guild which gives them to a halfway house for single mothers. Our guild (about 150 quilters) makes about 10 charity quilts a month and I am always impressed by the time and effort put into each one.
ReplyDeleteOoh, ooh, ooh this log cabin quilt will be so unique and pretty. I love your fabric selection and would have never thought to use such busy prints. Those prints will really make the quilt.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite quilting charity was the one my mother was involved in when she was alive it involved making small baby blankets for aids babies over she made hundreds to donate thank you for letting me share this stephquilts65@gmail.com
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