Hands2Help 2020

For the 10th year, I am joining the Hands2Help Comfort Quilt Challenge.  You an read about all the great charities to choose from this year at Confessions of a Fabric Addict .  Sarah started and has hosted this great quilt drive for all 10 years: she is an amazing person!

Today is May 19th, I see that I started this post on March 12th, just before my world went to hell in a handbasket: Corona, I trumped you March 26th, with the death of my husband and my breast cancer mastectomy surgery on the very same day!

I have always said that quilting was my therapy and it continues to be my therapy.

I have also put my quilting aside, made and donated over a hundred masks.

In addition, my therapy consisted of defrosting the garage deep-freezer, cleaning out the entire garage, painting the spare bedroom, repeatedly mowing the lawn, planting the garden, setting up my drip system for my deck plants and getting my planters full of colorful flowers for summer.

Here is a stack of 8 Comfort Quilts for Hands 2 Help 2020 Quilts.

Boxed and will be ready to ship to Quilts of Compassion as soon as they are accepting deliveries.

 

 Ready to ship to Quilty Hugs for Happy Chemo.

These remaining 4 baby quilts will all be shipped to Little Lambs Foundation.

 

H2H 2019 #2

One more Hands 2 Help quilt finished and ready to send to Mercyful Quilts. Mercyful Quilts give quilts to people as they approach the end of life. Later the quilt goes with the family. I found these 12 purple blocks in a bag of fabrics I bought at a garage sale last summer. I think it is fitting that these blocks were made by a lady who was selling all her sewing supplies so she could enter an assisted living center. I think she might be pleased to know that her efforts are being passed along to another person in need of a "Quilty Hug."

Please visit Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict to see all the details and all the wonderful quilts that others have made for this great charity quilt challenge.

 This buttery yellow actually matched the yellow pansies on this print.

Lots of freehand quilting hides any perfections in the blocks.

This yummy flannel backing has violets and wild roses.

H2H 2019

The deadline had arrived for the Hands 2 Help Comfort Quilt Challenge.

Please visit Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict to see all the details and all the wonderful quilts that others have made for this great charity quilt challenge.

This construction themed quilt was sent to Em's Scrap Bag for Quilty Hugs for Happy Chemo at Em's Scrap Bag.

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These little quilts were sent to Jack's Basket:

  Celebrating babies born with Down Syndrome.

These are the cutest strips of fabric!  I paired these with matching polka dot jelly roll strips of Moda Grunge that I received from the H2H Challenge last year.

 Backed with soft flannel.

This little quilt is flannel front and back.

Made from scraps from several receiving blankets,

I had enough to make this fun coin quilt.

Elephants, lamas, and hedgehogs!

 I had one extra strip I put on the back.

I added this self binding receiving blanket to my box also.

These 3 went in the mail today to MN to Jack's Basket.

Head on over to Sarah's page to see all the generous quilters we have in our world: Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

H2H Quilt Challenge 2018

 Here are all my finished quilts for this H2H Challenge.

Winter weather kept hanging around here in Ohio, so I just kept quilting and digging through my scraps and leftover yardage from past quilts.  I had to add only 3 yards of new fabric!   

I sent these 3 to Little Lambs

Little Lambs #1

Little Lambs #2

Little Lambs #3

These 2 went to Happy Chemo

Happy Chemo #1

Happy Chemo #2

 Linking up for a progress report with 

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

There are 180 awesome quilters making charity quilts

for the 

One More H2H Quilt

Since my stash was totally depleted of kids themed fabrics; I found 9 cute fabrics (on sale no less) and bought a yard of each.

I already used 2 fabrics in these quilts...

...amazing what a yard can do by adding your stash fabrics.

Construction Quilt                                              Cowboy Quilt

....and then, yesterday, I finished a quilt with this fun little dinosaur panel and matching yardage.

I love how all the dinosaurs have a goofy smile.

The coordinating yardage has all the dinos labeled--and in smaller print, the meaning of their names.

The blue border around the panel and the outside orange border came from my stash.

38 x 42

I squeezed out just enough backing by adding a strip of the blue. 

I had enough blue for the binding too. 

Quilted it with some random diagonal wavy lines.

This will be donated to the Little Lambs Foundation 

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Hands 2 Help Charity Quilt Challenge 2018

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