Quilt Number One

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Quilt Number One

Okay, so I finished a quilt and as we had discussed as a group - I tried to cut up the scraps and stuff the blocks. I apparently put too much in each one as the entire thing was so heavy! It would be a great way to make a mattress though.

Photo of very puffy blocks!

Finished quilt notice the lumps...

Quilt #1 finished

So I unpicked the stitching and cut the scraps even smaller so I could put less in each one. Theoretically this was a good idea but it seems that the scraps clump together making the quilt kind of lumpy. Warm but lumpy.

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Sewing Patches, Sowing Progress is a social action project run by a group of Faculty of Education students. It aims to combine the local and global community through sewing and donating. This is done by taking donated fabric, cutting squares and creating quilts. People are able to donate money and through their donation they are able to ‘buy’ a quilt square. When people ‘buy’ a quilt square the group commits to making that square. When a whole quilt is ‘bought’ the group makes a quilt and the quilts are then in turn donated to the local homeless. The money that is donated is given to a local NGO, Drombaya, which is a microfinance organization that gives microloans to those in need, in Cameroon. The quilts help in Ottawa, the money helps in Africa; a local and global connection.