More Quilts4Hope

Unexpectedly, I had the privilege of sharing some Starbucks coffee with a woman I've been wanting to meet for some time now! Her name is Chantal and she is the founder of New Hope Homes in Rwanda, the home for orphaned and abandoned children where the Quilts4Hope projects were sent in July. This evening, Sara Groves, a Christian recording artist, is performing a benefit concert at my church to raise money toward building another house for ten more children and their caretakers. Chantal will be taking three more quilts home to Rwanda with her for the last three little ones who have come to live at New Hope Homes. I thought that you might like to see two of them before Chantal packs them away in her suitcase.

This  picture does not do justice to the beautiful colors Vicki used to create this striking strip quilt.  The black fabric is perfect for an African quilt with it's bright, stylized horse designs. I love the quilting she did on the borders.

I dug into my bin of 2.5 inch strips to create this bright scrap quilt using a Moda Bake Shop pattern called Random Reflections by Freckled Whimsy. The pattern calls for using a jelly roll but it was easy to substitute my precut strips and some Kona yardage I had on hand. I even found a length of "doggy" fabric for the backing and leftover binding in royal blue.

 Tightly spaced loopy quilting looks so wrinkly good when it's washed and dried, I think!

Maelie thought she might want to take the quilt home with her, but I told her that no, she already had a quilt from Lolly.