For Children By Children

Fifteen grade school and middle school age students each learned how to make a quilt block that was assembled into a wonderful quilt. It will soon be in the hands of a young person about their age in Rwanda. The students are all part of a home school program called Classical Pathways in the Kansas City area. History and geography lessons about Rwanda were studied along side the sewing project.

My sweet friend, Vicki K., whose daughter was part of the class, helped the students with fabric selection and taught them the basics of making a nine-patch block. She later put the blocks all together into this fabulous African themed quilt.

One of the blocks features a Bible verse written in the native language of Rwanda.

Vicki found a fun giraffe print for the backing which coordinates so well with the blocks on the front. Because of the colors, I guess, I visualize a little boy getting this quilt for his bed.

And for a little girl, maybe, Vicki made another quilt in tropical colors and flowers. The design is one that she came up with on her own using fabric donated by her sister-in-law  who wanted to do something to help. Vicki's daughter, Kayla,  also did some of the sewing, so it's a real family project!

I love the brown background theme-fabric which set the tone for the color scheme.

The last quilt going to the orphanage this time is one that I made and showed you a few months ago, Vegetable Soup. As with most of the charity quilts that I make, I used scraps from other quilts as a leader/ender project.

I can't help myself and will post a few more pictures of all 8 quilts together tomorrow.