Downy Quilts for Kids Projects

I have been busy these last few days.  I was truckin' my mom's trailer up to Loveland and hangin' with the fam!  Beautiful weather and gorgeous blue skies!  The wind in not favorable tho!

I was watching television one day and a commercial came on sponsored by Downy fabric softener.   It is called Downy Quilts for Kids.  It made me want to quilt.  I had quilted before, mostly large applique blankets tied with yarn.  I have been doing this since 1998.  Quilting but not true quilting with piecing and quilting layers together.  I requested a kit from their website and started getting to it.  I used my Singer 1862 beast of a machine.  It is from the 1980's.  Great machine and will sew through anything.  I purchased a walking foot from a local shop downtown that has recently shut it doors :(.  I was working on the quilts and I was loving it.  I was looking at some newer sewing machines that were especially made for quilting.  My wonderful husband suggested that I go to a store in Pueblo called Creative Sewing Design, http://www.creativelysew.com/.  They sell Janome and Bernina machines.  I test drove a Janome 6600 and I fell in love.  I called Dan from the parking lot and he said "Get it"!!!!  Yeah!  It has a built in walking foot system with loads of great stitches.  Now I was really sewing!  I finished these two projects for the Quilt for Kids program.

I joined the local quilt guild http://www.royalgorgequiltcouncil.org.futuresite.register.com/ and promoted the Quilts for Kids program.  A number of really great ladies donated some time and quilts to the cause too!  They are greatly in need of boys quilts now so I think it's time I do some more quilting for the kids.


Here is the link:  http://www.quiltsforkids.org/.  If you like to quilt look into quilting some quilts for some sick kiddos.  If you can't quilt, help out the people that send out material and send quilts to hospitals.  Happy stitching!