In 2019, the Silver Threads Quilt Guild in Fort Walton Beach held a block swap in a box event. The idea was for each participating guild member to get a box and put your own set of fabrics in it. Then each month, your box would be given to another member who would make a block for you out of your fabrics. This went on for 12 months and each month, you were to make the same block with the fabrics and put it back in the box. It was a lot of fun but when I was putting my box together, I just grabbed this set of older sunflower fabrics and when I got my box back, I knew I wasn't ever going to finish it up.
So, I've been following Jo Kramer's blog, https://www.joscountryjunction.com/cresco-ladies-quilts-2/
Jo has talked about the Cresco Ladies in Cresco Iowa as a group who sews tops for charity. And with the recent storm in Iowa that devastated their surrounding areas, the Cresco Ladies were busy making quilts for those affected. So I gathered up the blocks from the block swap and some other orphan blocks and fabrics that I had laying around and sent them to the Cresco Ladies. It felt good to know that I was supporting their efforts and lightening my load of unfinished projects.
Thank you Silver Threads Quilt guild for sewing the blocks! The Cresco Ladies made a few more blocks and here is the finished project!
That's a very pretty quilt!
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