Dear Friends and crafters across the globe – I am organising a quilt block drive for a project very near to my heart and to my family. With a nephew with Cystic Fibrosis and a mother-in-law involved in the CF foundation in Australia, I have been thinking of a project that I could organise to help out. The 65 Roses quilt is that project. 65 roses day is named after a folklore story – and raises awareness of Cystic Fibrosis.

Would you like to make a block and send to me to be used in this quilt? All the details and the pattern can be downloaded from THIS PDF – the pdf also has 2 rose applique designs and 3 rose embroidery designs – however you can use your own design as well.

Its a simple block, comprised of 4xfive inch charm squares – one of which you will embroider/applique a rose design onto, the other three squares can be comprised of vintage/found/floral bits of lovely fabric – you can make one block or more and send to me to be made up into the 65 roses quilt.

The quilt – comprised of 65 blocks will be auctioned at the CF Australia annual gala auction event in Canberra in September 2010.

Please contact me with any questions [whipup at gmail.com] – and I will be keeping whipup posted on progress on this project.

PS. If you want to take this idea and run with it – using this pattern to make a community quilt for your local CF foundation then please do – would love if it if you told me about your project – but there is no obligation to do so … ADD YOUR IMAGES to the 65 roses quilt flickr group.

pps. you can download the graphic and link to this post if you would like to help promote this effort.

Must be your own design, entries close 27 November 2009. Link to competition details.

Join Lark books fun quilting contest – quilters have to incorporate 3 of 5 preselected elements: bird/s, silver, mountains, repurposed fabric, and beads – here is more information …

A while ago Kirsty from Kootoyoo put a call out on her blog for participants in a redwork quilt project. I signed up and went about designing and finishing my square. At the time I didn’t give a lot of thought to the other participants, if I’m honest. But then I saw the finished piece and the website that Kirsty had put together and I was blown away. It’s a stunning collaboration and I wish I could have been there in person to see it. Congrats to Kirsty and the other participants. Link to The Quilt Project.

From The Quilt Project blog:

An online community friendship quilt made up of 66 squares.

A modern twist on traditional redwork – participants were asked to “work a square in red”.

After hours of handwork by each of the participants the squares were posted to Melbourne where they were photographed & assembled into a temporary quilt.

Displayed for one night the quilt squares will now be returned to their creators or swapped.

The Quilt Project is a permanent record for everyone to enjoy.

“AdDress Your Heart” Design Contest: Between now and November 6, enter your dress design to win: The winner and his/her heart-health hero will have the opportunity to celebrate American Heart Month with Tim Gunn on the red carpet of the Woman’s Day Red Dress Awards in February. With each vote online, Campbell will make a $1 donation to the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement (up to $625,000).

To enter: share as story (250 words or less), about a heart-health hero and how you and/or your heart-health hero takes steps to live a heart-healthy lifestyle. Upload an original red dress sketch that incorporates the use of Campbell brand – more details here.

Dear fellow quilters/crafters
Your quilting story could be featured in an upcoming quilt book I am researching (not due for release until 2011). The book will touch on community and quilting and I would love to hear from you.

Please email me whipup[at]gmail.com if you have ever…
1. made quilts for charity
2. organised a quilt drive for your local community/church or larger organisation
3. participated in or organised a quilt swap, (or quilt block swap), virtual quilting bee or quilt-a-long
4. belonged to an ‘in person’ quilting group where you get together regularly to quilt
5. made or organised a community quilt / friendship quilt

I would love to hear your stories – there are no boundaries on age or location – wherever you live, whoever you are – I want to hear from you. Email me telling the where and when of your quilting project and I will follow up with further questions.
thanks so much for your help.

Kathreen

Lovely! Link to freebie.

Get your craft on and support New Zealand’s handmade revolution, with free gift bags for the first 100 people through the door, and free make-and-do activities all day long. Saturday 24 October 11am-3pm at the New Dowse.

I love the colour wheel and understanding how colour works is a big step in understanding how to create visual art that says what you want it to say. There is a history of the colour wheel located online here and wikipedia has a good run down too, and for quilters Maria Peagler’s color mastery might be for you – you can download a pdf here to create your own color wheel – so if you want to know more these are good places to start.

Here are some gorgeous colour wheels

1. Goethe’s colour wheel from his 1810 Theory of Colours

2. Narangkar Glover’s needlepoint colour wheel

3. Purl bee quilted colour wheel

This month Sew,Mama,Sew are hosting scrap buster projects. There’s also a competition. Get on over and check it out. Link to Sew,Mama,Sew.