I have the best quilty friends.
Huge hearts, sometimes broken, that know the meaning of giving.
How to pay it forward…in times that’s aren’t easy!
I say that because this year one of them donated
SEW MUCH FABRIC to CHARITY!
Her name, Susan Blalock.
This photo was at a party I hosted a few years ago.
Susan recently downsized from a home
she shared with her husband for 42 years.
In 2023 she lost her husband and now resides in a condo.
She asked me if I could help her find the fabrics new homes.
OF COURSE! I can't imagine how overwhelming her
life was during this time. She not only lost her husband to Parkinson’s
but after years if living him and caregiving she
sold the home they shared home and
had no where to keep years and years of fabric hoarding.
I was happy to help her.
She made 3 trips to my home,
with several bags of fabric in each trip.
Each time my porch looked beautiful.
I sorted thru all this and divided the treasures for different charities.
If fabric was t suited to quikting I donated to
A thrift store, who feeds the community, thru their sales
Some went to friends who also do charity sewing.
Look at all these batiks.
Over 100 FQs ended up at Stitching Sisters.
And over 100 traditional print FQs
With Susan' permission I kept a few things back for
my two nieces who are learning to quilt. Christmas prints
are usually not appropriate for charity donations.
I loaded a cart in Joanne's Fabric and Craft Store
with mostly children's novelty prints.
Those fabrics went to Project Linus!
She had a lot of unfinished blocks in the fabrics she donated.
I decided to finish them and make a quilt for charity.
This finished top will go to Stitching Sisters.
Sew its SUSANS BATIKS that will warm
a cancer patient when the quilt reaches their lap.
I had enough fabric for the top, backing and binding.
Susan doesn't know that I actually took some of her
donations and made her a quilt top. She had started this work
and I found a way to finish it.
I now have some backing sew I think I’ll quilt it first her before she gets it back.
It’s the least I could do...I think she'll be very surprised.
Oh my what a treasure Susan gave you and helped many others in the process. That is so nice you are going to give her back a finish from her very own stash!
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