Quilts for Quake Survivors

All quilts are gone now!

TangerineSamurai — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:44:56 +0000

Just a short and sweet post notifying all of you that all remaining quilts listed on the site have been donated to Bradley Angle house today. More to come soon!

Thank you all for a wonderful community fundraiser that ended up touching three organizations – Patchwork Tsushin, Mercy Corps and Bradley Angle.

Love,

Daniela & Susan

Last six quilts!

Susan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:00:46 +0000

Thank you to everyone who has donated this week and chosen a quilt – we are so thrilled! These quilts are still available for a $150 donation to Mercy Corps – including the brand-new #6 in the collage, Michelle Freedman’s original Cat’s Game quilt!:

1. Batique 1 – 020, 2. Eclectic Asian – 017, 3. Block of the Month – 014, 4. Friendly haze – 004, 5. asian delight – 006, 6. Michelle Freedman’s Cat’s Game quilt – 022

If you are interested, please go to our page on the Mercy Corps website and donate $150 (shipping is on us). You can donate to ANY cause you’d like the money to go to, not just Japan. Just state your preferred cause in the subject line. Mercy Corps will distribute the funds according to your specifications on their back end. Then you can send an email to quiltsforquakesurvivors@gmail.com with the donation confirmation number and the number of the quilt and your shipping address. We will send you a confirmation email and ship the quilt within 48 hours via USPS. Also – if you’ve already donated $150 or more for end of year giving, you can send us the donor number and we’ll gladly send you a quilt as a thank-you.

After this week, we’ll donate any remaining quilts to Bradley-Angle House, a shelter here in Portland, for the women and children there. Thank you to everyone who has supported QfQ, and happy new year!

Two more quilts sold!

TangerineSamurai — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:18:10 +0000

We are so thrilled that our Mercy Corps fundraiser is up to $2825! These are the QfQ quilts that are still available…

1. Batique 1 – 020, 2. Eclectic Asian – 017, 3. Block of the Month – 014, 4. Denise Delight – 015, 5. Friendly haze – 004, 6. asian delight – 006

These 6 quilts shown above are still up for sale through donation of $150 or more.

Update: Denise Delight (#4 in the mosiac above) is SOLD.

Update: this new quilt, Kaleidoscope, is also available! Community-pieced and quilted by Mims. Please check out all four photos and their descriptions for a more detailed look at this quilt.

Two more quilts just sold through donation to our Mercy Corps fundraiser here.

caramel and chocolate as well as

geo-metrics

just sold today and are now no longer available.

If you are interested, please go to our page on the Mercy Corps website and donate $150 (shipping is on us). You can donate to ANY cause you’d like the money to go to, not just Japan., through our page here. Just state your preferred cause in the subject line. Mercy Corps will distribute the funds according to your specifications on their back end. Then you can send an email to quiltsforquakesurvivors@gmail.com with the donation confirmation number and the number of the quilt and your shipping address. We will send you a confirmation email and ship the quilt within 48 hours via USPS. Also – if you’ve already donated $150 or more for end of year giving, you can send us the donor number and we’ll gladly send you a quilt as a thank-you.

The QfQ quilts will all be available through January 5, then we will donate the remaining ones to Bradley-Angle House for the women and children there.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything you’ve done for Japan and Mercy Corps.

Love,

Susan + Daniela

The remaining quilts for our Mercy Corps Fundraiser

TangerineSamurai — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:28:48 +0000

1. Batique 01, 2. QfQ surprise bag quilt 022, 3. Eclectic Asian – 017, 4. Block of the Month – 014, 5. Denise Delight – 015, 6. Friendly haze – 004, 7. geo-metrics – 008 – SOLD, 8. asian delight – 006, 9. Batique 020, 10. QfQ: Caramel and chocolate – 002 – SOLD!

Hello lovely friends and supporters!

As we are wrapping up our fundraising efforts for Mercy Corps and getting ready to donate to Bradley-Angle House for women and children, we have gotten a lot of questions about which quilts exactly are still available.

As of yesterday, following quilts got a wonderful home:

Orange and yellow

Block of the month 2

Pretty by Hand
(you should really read the story behind this quilt: it’s been made by Kristyne quilted by Monika)

Traditional Blue and Brown

…and three more that will be chosen out of the pool above. There is not much time left!

The QfQ quilts will all be available through January 5, then we will donate the remaining ones to Bradley-Angle House for the women and children there.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything you’ve done for Japan and Mercy Corps.

Love,

Susan + Daniela

End of year giving to Mercy Corps and winding down QfQ

Susan — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:09:22 +0000

Hello lovely QfQ supporters!

We are closing in on the end of 2011 and with it, the end of our QfQ fundraiser for Mercy Corps. After this next week of fundraising, we will donate the remaining quilts to Bradley-Angle House, a shelter here in Portland that serves women and children in need. Thank you more than we can say for the beautiful support – to everyone who donated fabric, pieced blocks, sashed tops, basted, quilted, tied, and bound these quilts. So many of you put your hearts into these quilts – thank you so much!

After we sent 30 of our community-made quilts to Japan in April,

we’ve raised $2150 (and counting) for Mercy Corps. One of the most wonderful moments of our QfQ experience was meeting Minda, an amazing Mercy Corps fundraiser, who purchased a beautiful set of quilts with a generous donation from her and her mother. Here are two of our favorites that she chose!

We still have a beautiful collection of quilts for sale to benefit Mercy Corps. Update: 019 is SOLD to Allison, thank you so much, Allison! Here is a new quilt, with a couple more to come this week as we round them up from the last quilters – Block of the Month 3 – 019! It was sashed from block-of-the-month blocks donated by Cool Cottons,

backed in white, gorgeously long-arm quilted by Nancy Stovall in an all-over circles and spokes pattern,

and machine-bound by Susan with orange and hot pink binding. It measures about 58″ x 45″.

If you are considering donating $150 (or more) to Mercy Corps this week as part of your 2011 charitable giving, or already have, we would love to send you a quilt from the group remaining in thanks for your donation. Here’s how it works:

The QfQ quilts will all be available through January 5, then we will donate the remaining ones to Bradley-Angle House for the women and children there.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything you’ve done for Japan and Mercy Corps.

Love,

Susan + Daniela

Block of the month 2 – 018

TangerineSamurai — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:17:01 +0000

This quilt is a delightful showcase of patchworking possibilities. The blocks were donated from Cool Cottons, and pieced at one of our many bees (yet I can’t remember!) If you have been working on this beauty – please let us know, we’d love to include you in this discription!

It’s backed with donated yardage, quilted in a simple cross pattern and finally hand bound.

Dimensions: 44″ x 58.5″

If you are interested in purchasing this quilts posted so far. Please go to our Mercy Corps Japan fundraising site and donate $150 (shipping is on us). Through the site you can donate to ANY cause you’d like the money to go to. Just state your preferred cause in the subject line. Mercy Corps will distribute the funds according to your specifications on their back end. Then send an email to quiltsforquakesurvivors@gmail.com with the donation confirmation number and the number of the quilt – in this case 018 – and your shipping address. We will send you a confirmation email and ship the quilt within 48 hours via USPS.

Love,

Susan + Daniela

Eclectic Asian – 017

TangerineSamurai — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:06:00 +0000

This eclectic collection of typical log-cabin-blocks has been created completely with donated fabric strips and finished blocks. The blocks were pieced together and sashed at the Sew On quilting bee in may, with a turquoise Asian jacquard fabric.

Susan machine bound the quilt using a bias tape method she explains in detail in her book. Here she is showing off the fruit of her labor at the last sewing bee at Staver Locomotive.

Dimensions: 42.5″ x 55″

If you are interested in purchasing this quilts posted so far. Please go to our Mercy Corps Japan fundraising site and donate $150 (shipping is on us). Through the site you can donate to ANY cause you’d like the money to go to. Just state your preferred cause in the subject line. Mercy Corps will distribute the funds according to your specifications on their back end. Then send an email to quiltsforquakesurvivors@gmail.com with the donation confirmation number and the number of the quilt – in this case 017 – and your shipping address. We will send you a confirmation email and ship the quilt within 48 hours via USPS.

Love,

Susan + Daniela

Orange and Yellow – 016

TangerineSamurai — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:49:32 +0000

Orange and Yellow has a beautiful color scheme that is joyful and friendly. the blocks were donated, pieced at the Cool Cottons bee way back in may. Sashed and backed with donated yardage and sandwiched with a lofty, warm poly fill batting. It was quilted with a block pattern at Modern Domestic. And finally hand bound.

This quilt was also part of the showcase at the Museum for Contemporary Craft in Portland. It’s the one on the very far left!

Dimensions: 42″ x 43″

If you are interested in purchasing this quilts posted so far. Please go to our Mercy Corps Japan fundraising site and donate $150 (shipping is on us). Through the site you can donate to ANY cause you’d like the money to go to. Just state your preferred cause in the subject line. Mercy Corps will distribute the funds according to your specifications on their back end. Then send an email to quiltsforquakesurvivors@gmail.com with the donation confirmation number and the number of the quilt – in this case 016 – and your shipping address. We will send you a confirmation email and ship the quilt within 48 hours via USPS.

Love,

Susan + Daniela

Denise Delight – 015

TangerineSamurai — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:27:29 +0000

This quilt has been donated and pieced by Denise who came to many of our quilting bees. The color and fabric scheme is bold, colorfull and quirky. The quilt was part of a QfQ showcase at the Museum of Contemporary Craft here in Portland. Check out the photo below! The back sheet of this quilt is donated flannel from Bolt.

Dimensions: 40.5″ x 51.5″

If you are interested in purchasing this quilts posted so far. Please go to our Mercy Corps Japan fundraising site and donate $150 (shipping is on us). Through the site you can donate to ANY cause you’d like the money to go to. Just state your preferred cause in the subject line. Mercy Corps will distribute the funds according to your specifications on their back end. Then send an email to quiltsforquakesurvivors@gmail.com with the donation confirmation number and the number of the quilt – in this case 015 – and your shipping address. We will send you a confirmation email and ship the quilt within 48 hours via USPS.

Love,

Susan + Daniela

Block of the Month 1 – 014

TangerineSamurai — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:16:04 +0000

The source of these beautiful star shaped quilt blocks is Cool Cottons! It’s their block of the month quilt. One of the quilting classes they teach at their dangerously well stocked store. It was pieced at one of our quilting bees, backed with donated yardage and finally quilted expertly on a long arm machine by Nancy Stovall of Just Quilting.

Dimensions: 47.5″ x 46″

If you are interested in purchasing this quilts posted so far. Please go to our Mercy Corps Japan fundraising site and donate $100 due to the smaller dimensions (shipping is on us). Through the site you can donate to ANY cause you’d like the money to go to. Just state your preferred cause in the subject line. Mercy Corps will distribute the funds according to your specifications on their back end. Then send an email to quiltsforquakesurvivors@gmail.com with the donation confirmation number and the number of the quilt – in this case 014 – and your shipping address. We will send you a confirmation email and ship the quilt within 48 hours via USPS.

Love,

Susan + Daniela