Blog love: Blue's Quilt at WiseCricket

Last night I had a quick look at some of the Sew Mama Sew! giveaways (I have been entering blog giveaways for a year now and have not won anything yet...) and found the sweetest story. On the blog WiseCricket, a 7 year old girl is making a quilt for charity by collecting sponsors at $10 a square (she is in America but I just paid by paypal - love paypal!).

My daughter is only 4 but I hope she will one day be this empathetic and industrious - check it out here.

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Crafters Donate Again - Pike River & Queensland

The generosity of crafters shouldn't come as a surprise, but sometimes it still takes my breath away - last week I heard about some amazing quilters who collected heart squares for Pike River families and have been swamped with 7500 squares!

They were hoping to make a quilt for each family but can now make one for each family member and send any spares to Australian quilters for the flood families. You can read all about it on Shirley Goodwin's blog. I heard her speaking on the radio to Marcus Lush and it was so moving to hear about quilts being sent  as a physically comforting donation, and a show of support and love, in addition to all the money that has been raised.

While I was getting this post together I also found this article on stuff.co.nz with video of the lovely ladies sewing all these squares together, have a look, the quilts are really beautiful.

If you are wondering how to help with Queensland flood relief efforts, one of our favourite Australian blogs Meet me at Mike's  has a round-up of some amazing projects, including quilts, auctions and donations.

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My Creative Space - The best robot quilt in the universe

(Ok so this is actually my mum's creative space but she doesn't blog and I did kind of help with the design...)

I am very proud to show off to this beautiful quilt my mum has just finished for my son's first birthday. It is only her second quilt and her first applique project, and I love it!

The bedroom is still in progress as we recently moved house, but will have a robot and space theme - so cute for little boys (and ties in with Dad's Star Wars memorabilia too!) When we started looking for robot and space fabrics we couldn't find anything we really liked so mum decided she would have to design her own robots, how gorgeous are they?

Towards the end of the project we found this amazing space print with tiny spaceships and spacemen (from Cushla's in Devonport), which tied the appliques and the denim borders together.

For more cool projects, check out www.kootoyoo.com each Thursday.

p.s. If you have never had a look at www.spoonflower.com, it is an amazing site where you can design your own fabric (just like last week's Project Runway!) They now have heaps of robot prints after running a contest for them, link is here

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