Good Monday morning and Happy August, y'all! I'll get to my goals for the fresh week and shiny new month later in this post. First, I want to show you this beautiful Positivity quilt, pieced by Julie Kennedy of Julie's Quilts & Costumes, and quilted by Yours Truly:
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| 60 x 80 Positivity Quilt for Mercyful Quilts QAL |
"Positivity" is a FREE pattern from Preeti Harris of Sew Preeti Quilts, available here. Preeti and Bernie Kringel of Needle & Foot are currently sponsoring a QAL (quilt-along) using this pattern to create donation quilts for Bernie's Mercyful Quilts charity benefitting dying patients and their families at Mercy Hospital in Sacramento, California. Those participating in the QAL, which runs through September 5th, are encouraged to either ship their completed quilts to Bernie or else donate them to local charity. Although I didn't have time to piece a top for this effort, I was glad to collaborate with Julie in support of this worthy cause.
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| Positivity Quilt Pieced by Julie, Quilted by Me |
One of the things I love about Preeti's Positivity pattern is that, although there's nothing explicitly religious about the plus sign design to non-Christians, Christian patients and their loved ones will see the plus sign as a cross -- a reminder of the promise of resurrection, which makes this quilt both physically and spiritually comforting. I love the color palette Julie chose, too. The blue crosses/plusses against the warm neutral background fabrics is calm, soothing, and organic, like earth and sky and water.
