What is Sew Generous?
It is an online Charity Quilting Bee (CQB) that gives quilters the chance to use our talents, love of colour and fabric to make blocks or quilts using fabrics from our own stashes to bring joy to young children and teenagers going through very hard and trying treatments in the Oncology Clinic at Westmead's Children Hospital.
Sew Generous now has it's very own blog which can be found here.
Sew Generous now has it's very own blog which can be found here.
- To make quilts for Westmead Children’s Hospital
- To make quilts for boys and girls
- To make quilts lap size or twin size
- To make a minimum of 8 quilts a year - many more if possible
- To hand deliver them to the Oncology department when we have 4 or more quilts.
How We Will Achieve Our Goal (donations from quilters all over, everywhere)
- send any orphan blocks any size, colour or design
- make any of the suggested blocks (see below)
- send in any unfinished quilt top with or without any extra fabric to go with it
- send in any completed quilt tops that you no longer want
- make a completed quilt top in lap or twin size and send in
- send in any completed quilts for immediate donation
- send in any spare/extra batting
- send in any fabric to use for backing
- send in any premade binding strips of 2.5”
- possibly to have a sew-in once a year to mass produce quilts for donation hopefully in time for Christmas
Where to Send any of the Above
Suzanne Cappello
c/o Sew Generous
PO Box 1191
Burwood Nth NSW 2143
Australia
How to communicate with Sew Generous
Suzanne Cappello E: sewgenerous@quiltsewscrap.com.au
Effie Steneker E: effie@ecreations.com.au
Flickr Group: Sew Generous - http://www.flickr.com/groups/1662938@N21/
Or send correspondence to above address.
Size of Quilts to be made
lap size: between 52″ – 68″ (132cm x 173cm) wide and 52″ – 78″ (132cm x 198cm) long.
twin size: between 64″ – 72″ (163cm x 183cm) wide and 86″ – 96″ (218cm x 244cm) long
What Blocks Can I make (these are only suggestions, you can make anything you want)
- Charity crosses - tutorial found at Moda Bake Shop here
- nine patch or disappearing nine patch 12.5” unfinished (a tutorial to follow)
- cracker blocks - a tutorial found here (sew 4 together to make a 12.5” unfinished block
- 6.5” unfinished pinwheel block individual blocks or sewn in groups of 4 (a tutorial to follow)
- Bento Box blocks (a tutorial to follow)
What Happens to the Blocks once they are received by Sew Generous
- like blocks will be grouped and when there is enough to make a quilt top it will be sewn together (sashing or borders may be added), it will be quilted, bound and delivered.
- unfinished quilt tops will be finished, quilted, bound and delivered
- ready done quilts will be delivered with the next delivery of quilts
How Will I know if my blocks have been made into a quilt and delivered
- a flickr group found here has been created to document all the quilts that will be made and delivered quilts will be noted
- you will be able to add pictures of your donation (whether it is blocks, tops, quilts, batting, backing) to the web site to keep track and communicate with Sew Generous.
- you will be able to discuss with other generous quilters as well.
