Quilt SOS – The Journey to Hestia. Last week, we finally managed to personally deliver the Quilt SOS quilts to Hestia in Croydon. The wonderful Alice Caroline customers and staff have been making beautiful quilts for us to donate to the charity Hestia. Hestia are based in and around London …
Last week, one of our amazing customers, Bridget Thorn brought in these beautiful quilts for our Quilt SOS project. Bridget has been a wonderful supporter of our Quilt SOS project so I thought it would be great to find out about her quilting and sewing history. How did …
We’ve recently arrived back from Latvia to deliver the Quilt SOS quilts to the children of the SOS Children’s Village in Islice. Below is our story of the trip. We took 65 beautiful quilts, made by our lovely customers, and personally delivered them to the children. Each year we …
It’s finally here – Quilt SOS 2019. For those of you who don’t know anything about the project, each year we team up with the wonderful charity SOS Children’s Villages to take beautiful hand made quilts to the children of a whole village. 2019 will be our fourth year of …
Anna and I have just returned from Poland and are delighted to be able to share our story with you. All 66 wonderful quilts have now been delivered to a child in the Children’s SOS Village of Krasnik, south of Warsaw in Poland. Tuesday 20th November 2018 We started …
One of my customers Tracy Aplin has made this Beautiful Quilt for the Quilt SOS project. She wanted to make a quilt using my exclusives. Yes I thought! Here it is. Gosh I really love the use of plain colours alongside the delicate tones of the exclusives. Tracy hand pieced …
It was a great moment to see the Beautiful Quilt Display at the Festival of Quilts recently. The Festival of Quilts kindly agreed to hang the SOS Quilts to showcase the charity project to their visitors. Several of the ‘makers of the quilts’ came to visit their quilts as well …
Liberty Quilts are arriving! Everyone in the studio gets really excited when a quilt sized parcel arrives. We eagerly sign for the precious cargo and then carefully (trying really hard not to tear anything on the way in) unwrap the quilt. For those of you who don’t know, the lovely …
I thought that you might like some Liberty Quilt SOS Progress news for 2018. I launched our 2018 project back in January and, so far its going really well. Our lovely Alice Caroline customers have already pledged over 40 quilts. We need 66 quilts in total so are getting close! …
I’m really excited to announce that Quilt SOS 2018 is here! We are now in the third year of the project and it’s going from strength to strength. Our new village is Kraśnik in Poland where 66 children currently live. This means we need to make 66 quilts! I am …