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Quilt SOS Visit to The SOS Children’s Village of Islice

November 28, 2019 by Alice Caroline

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 choose a village run by the international charity SOS Children’s Villages. We then coordinate the making of enough quilts so that every child in the village receives a beautiful hand-made gift of a quilt. We are always overwhelmed by the loving generosity of our customers, a few made multiple quilts …

Quilt SOS 2019 is Here

June 3, 2019March 26, 2019 by Alice Caroline

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 supporting SOS Children’s Villages. We have previously taken quilts to the children in Hemeius (Romania), Vilnius (Lithuania), and Krasnik (Poland) – sending a total of 197 handcrafted, unique and cosy quilts that the children treasure for years to come. This year, we will be taking quilts for all 60 children …

SOS Quilts Arrive in Poland

December 6, 2018November 28, 2018 by Alice Caroline

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 out from the Alice Caroline studio with 5 huge (and really heavy) bags of quilts which had been vacuum packed in order to fit them into the bag sizes we had. Getting the bags to the check in desk was quite a task. Bristol airport now charges for trolleys and …

A Beautiful Quilt – using Alice Caroline Exclusives

October 18, 2018October 26, 2018 by Alice Caroline

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 the quilt top using a pattern by Judy Newman called Emma Mary. It comes in templates making it easy to cut with a rotary cuter and hand sew. Here’s Tracy’s work in progress. She really enjoyed making it but also says that she wants to make it again in a …

Beautiful Quilt Display

June 12, 2019September 7, 2018 by Alice Caroline

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 as our stand. I managed to take 2 minutes out from the hectic stand to have a quick photo with some of the quilts. Each quilt was really nicely labelled with the designers statement and inspiration for the quilt. The Festival of Quilts attracts thousands of visitors to the show …

Liberty Quilts Are Arriving!

October 11, 2018June 22, 2018 by Alice Caroline

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 Alice Caroline customers have been busily making quilts for our Quilt SOS project. This beautiful light and dark blue squares quilt was made by Kay Edwards using the Pennsylvanian (or Irish chain) block. It’s beautifully crafted and so accurately sewn. The dark blue gives a strong frame to …

Liberty Quilt SOS Progress

June 12, 2019April 27, 2018 by Alice Caroline

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! Some of the quilters have sent pictures of their quilt progress and I would like to share these with you. These are not finished quilts but you can see how fabulous they are going to be. I’ve been sent some rather lovely pictures from the ‘Lewes Sewing Bees’. They have …

Quilt SOS 2018 – it’s here!

June 12, 2019January 26, 2018 by Alice Caroline

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 super excited to also let you know that some of the beautiful work from this years’ project will be on display at ‘The Festival of Quilts’ in August 2018. For those of you who don’t know, I started the Quilt SOS project in 2016 to give quilts to children in …

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Beautiful Boy Quilts

October 15, 2018December 15, 2017 by Alice Caroline

Before we took the Quilt SOS quilts off to Lithuania, we took some photographs of these beautiful boy quilts. This animal quilt is so sweet. Made by Margaret Lupton, I love the design. Mr Hedgehog and Mr badger are my favourites. I absolutely love seeing the amazing quilts arrive at the studio. We all get very excited when the parcels arrive. The patterns for the animals (except badger) are taken from an Elizabeth Hartman design called Fancy Forrest. We put all of the boy quilts together as we had such a wonderful number of them this year. Many of these …

SOS Quilts Arrive in Lithuania

June 12, 2019November 20, 2017 by Alice Caroline

SOS Quilts arrive finally in Vilnius, Lithuania. We have just returned from Vilnius in Lithuania to deliver your beautiful SOS Quilts to the children there, and are excited to tell you the story of the trip. If this is the first time you’ve heard about this project before – click here for more information. The Journey We started the day at 2am on Monday to get to the airport in time for a 6.30am flight. It turned out that we had plenty of time (this is unusual for us in the Alice Caroline studio but it seems that that no …