Quilts for Ukraine

 Since April, we have been busy making quilts for Ukraine refugees.  A friend of mine was collecting quilts to send to a local Ukrainian center and my grandkids came over several times to make a quilt top.  We raided my extensive I spy squares and made disappearing 9 patch blocks.  The kids had a lot of fun and it was amazing what they came up with!

 Kara and Aiden can over first.  Aiden had fun choosing the prints and coloured blocks and Kara sewed up the 9 patches.  Grandma did the cutting and the quilting.

 

Charity and Benny came a week later and made another top.  Benny learned how to press with a real iron and Charity was already experienced at the sewing machine. 

Kara was in grade 9 and earned some High School volunteer hours required for her diploma. To earn your High School graduation diploma in our province, you need 40 hours to graduate by the end of grade 12.  Kara had some friends that needed hours!  So, on Easter Monday, 5 girls came over for the day!  Wow, did they work hard.  They designed, cut, pressed and sewed up two complete quilt tops.

Emma also needed a few more hours for her diploma so she came over on a Saturday and Kara came again and earned some more hours!  I can't find a picture of that finished quilt, but here is the top.

One of the girls that helped in April with the quilts was in grade 8 and couldn't start collecting hours until July 1st.  In August the 5 girls came over again and finished two more quilt tops!  This time we used a more controlled solid colour which really changes the look of the quilts.

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The quilts were all delivered to the Ukrainian center and we hope and pray they will bring some comfort to children coming to Canada.