Block Gathering

I know how helpful you all have been for this cause over the years and would like to ask another favour of you.

V at Bumblebeans Inc is making up quilts for a NYC charity called Basics Inc.  They try to get homeless families from all walks of life back into homes.  Not only that, they set up rehab,  health care, training, etc, etc.  You can read more about them here.

Now what I'd like to ask you to do is this.

V has been block gathering house blocks from all sorts of places, a bit like you do for me, but she has now got the same problem as I had, until my guardian angel came to the rescue - lack of fabric for backing and binding, and, of course, batting.

If you live in the US and have some spare fabric hanging around that you don't know what to do with, or it's been sitting in your stash for so long, you are wondering why you ever bought it, how about sending it to V?

She could really do with some help and I hope you can help her cos I know how big your hearts are.

Merci mille fois.

Zachary Hughes

It's not very often that I receive updates from the recipients of the quilts so you can imagine my surprise when Zachary's father emailed me a few days ago with news on how Zachary is doing.

He has given me permission to quote his email

Hello Clare

 

Just thought I'd drop you a brief email to let you know that our son, Zachary still uses the wonderful quilt you sent EVERY day! Here is a photo of him taken just after falling asleep a few days ago!

 

As well as his leukemia, he has lots of other problems too which have culminated in severe separation anxiety. This means that come his bedtime he won't go upstairs without us. So he sleep the first few hours on a been bag - and ALWAYS with his 'cover' as he calls it - your quilt!

 

Thought you might like to know your work lasts??!

 

If you want to find out more about Zack, check out http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/zacharyhughes

 

Thanks once again, with all our heart!

 

Ian & Kerri Hughes

 Thanks Ian and Kerri for keeping in touch.