Now that the Royal Baby Quilt Sew-a-long has
wrapped up, we are excited to announce a project that we've had in
the works for quite some time: a Mystery
Sew Red Sew-a-long!
Did you know that 1 in 4 American women have heart disease? Join us in "Sticking it to Heart Disease!" by checking out our Stitch Red campaign!! You could save a life, maybe even yours!
Jimmy
Beans Wool is hosting a "block
of the month" style Mystery
Sew Red Sew-a-long
in which the finished product is a red-themed quilt to raise awareness of heart disease in women. Your favorite designers from the Sew Red book
will will be submitting block designs of different shapes and sizes,
and we'll be releasing block instructions every few weeks. Since the
blocks won't all have the exact same dimensions, quilters
who participate in this sew-a-long will likely choose to assemble
them in different configurations. This is where the mystery
comes in… no one will know what the finished quilt will look like
until the very end!
Every
few weeks from now through April 2014, we will release the fabric
requirements and the instructions for a block in the quilt. Some are
really easy and a few are more advanced, with most blocks falling in
the intermediate skill range. So, no matter your skill level, there
are blocks for you! If you don't feel up to the task of the more
advanced blocks, you can always repeat some of the easy ones so you
still get a good sized quilt!
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| Kristen's cowl design from Sew Red |
We
will be kicking off the Mystery
Sew Red Sew-a-long next
week with a block from Jimmy Beans' own Kristen Ashbaugh-Helmreich on her personal blog-- Marinade Designs. But don't worry! We'll be sure to post links to her blog (and each of the others) here as well. Stayed tuned for blocks from Kay Whitt of Serendipity Studio, the
talented sisters Barb and Mary from Me and My Sister, Amy Butler, David Butler (also known as Parson Gray),
Kaari Meng of French General, SUEDE (of Project Runway fame), and many more! (We don't want
to spoil the surprise!)
Once
the Mystery Sew Red Sew-a-long ends in April 2014, we will assemble our quilt from
the original blocks from the designers themselves. At this time, we
will also start to accept donated, finished quilts from sew-a-long
participants (that's you!). If you choose to donate your finished
quilt to our cause, it will go on tour with our master quilt
throughout the U.S. and will be featured at various quilt shows from
June 2014 through February 2015. Once the quilt have finished
touring the country and raising heart-disease awareness, they will
be donated to a hospital or charity focusing on heart disease, and
our master quilt will be auctioned off.
We
sincerely hope you'll join us in crafting to help raise awareness of
the number one killer of women in the U.S., heart disease, and the Stitch Red
campaign!
Did you know that 1 in 4 American women have heart disease? Join us in "Sticking it to Heart Disease!" by checking out our Stitch Red campaign!! You could save a life, maybe even yours!
