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Friday, June 21, 2013

Bad Bad Blogger - Finish It Up Friday

     I have been pretty quiet as of late. I wish I had some awesome excuse. I wasn't traveling in the south of France. I wasn't building homes for the poor of Guatemala. I wasn't off saving the world/living an exotic life of leisure/curing cancer/saving babies. I was cleaning/traveling to Columbus/making green smoothies/and going to the gym. I started healthing up my life at the beginning of the year. A new years resolution that has stuck around for at least half of the year. Thus far I am down 50 plus pounds and I feel great!

     I am in for another long long stretch in Columbus. I feel like this is my summer home! There is a great charity in Columbus called My Very Own Blanket. I had come across them when I was in Columbus last year. The founder loaded me up with a huge bag of scraps and some pre-cut 8 1/2 inch squares. I happily carted my loot back home. I knew it wasn't for me but I still get excited about having new fabric to play with. I would like to mention that Connecting Threads donates alot of scraps of fabric and batting to MVOB. If you aren't familiar with Connecting Threads do yourself a favor by going to their site. They have awesome prices on thread and fabric. I only found out that the distribution center was located in Columbus when my ordered arrived at my house. The scraps I received from MVOB looked like alot of fabrics I was familiar with so I asked the next time I was at MVOB. As it happens all the ends/scraps/unsellables get tossed into bins. They donate these to MVOB  who uses them through volunteers and some inmates to create quilts for kids in foster care.

I have a couple tops that I finished up for MVOB.





Many more quilts to come, I am considering these "finished" as I have already returned them to MVOB.
Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it up Friday.

Don't forget about the give away here..... until 5/25.....

6 comments:

  1. Wow, losing 50 pounds is nearly as hard as curing some terrible disease, so congratulations! You've done that, gotten healthier AND are getting tons of quilting done. I'm impressed. :)

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  2. You go girl! Way to get healthy! That's really wonderful of you to make those quilt tops for mvob

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  3. Love your herring bone quilt. It is so spunky!

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  4. Did you add the pink heart into the string quilt on purpose? Congratulations on the weight loss!

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  5. congratulations on your half of a year of healthy lifestyle and your 50 lb weight loss. that is awesome!!! way to go!!!

    your charity quilts look great, too! i love sewing for a good cause. keep up the good work!

    thanks for linking up to finish it up Friday!

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