Scrappy Log Cabin Variation Free Form Quilt~ Donation for Project Linus

I made and donated this quilt along with some other quilts in October to Project Linus. Apparently something happened that caused a stir and brought on some new rules. Someone wrote a letter, but the contents of the letter wasn't disclosed to us PL volunteers, so who knows what it said or if it was a real concern to warrant making so many changes?

PL used to give us labels for us to sew on to our own quilts that we donated, although they guarded those labels and only gave us some when we needed them, but they won't give us labels anymore. They need to inspect each quilt (who knows what they are looking for exactly?) and only certain people will do the inspection and then they will sew on the label for each quilt that will be going to PL. 

We have to now use batting in all quilts, which is pricey and we often buy our own batting or whenever they have batting that is donated to us we can take some. A long arm quilter would quilt our quilts if we wanted her to if we gave them to her and she used Minky on the back and folded it over as a self binding and they were beautiful and soft and didn't really need batting. Now, I have no idea if she will be quilting at all anymore or need to use batting with the Minky backing or no Minky at all? No one has answered my questions about that when I emailed the group leader. 

I would use Polar Fleece as a backing and would not use batting as it was thick enough (like Minky) as it was and it saved on having to buy batting too. This quilt here that I am sharing today, I used no batting, but did use Polar Fleece on the back and it also acted like a batting at the same time. I turned in a few quilts in October that had no batting and wonder if they were rejected as a PL quilt? Did they donate my quilts to the Humane Society for a dog quilt or somewhere else without my knowledge? I made these for PL donations and I really do not want them donated anywhere else but to PL, but I will never know where they went. If I wanted to donate to the Humane Society, I would have made simple dog and cat blankets to donate to them and not spent weeks sewing scraps to create quilt tops and then quilting them to donate to PL for a child to have. PL quilts that are donated to a hospital can be disposed of if they find something that is questionable, such as pet fur/hair on it, chemical smell, smoke, etc. All of this I knew before and none of my quilts ever had these things on them.

 

While there were other changes made too such as using bright kid friendly colors and adding an appliqué on a Polar Fleece blanket that has a crochet edging to make it more kid friendly is something that should have been mentioned years ago. Plus, these quilts are for newborn to 18 years old, so I would add they should be kid friendly for the age of the child they will be going to as well. You wouldn't want to put a babyish appliqué on a quilt going to an 18 year old. So whatever that letter said that brought all the changes about may have been valid, but to not have my questions answered and not knowing whether my quilts were given to a child through PL or donated elsewhere has left me with a bad feeling.

I have now decided to make and donate quilts to send to Ukraine refugees through Wrap the World with Quilts. They need all sizes from baby to adult and anything we make will be wanted and used. We can use any colors. I will mail them through Give Back Box (which is how I mail purses to Sew Powerful) for only $20 and use a large box that can fit several quilts inside the box. They are sent to Utah to be distributed. I had been wanting to make a few quilts to donate to this cause anyhow, so now it will be my charity to donate quilts to.

Here is a scrappy quilt that I had donated to PL, and I hope some older child did receive this quilt. 

Quilt measures 41 1/2" wide x  56 1/2" high.

Polar Fleece backing.

I used up a lot of scraps making this quilt, which tends to take me much more time than cutting out a particular pattern to make, but it is satisfying using up the scraps.

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