QAYG charity blocks

Recently Alison at Little Island Quilts posted a request for help to make and send quilts to street children living in Mexico City. You can read more about this here and here. I know that Kiwis have a reputation for being generous when it comes to charity, so I'm thinking some of my NZ readers might want to get on board with this. Of course there are children living in poverty all around the world (NZ included) and quilts might seem an odd thing to give instead of the basics like food, clothing or fresh drinking water. But I believe that for children who literally have nothing, to have something, anything that is their own can be equally as nourishing, albeit in a different way.

The idea is simple. You make a 12.5"quilt block and quilt it. Alison will join the blocks together as she receives them and then has organised a way for the quilts to get to Mexico City. I realised that I had some orphan blocks that might do the trick - like this one:

And I also had a wonky star which has now been given the quilting treatment:

Alison thinks that scrappy log cabins will work quite well - I forgot about that part as I was hunting through my scraps and making another couple of blocks - but these are almost log cabins:

The backing gets quilted too (I think some people do QAYG slightly differently).

I'm posting these off in the next day or two, but if there are some lovely locals out there interested in making some blocks, I am happy for you to send them to me and I'll post them off with my next batch. Alternatively you can send them directly to Alison - if you let her know she will email you her address.