Do you have plans to celebrate Memorial Day ? Consider Helping to Make Quilts for QOV - One Block at a Time

Do you have plans for Memorial Day weekend?  Are you having a traditional BBQ, watching a parade, or having a relaxing weekend enjoying family & friends?  What ever you do, I hope you have a wonderful time.  But, if you are able to, I'm hoping you willt consider making a Patriotic block, or more, to help the Quilts of Valor program give quilts to wounded Soldiers and Veterans.

You can always make quilt blocks, quilt tops or finished quilts and give to your local QOV progam.  But, between now and June 20th you have the opportunity to help QOV and also enter my first Charity Quilt Block Challenge, sponsored by AccuQuilt, Quilt in a Day, and Martingale & Company.  They've donated some great prizes that you could win on July 4th, just by helping to make quilts for QOV.

Beautiful Quilt blocks are starting to arrive and  Tink Linhart has been kind enough to send me some photos to share with you today.  I'll later do another post, where I hope to recognize everyone that has sent in blocks.  Unfortunately, I don't yet have all the info to recognize exactly who created which block shared today.  But, for those that are taking this Challenge, please know how much you are appreciated.

Maybe you have time today to make a Patriotic quilt block, or sometime this week, but I wanted to plant a seed to encourage quilters to make one, or more, over Memorial Day weekend.

Please take time to read SewCalGal's Charity Quilt Block Challenge for more informaiton on this challenge, and how to enter to win prizes.

Some of you may be wondering how I selected Dick & Tink's group to be the recipient of my first Charity Quilt Block Challenge.  Well, it is pretty simple as they were the first to respond when I posted an announcement that I was looking for non-profit groups that would be interested in being recipient of such challenges in the future, and they have a large volunteer base that is committed to finishing these quilts.  If there is interest in future Challenges, I hope to be able to coordinate more to benefit other non-profit charity quilt groups.