Anything Goes string quilt for Bloggers Quilt Festival

Anything Goes

56 by 64 inches

Machine pieced and quilted

Made by members of String Thing Along blog

This is a late entry to the Bloggers Quilt Festival,

but I thought it was important I get it in.

A bunch of us at the String Thing Along blog

challenged ourselves to make 8.5 inch string blocks

using our wildest and un-matchiest fabrics.

The only rule was to use a black strip in the middle.

Participants sent them to me and I put them together

for a donation quilt,

backing it with black fleece.

I've decided to donate this to Katie Cares Foundation, in honour of 14-year-old Katie who died on the weekend. She was diagnosed with cancer at 13, and started a foundation to help other kids with cancer in her community of Winkler, Manitoba, Canada. My nieces were friends with Katie and the weekend before she died, my nieces put on a yard sale and raised $1,300 for the foundation.

Together, some of us made a great quilt, and we're going to bring some comfort to a child with cancer.
I had hoped to give it to Katie, but  that was not to be.

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