Blocks and giveaway for Blogiversary!

I've been hanging out in this space for nine years

(as of yesterday)

and lots of quilts have come under my needle since then.

What I appreciate most about this space and all of you

is how I've made connections.

To celebrate these connections, 

and how the world is a smaller place than it used to be,

I'm sending these four house blocks

(OK, one is a mosque, but it is a house of worship)

to the Montreal Modern Quilt Guild

to make quilts for the families of victims of the recent shooting in Quebec City

The deadline for 12.5 inch house blocks to get to Montreal is March 4.

Check out the hashtag #quiltsforqc on Instagram and Facebook.

Closer to home, right here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,

I've been part of a project to make blankets with new Canadians,

mostly from Syria, who live just blocks from me.

Women from my church joined with these women to tie four blankets

made from tops donated by quilting friends and me,

and batting donated by another friend.

We backed them with 108 inch wide flannel backing

(which shrunk to 100 inches, which is why pre-washing is good)

and brought back to front to bind them.

The result is four warm blankets to keep their families warm on cold winter nights,

as well as making a few connections between new Canadians 

and those of us who arrived a few generations back.

Now for the giveaway: 

To any of my followers, old or new, I'm offering a chance 

to win a personalized zipper bag, measuring about 8 inches by 6 inches,

with a quilting comic on one side and your first name on the other,

like the ones above.

Leave a comment on how you spread love through quilting by Feb. 14.

Make sure you're a follower!

You get an extra chance if you're also a follower on Instagram

and leave me a comment telling me that.

@brendasuderman