Today my daughter and I took some quilts I had made to the Palliative care floor at the VA in Birmingham. I have a soft place in my heart for our Veterans and their families. A lot of families live to far to go home each night and want to spend every moment they can with their loved ones. I was fortunate when my husband was there that I could go home at night. I have seen people sleeping on the floor in the family room and in the floor beside their loved ones beds. They keep the rooms on the chilly side.
I have tons of charm packs not sure why but I do. I found this pattern of Jenny's that is super easy, fast and takes 2 charm packs and some yardage. I added and made a few changes to the pattern to use what fabric I had. This makes the perfect size quilt for someone that is trying to sleep in a chair. They are not really fancy quilted but I hope the families can use them and it was great long arm practice for me. They let me hand them out to the families and believe it or not I had made exactly the number for each patient's family to have one.
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I have tons of charm packs not sure why but I do. I found this pattern of Jenny's that is super easy, fast and takes 2 charm packs and some yardage. I added and made a few changes to the pattern to use what fabric I had. This makes the perfect size quilt for someone that is trying to sleep in a chair. They are not really fancy quilted but I hope the families can use them and it was great long arm practice for me. They let me hand them out to the families and believe it or not I had made exactly the number for each patient's family to have one.
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