In 2024, sew steady is encouraging you to participate in quilting for a cause!
Each month we will be highlighting a different quilting charity. We want to reward all quilters that are creating quilts for charity and the good you & these charities do! Join us in quilting for a cause by posting your quilts for charity to Facebook & this page in the comments. When you comment on this page, you will automatically receive a $10 credit to use on tools & accessories to help you in your efforts!
february
quilts of valor
The Mission of the Quilts of Valor® Foundation is to cover Service Members and Veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. Quilts of Valor Foundation began in 2003 with a dream, literally a dream. Founder Catherine Roberts’ son Nat was deployed in Iraq. The message of her dream was: Quilts = Healing.
The model appeared simple: have a volunteer team who would donate their time and materials to make a quilt. One person would piece the top and the other would quilt it. I saw the name for this special quilt: it was Quilt of Valor, a QOV.
From the beginning, Catherine Roberts had definite ideas about standards of excellence for Quilts of Valor: I knew a Quilt of Valor had to be a quality-made quilt, not a “charity quilt.” A Quilt of Valor had to be quilted, not tied, which meant hand or machine quilting. It would be “awarded,” not just passed out like magazines or videos, and would say unequivocally, “Thank you for your service, sacrifice and valor in serving our nation.”
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