Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Charity Quilt - Part 1

Our quilt group, the Rotary Cutters, decided to donate a Sampler quilt for charity this year.  Every member got to choose her favourite technique and prepare 4 12.5 inch blocks.  We are donating the quilt to The Muscular Dystrophy Research Foundation of South Africa and hope that they will be able to raise money for research.  My firstborn died as a result of  Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in 2003 3 weeks before his 20th birthday.

My 4 blocks looks like this and will form the centre of the quilt.


Late Louwrens Geel (17-09-1983 to 22-08-2003) with his baby brother Trevor jr in 2000.

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