Bean bags for Liberia

Have you ever heard of Craft hope? It is an organization created by Jade, which invites people to spread love one stitch at a time by creating handmade items for a cause. They have projects directed to different causes and this time the project consisted of creating bean bags to help the orphans in Liberia to learn the alphabet, colors, and numbers. The bean bags were delivered to the Liberian Orphan Education Project.

To these children. 

We decided to create several sets and send them to the Liberian Orphan Education Project.

We made the color set with felt and embroidery thread. 

The numbers set used fabric for the bags and felt for the numbers. The numbers were sewn to the fabric as shown in the picture.







Then we created the bags...





and filled them in with beads.





The alphabet set was made similarly. We used pre-cut felt letters to make it easier.





For a step-by-step tutorial (in Spanish) on how to make the numbers and alphabet sets, you can go here. The color set is explained here in more detail. More coming up!

Karen's piece - round robin

This was the last piece of the round robin. I made it for Karen with seminole technique. 

This is how my piece looks with the others made by the other members of the group.

Gael's piece - round robin

This month, the technique to use was log-cabin.

This is the piece I made for Gael's round robin.

This is the result so far of all pieces including mine.

Jill's piece - round robin

Jill's theme is heart and flowers and for this month we needed to do folded things, so I made this folded flower with a heart on the center.

Linda's piece - round robin

Linda's quilt is about Japan, so I made some rice bowls in her piece.

Aida's set

I made this set for my aunt Aida. It is from the book Sew pretty homestyle. It is all using blue colors.

Sue's piece - Round robin

This month, we had to make stars, and this is what I made for Sue's quilt.
Here is how the quilt is coming along so far, with all the pieces already done by other people in the group.