This quilt was made for one of the girls at NH. It was so much fun to make something for one of our girls. She just turned 16 this July and she has such a heartbreaking and inspiring story of her own. She was brave enough to share part of her journey at church and I was inspired to make a quilt for her. I wanted to do a collaborative quilt with butterflies as the theme, and initially approached my quilt group to see if they could help. Since this is vacation time, a lot of them were going to be out of town and unavailable. My next idea was to approach the youth to see if they would be interested. Girls much younger than they have learned to embroider and do it well in the past. I was surprised by the overwhelming response.
Both boys and girls from the youth group responded to make squares for her. I think we had 10 kids and a few adults make squares and I made 5 more to fill in the gaps. It was fun to put a project like this together and see how proud the kids were to give it to her at her surprise birthday party.
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