The December mystery kits are ready. We will be closed much of the week between Christmas and New Years so we worked to have them available a little early.
The Farmhouse Summer collection exudes warmth and sunshine, a perfect project to tackle on a cold, wintery day.
As you can tell from the photo, it is a pretty quick and simple sew. Have fun!
We are still working on fabrics for January. We will post as soon as we know. In the mean time, have a safe and joyous Christmas and a happy New Year! We are so grateful for your friendship and support.
We thought it appropriate this Christmas season to reflect on the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
One can only imagine the faith and courage she must have had to accomplish such an important role in the history of all mankind. From giving birth in a lowly stable to watching the Savior of us all, her son, suffer and die on the cross, she was an extraordinary woman of character and faith.
Take a minute or two to enjoy this depiction of the the nativity. I think it offers interesting and thoughtful perspectives from Mary and all who witnessed this marvelous event. https://youtu.be/yXWoKi5x3lw?si=BV-dUyxN4B1d7D7-
For this block you will need:
Background:
1) 6-inch square
1) 4 1/2-inch square
1)2 1/2 x 10 1/4-inch strip
Brown:
1) 6-inch square
2) 5 1/2-inch squares
Pink:
2) 5 1/2-inch squares
1) 2 1/2 x 10 1/4-inch strip
Place the 6-inch background and brown squares right sides together with the outside edges aligned. Draw two diagonal lines (an X) on the back of the background square. Sew 1/4 inch on each side of the diagonal lines. Cut in the exact center, vertically and horizontally, as well as on the diagonal lines. Trim each of the resulting half-square triangle to 2 1/2 inches. Press toward the brown.
Place a 5 1/2 inch pink and brown square together with the right sides facing and the outside edges aligned. Draw a diagonal line on the back of the pink square. Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the drawn line. Cut on the drawn line. Press the resulting half-square triangle toward the brown. Repeat using the remaining pink and brown squares.
Place two of the pink and brown half-square triangles together with the pink of one square facing the brown of the other square. The seams of both squares should match up and run the same direction. Draw a diagonal line on the back of one set perpendicular to the seam. Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the line. Cut on the line and press. Trim the resulting quarter-square triangles to 4 1/2 inches. Repeat with the remaining sets to create 4) quarter-square triangle sets.
Cut 4) 2 1/2-inch squares from both of the 2 1/2-inch strips.
Use the photo below to assemble and sew the block.
As the Christmas season approaches and 2023 comes to a close we want to take a minute to thank you for your friendship and support. We are grateful to count you as friends.
We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! We are so grateful for your support and friendship.
The quilt for November is revealed.
It resembles a magnificent display of fireworks, don't you think?
Coordinating back and binding fabric are available while supplies last.
We will be using Jelly Rolls from the Farmhouse Summer collection for the December Mystery quilt.
Call us at 801-465-9133 to join in the fun. We will be releasing the December mystery quilt a little early so we can all spend a little holiday time with the family.
On another note: we will be closed Sat. December 2 to participate in a family event. Sorry for the inconvenience.
In conjunction with small business Saturday this weekend we are doing a customer appreciation event.
We are so grateful for all of you and your support. Drop by Saturday for a free Nativity pattern and quick homemade gift ideas. Get a deal on our clearance fabrics.
Hope to see you and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
First of all, I've just got to say, we were showing our 9 year-old grandson and his 7-year old sister this quilt and telling them a little about what we are doing in highlighting strong, courageous women. When asked who they thought would be a good person to highlight they both said Rosa Parks as they pointed to the block they thought should represent her. (They chose the block because it reminded them of a rose.) So, with this block, we are following their suggestion.
The following is an article written by Arlisha Norwood for the National Women's History Museum.
On
December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead
of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans,
she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers,
the bus driver asked Parks to move. She refused. Her resistance set in motion
one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa
Louise McCauley was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a
child, she went to an industrial school for girls and later enrolled at Alabama
State Teachers College for Negroes (present-day Alabama State University).
Unfortunately, Parks was forced to withdraw after her grandmother became ill.
Growing up in the segregated South, Parks was frequently confronted with racial
discrimination and violence. She became active in the Civil Rights Movement at
a young age.
Parks
married a local barber by the name of Raymond Parks when she was 19. He was
actively fighting to end racial injustice. Together the couple worked with many
social justice organizations. Eventually, Rosa was elected secretary of the
Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP).
By the
time Parks boarded the bus in 1955, she was an established organizer and leader
in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. Parks not only showed active
resistance by refusing to move she also helped organize and plan the Montgomery
Bus Boycott. Many have tried to diminish Parks’ role in the boycott by
depicting her as a seamstress who simply did not want to move because she was
tired. Parks denied the claim and years later revealed her true motivation:
“People
always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t
true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the
end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me
as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of
giving in.”
Parks
courageous act and the subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott led to the integration
of public transportation in Montgomery. Her actions were not without
consequence. She was jailed for refusing to give up her seat and lost her job
for participating in the boycott.
After
the boycott, Parks and her husband moved to Hampton, Virginia and later
permanently settled in Detroit, Michigan. Parks work proved to be invaluable in
Detroit’s Civil Rights Movement. She was an active member of several
organizations which worked to end inequality in the city. By 1980, after
consistently giving to the movement both financially and physically Parks, now
widowed, suffered from financial and health troubles. After almost being
evicted from her home, local community members and churches came together to
support Parks. On October 24th, 2005, at the age of 92, she died of natural
causes leaving behind a rich legacy of resistance against racial discrimination
and injustice.
For this block you will need:
Background: 4) 4” squares 4) 2 x 3
½” 2) 2 x 8
¼” Pink: 1) 3 ½”
square 1) 2 x 8
¼” 2) 4 ½”
squares Red leaf: 1)2 x 8 ¼” Red floral: 2) 4 ½”
squares 1) 2 x 8
¼”
Sew the 2" x 8 1/4" red leaf strip to a 2 x 8 1/4" background strip. Press toward the red. Cut into 4) 2" segments.
Repeat using the 2" x 8 1/4" inch pink strip with a 2 x 8 1/4" background strip. Press toward the pink. Cut into 4) 2" segments.
Sew the red leaf segments to the pink segments to create 4) four-patch units. These will be used in the four corners of the block.
Draw a diagonal line on the back of the 4 1/2" pink squares. Match each of these with a 4 1/2" red floral square making sure the right sides are together and the outside edges are aligned. Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the line. Cut on the line. Press.
Draw a diagonal line on the back of the 4" background squares. Match these with the pink/red half-square triangles. Make sure the drawn line on the background square runs perpendicular to the seam of the pink/red squares and the right sides are facing with the outside edges aligned as much as possible. Sew 1/4 - inch on each side of the line. Cut on the line. Square the resulting blocks to 3 1/2 inches and press.
Sew a 2 x 3 1/2 - inch background to opposite sides of the 3 1/2 - inch pink square.
Cut 4) 2" squares from the red 2" x 8 1/4" strip. Sew one of these squares to each end of a 2 x 3 1/2 - inch background strip. Press. Sew these to the remaining sides of the 3 1/2 - inch pink unit.
Refer to the photo below to assemble the components and complete the block.
We are planning an Americana feel for the November mystery quilt. We will be using fabric from the "Bright Stars" collection by Teresa Kogut for Riley Blake designs. Should be fun!
Give us a call (801-465-9133) to reserve your spot.
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Franz Elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.
Bridges was the eldest of five children born to Abon and Lucille Bridges. As a child, she spent much time taking care of her younger siblings, though she also enjoyed playing jump rope and softball and climbing trees. When she was four years old, the family relocated from Tylertown, Mississippi, where Bridges was born, to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, when she was six years old, her parents responded to a request from the NAACP and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans school system, even though her father was hesitant.
Background
Bridges was born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days before Bridges' birth. The court ruling declared that the establishment of separate public schools for white children, which black children were barred from attending, was unconstitutional; accordingly, black students were permitted to attend such schools. Though the Brown v. Board of Education decision was finalized in 1954, southern states were extremely resistant to the decision that they must integrate within six years. Many white people did not want schools to be integrated and, though it was a federal ruling, state governments were not doing their part in enforcing the new laws. Under significant pressure from the federal government, the Orleans Parish School Board administered an entrance exam to students at Bridges' school with the intention of keeping black children out of white schools.
Integration
Bridges attended a segregated kindergarten in 1959. In early 1960, Bridges was one of six black children in New Orleans to pass the test that determined whether they could go to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. Two of the six decided to stay at their old school, Bridges went to Frantz by herself, and three children were transferred to McDonogh No. 19 and became known as the McDonough Three. Bridges and her mother were escorted to school by four federal marshals during the first day that Bridges attended William Frantz Elementary. In the following days of that year, federal marshals continued to escort Bridges, though her mother stayed behind to take care of her younger siblings.
Bridges' father was initially reluctant, but her mother felt strongly that the move was needed not only to give her own daughter a better education, but to "take this step forward ... for all African-American children". Her mother finally convinced her father to let her go to the school.
Judge Skelly Wright's court order for the first day of integrated schools in New Orleans on Monday, November 14, 1960, was commemorated by Norman Rockwell in the painting, The Problem We All Live With (published in Look magazine on January 14, 1964). As Bridges describes it, "Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras. Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, "She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn't whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we're all very very proud of her."
U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school.
As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers except for one refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Bridges, and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, "as if she were teaching a whole class."
That first day, Bridges and her mother spent the entire day in the principal's office; the chaos of the school prevented their moving to the classroom until the second day. On the second day, however, a white student broke the boycott and entered the school when a 34-year-old Methodist minister, Lloyd Anderson Foreman, walked his five-year-old daughter Pam through the angry mob, saying, "I simply want the privilege of taking my child to school…" A few days later, other white parents began bringing their children, and the protests began to subside. Yet, still, Bridges remained the only child in her class, as she would until the following year. Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her, while another held up a black baby doll in a coffin. This led the U.S. Marshals dispatched to oversee her safety to only allow Bridges to eat the food that she brought from home, and she was not allowed to participate in recess.
The Bridges family suffered for their decision to send her to William Frantz Elementary: her father lost his job as a gas station attendant; the grocery store the family shopped at would no longer let them shop there; her grandparents, who were sharecroppers in Mississippi, were turned off their land; and Abon and Lucille Bridges separated. Bridges has noted that many others in the community, both black and white, showed support in a variety of ways. Some white families continued to send their children to Frantz despite the protests, a neighbor provided her father with a new job, and local people babysat, watched the house as protectors, and walked behind the federal marshals' car on the trips to school. It was not until Bridges was an adult that she learned that the immaculate clothing she wore to school in those first weeks at Frantz was sent to her family by a relative of Coles. Bridges says her family could never have afforded the dresses, socks, and shoes that are documented in photographs of her escort by U.S. Marshals to and from the school.
As of 2004, Bridges, now Ruby Bridges Hall, still lives in New Orleans with her husband, Malcolm Hall, and their four sons. After graduating from a desegregated high school, she worked as a travel agent for 15 years and later became a full-time parent. She is now chair of the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which she formed in 1999 to promote "the values of tolerance, respect, and appreciation of all differences". Describing the mission of the group, she says, "racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it."
In November 2007, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis unveiled a new permanent exhibit documenting her life, along with the lives of Anne Frank and Ryan White. The exhibit, called "The Power of Children: Making a Difference", cost $6 million to install and includes an authentic re-creation of Bridges' first grade classroom.
On July 15, 2011, Bridges met with President Barack Obama at the White House, and while viewing the Norman Rockwell painting of her on display he told her, "I think it's fair to say that if it hadn't been for you guys, I might not be here and we wouldn't be looking at this together".[26] The Rockwell painting was displayed in the West Wing of the White House, just outside the Oval Office, from June through October 2011.[27]
For this block you will need:
Background:
1) 5 1/2" square
5) 4 1/2" squares
Blue:
2) 5 1/2" squares
4) 2 1/2" squares
Pink:
1) 5 1/2" square
4) 2 1/2" squares
Sewing:
Draw a diagonal line on the back of each of the 2 1/2 inch blue and pink squares.
Place a blue square on a corner of a 4 1/2 inch background square. (The drawn line should run edge to edge) Sew on the line. Trim 1/4 inch from the line. Repeat on all four corners. Press.
Place a pink 2 1/2 inch square on a corner of a 4 1/2 inch background square. Sew on the line. Trim 1/4 inch from the sewn line. Press. Repeat on one corner of the three remaining 4 1/2 inch background squares.
Draw a diagonal line on the back of both 5 1/2 inch blue squares.
Place one of the 5 1/2 inch blue squares with a 5 1/2 inch background square making sure the outside edges are aligned and the right sides are together. Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the drawn line. Cut on the line. Press toward the blue.
Repeat the process using the other 5 1/2 inch blue square and a 5 1/2 inch pink square. Press.
Draw a diagonal line (perpendicular to the seam) on the back of the blue/background squares. Place them with a blue/pink square. Make sure the seams are running the same direction and the blue fabrics are not facing each other. The right side of the fabric should be facing with the outside edges aligned. Sew 1/4 inch of both sides of the line. Cut on the line. Press and trim to measure 4 1/2 inches.
While we were contemplating whom to highlight with this block we came across an article by Sarah Ban Breathnach, a New York Times best selling author. She reminds us of the faith and courage of the pilgrim women who helped settle our great nation and some lessons we can learn from them. The following is an excerpt from her article.
"When deep discouragement comes, I comfort myself by thinking of the long line of heroic women who came before me—not only those in my family, but every woman settler, explorer, adventurer, native American mother and prairie homemaker, who tamed wild lands and wild times to make homes for those they loved. I particularly love to meditate on the first band of Pilgrim women.
There were 18 women on the Mayflower, and although none of them died during the crossing from England to Massachusetts; by the time of the first “Thanks Giving” meal, a year later in 1621, there were only 4 women who had survived the brutal winter, spring sowing and autumn harvest. Four very tired women who needed to take care of 50 men and children daily.
With the men almost entirely focused on building houses and the village, the women had so many chores, they performed in shifts. For aside from cleaning and cooking, there was plowing and planting, preserving and putting away, caring for livestock, making soap and candles from tallow (animal fat), tending the sick and creating herb medicinals. There was so much work that they lived on one portion’s grace and if they didn’t drop down dead with their hand to the plow or wither away in a nighttime sweat from a succession of diseases contracted on the voyage, they took it as a sign that God meant for them to go on. And you know what, they were right.
I love the bare bones simplicity of this truth. Sometimes in life, all we can do is put one foot out of the bed and then in front of the other, literally. I figure if you wake up in the morning, you’re meant to go on—continue at what you’re doing and ask Heaven to show you what you’re doing wrong, if you are. Ask for confirmation of what you’re doing right. Ask for what you need and want. Ask to be taught the right questions. Ask to be answered. Ask for the Divine Plan of your life to unfold through joy. Ask politely. Ask with passion. But ask! Ask to be heard. Ask for a blessed respite from daily crises. While you’re at it, ask for a deeply personal miracle—you know, the one you need so much you’re afraid to even pray for it? But if we can’t learn to ask for help, we’re going to be left on our own.
What do you think the prayers of the Pilgrim women were? How about, “Please God, help me.” Thank you that I’m here, but why? How can four women take care of 50 men and children?” Well, those sound like pretty good openers.
Women are born with a blessed DNA—the genetic code of resilience, strength, ingenuity, creativity, perseverance and determination—that is what I call feminine spiritual moxie. Our Destiny, Nature and Aspirations are Divinely endowed, so why wouldn’t we be given the wherewithal to fulfill them?
So, whenever anything happens that triggers the feeling of angst or distress, take a deep breath and silently ask yourself a few questions as I do when I’m in the midst of trying to do everything and accomplishing nothing:
Is my family safe today?
Is there a roof over our heads today?
Did I have to chop wood to keep warm today?
Tomorrow will I have to carry water from a creek 2 miles away?
Did I have to shoot the turkey for our meal today?
Women have always cared for the world, one way or another, but we still don’t know how to take care of ourselves. If we can’t do one, then we can’t do the other. I just love to share with you what I’m seeking: Divine connection and the courage to go on, wherever the pioneer trails lead us. We will not, cannot forget the legacy of loved passed down to us, our daughters, and granddaughters, from generations of beautiful, brave, and heroic women from centuries before, who reach through the portcullis of the past watching over us and encouraging us to go on, further than they could even imagine.
So come, my grateful sisters, come to gather together. Offer grace for the bounty of goodness. Raise the song of harvest home, the glass of good cheer, the heart overflowing with joy. We have so much for which to be thankful, so much about which to smile, so much to share. So much, that in this season of plenty, we can embrace the season of relinquishment. All we have is all we need."
For this block you will need:
2) 6" background squares 3) 3" background squares 1) 2 1/2" x 34" background strip 1) 6" brown square 2) 3" brown squares
1) 2 1/2" brown square
(Sorry, we forgot to put this one in your packet. Please pick it up at your convenience.) 1) 6" pink square 1) 3" pink square
Draw two diagonal lines (an X) on the back of both 6" background squares.
Place one with the 6" pink square, making sure the right sides are together and the outside edges are aligned.
Sew 1/4 inch on each side of the drawn lines.
Cut on the diagonal lines and through the center of the squares vertically and horizontally. (This yields 8 triangle squares.) Trim each one to 2 1/2 inches and press toward the pink.
Repeat the process using the other 6 inch background and 6 inch brown square.
Draw a single diagonal line on the back of the 3) 3" background squares. Place with the 3 inch brown and pink squares making sure the outside edges are aligned and the right sides are together.
Sew 1/4 inch on each side of the drawn lines. Cut on the lines. Trim to 2 1/2 inches and press toward the print fabrics. (Note: you will not use one of the pink and one of the brown triangle squares in the block.)
From the 2 1/2 inch strip cut:
2) 8 1/2 inch strips 1) 6 1/2 inch strip 1) 4 1/2 inch strip 2) 2 1/2 inch squares
Ol' St. Nicholas comes alive in this vintage postcard quilt. Isn't it charming?
Pattern correction: In the cutting instructions we neglected to have you cut 48) 3 1/2 inch squares from the background fabric. These will be the corners of the star blocks.
Becky created a coordinating throw pillow using additional panel squares and scraps from the quilt. It's a little hard to see in the photo but there is a cute gift bag also created from panel squares.
The kits are ready - come and get 'em!
We are still working on fabric for the Sept. mystery. Watch the blog as we will post the details when we get it figured out.
This information is taken from an article at the John Fitzpatrick Kennedy Historical Site.
Eunice Kennedy was born in Brookline,
Massachusetts on July 10, 1921, the fifth child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy.
Although underweight, frail, and susceptible to illness as a child, Eunice
displayed great energy that was rivaled only by her intelligence and precocious
nature. Mrs. Kennedy recalled her daughter’s “highly conscientious demeanor”
and noted that Eunice mimicked her older brothers, acting as a leader among her
younger siblings. Considered by her mother to be the most sensitive,
religiously devout, and mature of the Kennedy children, Eunice developed a
particularly close bond with her older sister, Rosemary,
who had intellectual disabilities. This connection helped foster a lifelong
dedication to empowering those who may have otherwise been marginalized by
society. Through her work in politics, government, and social activism, Eunice
Kennedy Shriver improved the lives of millions of people around the world.
Political
Involvement
Born in 1921, the year after women
first received the right to vote in federal elections, Eunice Kennedy Shriver
never ran for political office. However, she took on pivotal roles in the
campaigns of her brothers John, Robert,
and Edward,
and husband, Sargent – much as her mother had done with her own father and
sons.
Eunice, and the rest of the Kennedy family, recruited and coordinated volunteer
hostesses for the tea parties crucial to John’s 1952 senate campaign. Eunice
also organized an elegant reception for 1,500 Irish Catholics to enlist their
support, days before the upcoming election. In later campaigns for her brothers
and husband, Eunice spent months traveling the country to deliver speeches at
luncheons, retirement homes, colleges, fundraisers, and on radio and television
programs. The hectic pace of the campaign suited Eunice’s acutely competitive
drive. Eunice, who had been competing athletically since her youth, recalled,
“I was twenty-four before I knew I didn’t have to win something every day.”
After John’s successful 1960 campaign for the presidency, Eunice required
hospitalization for fatigue and exhaustion, prompting her mother to write “I
have known few people in the world to match her for initiative and energy and
drive. […] She [Eunice] thinks I have a lot of energy, but she amazes me.” Around
this time, Eunice was diagnosed with Addison’s disease.
Service
and Activism
In
1946, Eunice began work as the executive secretary to the Juvenile Delinquency
Committee at the Department of Justice. There, she demonstrated strong
compassion for underprivileged youth. She created policy to prevent teenagers
from dropping out of high school by teaching them trades and vocational skills.
Later, she worked as a social worker at a women’s prison in North Carolina. She
then joined her sisters Patricia and Jean in Chicago, where she worked with
survivors of sexual abuse and teenage mothers who were under the care of the
state. During those years, Eunice attended graduate school for social work at
the University of Chicago and also met Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. , whom she
married in 1953.
In 1958, Eunice and Sargent traveled across the country to meet leading
philanthropists, researchers, and academics in an effort to improve the Joseph
P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, which was established in memory of Eunice’s oldest
brother, Joe Jr., who was killed in WWII. With Rosemary in mind, Eunice eventually
decided that the foundation should shift its focus to concentrate on funding
research for children with intellectual disabilities. She spearheaded many of
its initiatives over the decades that followed. During the Kennedy
Administration, Eunice lobbied her older brother and his advisers to create a
national committee on intellectual disabilities. She also suggested developing
an organization similar to a domestic version of the Peace Corps to help those
most in need. When her husband served as the ambassador to France from
1968-1970, Eunice taught a weekly class to 140 intellectually disabled children
in Paris as part of an effort to educate the French citizenry about
intellectual disabilities and compel its leaders to take action.
The
Special Olympics
In 1961, Eunice started a summer camp
for children with intellectual disabilities on the lawn of her Maryland estate.
One year later, she decided that the Kennedy family should publicly acknowledge
Rosemary’s condition for the first time, leading Eunice to write an essay in the
Saturday Evening Post, a very popular weekly magazine. Though
the wording of this article is now outdated, the article was an important
contribution to disability literature. She addressed the prejudices of the
general public surrounding people with intellectual disabilities and urged
funding for medical research, job training, and group homes. Eunice wrote,
“Like diabetes, deafness, polio, or any other misfortune, [intellectual
disabilities] can happen in any family. It has happened in the families of the
poor and rich, of governors, senators, Nobel prizewinners, doctors, lawyers,
writers, men of genius, presidents of corporations – the President of the
United States.”
Through Eunice’s encouragement and the
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation’s funding, the first Special
Olympics were held in 1968 at Chicago’s Soldier Field and
hosted 1,000 athletes from 26 states and Canada. Today, the Special Olympics
furthers Eunice’s mission of
empowering those with intellectual disabilities and fostering competitiveness
and athleticism on a worldwide scale. In 2019,
nearly115,000Special Olympics sports competitions
were hosted around the world, with more than 5.7 million athletes from 200
countries.
In recognition of her tireless efforts to improve and enhance the lives of
people with intellectual disabilities, Eunice was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and received a papal
knighthood from Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. She died on August 11, 2009 at the
age of 88.
"You are
the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to
every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of
victory: "The right to play on any playing field? You have earned it. The
right to study in any school? You have earned it. The right to hold a job? You
have earned it. The right to be anyone's neighbor? You have earned it."
The days of segregation and separation are over!"
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Charge to the Athletes at the Opening Ceremonies of the International Summer
Special Olympics Games, South Bend, Indiana, August 2, 1987
For this block you will need:
3) 4" red squares
2) 4" brown squares
5) 4" background squares
6) 3 1/2" background squares
Draw a diagonal line on the back of each of the 4" background squares.
Match one of these with the 4" red and 4" brown squares making sure the outside edges are aligned and the right sides are together.
Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the drawn line.
Cut on the line.
Square the blocks to measure 3 1/2 inches. Trim the excess points of the seams and press.
Refer to the photo below to arrange the half- square triangle patches to complete the block.
We are cutting finishing kits for the quilt. The kits are priced at $69.95 and will include everything to complete the quilt top and the binding.
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