My first shift was in the "Cuddly Critters" room. Last year the guild received a donation of, well, a TON of fabric. A quilter was moving and downsizing. We had 5 bins stuffed with fabric! So naturally, there was a Challenge involved...and as we usually do with our challenges, all the finished quilts would be donated to Project Linus. OK. That's nice. BUT (honestly, you knew there had to be a "but") the real challenge wasn't so much making the quilt - it was more that there pretty much wasn't any kid-friendly fabric in these bins and we had to make kid-friendly quilts! Specifically...with animals as the theme! Everyone that participated got a bag of miscellaneous fabric and the challenge was ON! We could add to it, but had to use it. One poor soul got a bag of nothing but red and black Asian fabric! WTF! And talk about rising to the challenge (!), she made the focus of her quilt a lovely panda...so appropriate.
Here are just a few examples:
