Marine Comfort Quilts

One day, I was taking the elevator up to my office and I was glancing at the Wall Street Journal. I saw an article on the front page about Marine Comfort Quilts, an organization that makes quilts for the next of kin of military members who have passed away in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Though it is called Marine Comfort Quilts, they provide quilts to the families of all branches of the military. Now, I had a lot of left over patriotic fabric from Mike's quilt so I thought I would make a few squares. The organization requested that all squares be 12".

In addition to the satisfaction I got from helping a worthy organization, I like participating with Marine Comfort Quilts because I can try out new square patterns and use up old scraps of fabrics. And, check this out. I can see that at least one of my squares made it on a quilt:

http://www.marinecomfortquilts.us/gallery/navy/n-thompson-cw.jpg

Here is a close up of the square that has made it on the Navy quilt in the above link. Due to my affinity for all things Navy, I saw this fabric at at JoAnns and just had to buy it! Of course, I bought way more than I would ever need, but it's a great fabric to use for this cause!!!

Every couple of months I go through my fabric and make up a few more squares. I am probably about due for another batch, and according to the website, Marine Comfort Quilts is in need of 127,830 squares! I'd better get going!!!!