My mother-in-law has always been an amazing seamstress. As long as I've know her, she's made beautiful children's clothing, teddy bears, quilts and many more things that I'm sure I'm forgetting. Some of you many remember her store, Country Side Boutique, which she eventually sold, and is now known as Teddy Bear Dreams (I bet a few of you learned something new just now ;) ) Many of her children and grandchildren have beautiful clothes and quilts that she made for them over the years. My kids still use their quilts all the time and love them.
Fast forward to 3 years ago, when my MIL became aware of the opportunity to make quilts for the Ukraine. There is a Ukrainian church just over the boarder in the USA that gathers up all the donated clothing and quilts and then ships these much needed items to the poor folks back home.
Over time her own supply of materials ran low, but by then others were becoming aware of the amazing work she was doing, and the donations began to flow in. Now each month or so, we get together to do a photo shoot of the quilts that are just completed, before they get sent off. Not only is it nice for her have a record of all the quilts she made, but this way people who donate material can also see what has been done with it.
With the demand constant, and the materials flowing in generously, my MIL put out the word that she would welcome some help. Mrs. Beekman took her up on the offer and is now also making quilts.
In the past 3 years, my MIL herself has make 360 quilts!!!!!!!! I know right!!!! Crazy amazing!!!!
As a photo shot in the same location can get a bit boring, my MIL asked if we were allowed to use this barn for this weeks photo shoot! We were so fortunate to have warm (almost hot against the sunny, south side of the barn) spring like weather for our shoot. Thanks to the Goudzwaards for letting us use your barn.
For these quilts, several of them are made with left overs from the Hygiene Packs that one of the local churches is making (you may have read about them a while ago in the local paper)http://www.theprogress.com/community/275802201.html It does mention the quilts in this article, but instead of going to Croatia, as the article says, it of course the Ukraine.
Most of the quilts I posted here are my mother-in-laws, but the one's below are made by Mrs. Beekman. There were of course more quilts that we took pictures of, but I really like how these one's stand out against the barn wall.
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