Annual Donation Blocks

Each year Kate Hollifield collects crazy quilt blocks to auction during the Crazy Quilt Society Retreat in Omaha to benefit breast cancer research and build the scholarship fund for the retreat. I've sent a block every year, this is the eleventh, I think. This year I sent two, because the first was only partly my work. It was built on a piece I received years ago in a swap from Dorothy Matheson of Austin, Texas. It was a square of luscious, bright aqua blue fabric with an interesting piece of wide lace across it picturing a neighborhood of houses and trees. She embellished the lace with silk ribbon embroidery. I added fabrics and embellishment for the donation block.
I built the second donation block around a piece of crochet I did some time ago in greens. I had great fun using tall stacks of silver beads for hair around a metal face bead on this one.

Kate and Mona in Minnesota assemble several quilts from all the donated blocks in the weeks before the July retreat. Many thanks are due them.

I've never attended the retreat, but enjoy the vib through reports on the Crazy Quilt listserv at Quiltropolis.com. Kate posts pictures of the blocks as she receives them on her eboard site. They are all six and a half inch blocks and must be in jewel tones or monotone.