Donation Blocks for Tealing All Our Stories (TAOS)
June 2024
For the past few years, I’ve made blocks to be included in a donation quilt for the Trudy Crowley Foundation fund-raiser held in Australia. The foundation supports the Trudy Crowley Center, providing a safe space, self-care and advice for those with ovarian cancer and their families.
This year’s theme was a bookcase. It was fun to see what the contributors included on their shelves in addition to the books, as you can see in the final quilt shown below. There’s even a picture of Trudy Crowley who started the foundation (second row, center block). For my blocks, I included a vase of sunflowers, a succulent plant and a shelf decoration, J&C. The shelf decoration is in remembrance of my sister Cathi and her sister-in-law Jody.
Kate over at Tall Tales from Chiconia is the ring leader of this endeavor each year, and what a mountain of organization, coordination and work she puts into it! This year’s theme was just as clever as the years prior. You can see from the variety of the blocks, that each contributor has indeed told their own story through their block(s).Â
Voila! Here is the finished quilt. I say every year, and say again, it’s amazing that so many different perspectives on a theme come together to create something so beautiful! Great job to the contributors, and kudos to Kate for spearheading.
Love Hugs 
As always, it was great to have you along! As it happens, your blocks were the first to arrive, and helped set the tone for the rest of them. This year’s theme seems to have a sort of spark that set the imagination on fire for a lot of the contributors, and the finished result is a wonderful quilt. I hope you’ll be able to join us again next year!
And, it was great to be along on another quilt journey! I certainly hope that I’ll be able to join next year, as I really enjoy the creative outlet this project provides. Cheers 🙂