Free Quilt Pattern to Help Kids in Hospitals

This is from the site Makeit-Loveit.com
Children in hospitals often times are not allowed to bring personal items of comfort from home to stay with them.  For this reason, the “Downy Touch of Comfort” campaign was born. They have partnered up with “Quilts for Kids” and have organized a way for children’s quilts (within certain specifications) to be gathered and donated to children who have been admitted to hospitals all over the U.S. 


Here is a free quilt pattern you can use to make quilts to brighten the days of these kids.

You don’t even have to purchase the fabric………or even cut it!  You can request a quilt kit here.

The Book: Page-Turning Art

These altered books are just amazing. Some have the complex look of a maze, some appear to be telling a story through paper fairy tale figures, and others have pretty birds and butterflies in flight. Either way they all demonstrate the importance of books in printed form or used in an altered form. 


Several great reasons to pick up a book: These artists are bringing literature to life. Clockwise from top left: "The Book of the Lost"(2011) by Su Blackwell; "Grolier" (2005) by Brian Dettmer; "Little Red Riding Hood" (detail) (2010) by Su Blackwell; "Paper Manipulation 1" (2002) and "Butterflies" (2012) both by Louisa Boyd.

Recently we've highlighted the work of artists breaking ground in various media, working with everything from fish parts to scrap metal. Paper has also made a comeback, but not in the traditional sense - artists like Louisa Boyd, Brian Dettmer and Su Blackwell are using books as a medium, lending a novel perspective (pun intended) to the concept of artistic narrative. In this photo-essay, we allow ourselves to be happily consumed by the story.

Boyd’s own sketchbooks inspired her to create works from the pages themselves. “The hand-bound book represents an element of our cultural heritage, a reminder of how far removed we have become from many traditional skills, and how technology and the use of machines have altered our world,” she recently told MutualArt.

Read more at Beauty and the Book: Page-Turning Art .

You may want to make your own altered books and enter them in The Art of The Book.
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