Baby Blanket Sunday

Each year in our church, Mother's Day is also Baby Blanket Sunday. It's a day when we bring in new blankets, either hand-made or store-bought, and donate them to Church World Service to be given out to children in need all around the world. Usually I just buy a little blanket and bring it in, but this year Grant's Sunday School class took on a project to make their own quilts to be donated. The project began about three months ago, and originally the kids were going to work in groups of three and produce one quilt per group. Then we got some great donations of fabric and we decided to let each child make their own. I was a bit skeptical about how Grant would handle this, but he exceeded my expectations and actually ended up doing about 95% of it all by himself! Along the way I got to thinking about all of the fabric I have just sitting in boxes from back in my quilting days. I decided to make a quilt for Griffin to give, since he is too young to do it himself. I had so much fun making it, and it reminded me of how much I used to like quilting. I really want to start doing it again, if I can find the time.

In the end, between the Sunday School quilts and the blankets donated from the rest of the congregation, we ended up with almost forty warm, fuzzy, love-filled blankets to be sent to those who need them. Rumor has it that our local Church World Service chapter in Syracuse has plans to send them to Myanmar, if they can get them through. It will be nice for the kids to be able to look at the news coming out of that area and know that they've done their little part to help.


Some of the blankets lined up on the choir rail.

Don't they look so soft?

Such lovely colors!

Detail of Griffin's quilt.

Bringing their quilts to the altar.


All of the Sunday School kids with their quilts.

Grant and Griffin with their quilts.