The Piecemakers by the Bay Quilt Guild has service project called Quilts for Heroes. It began as a interactive project in our 2008 Quilt Show.
People would come and sit at our booth and sew together 4 strips of patriotic fabric to make an 8 1/2" block. These blocks were then assembled by guild members into lap size quilts for wounded soldiers returning to our area.
People would come and sit at our booth and sew together 4 strips of patriotic fabric to make an 8 1/2" block. These blocks were then assembled by guild members into lap size quilts for wounded soldiers returning to our area.
It was amazing to see how responsive the crowd was to this project. People young and old, male and female sat and sewed whether they had any experience or not. Many who didn't sew chose to give monetarily to help purchase batting and materials.
In this picture above I am putting the binding on a quilt that was cut into strips by one person, pieced together by another and then quilted by yet another. It truly is a group effort. 
