Mourning Heart for Hideko

This is my Mourning Heart for Hideko. It's on black grosgrain, with sections of grey linen, black velvet and black lace over white satin. I edged the heart in a lovely piece of black lace trim. The middle seam is silver grey with black beads, at the top is an oval black faceted glass piece edged with tiny black beads. At the bottom is a small black button with a centre crystal. The grey bead with a black centre daisy chain separates the velvet and lace patches. It seems to me very sombre, but I thought that it conveyed the message of sorrow with a bright light of hope at the end.

Hands and Hearts for Sendai block finished!

It's finished and was a joy to work on.  It will be part of a quilt to raise money for those in need due to the recent earthquake/tsunami in Japan.  This was a CQI initiative and you can find out more here on Crazy Quilting International's blog.

Hearts and Hands for Sendai

My crazy quilting group "Crazy Quilting International" has been quick off the mark in providing a project for us to help those affected by the earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan. 

I think that this will be an enormous project as there is already a great response from CQI members, and we are hoping to open it up to all quilters who wish to help.  All the details are available on the CQI blog (on my sidebar of blogs) or use the link below. 

The idea is for us to create a 9" square crazy quilt block (finished size 8" square) in jewel tones, or for those non-crazies, a regular quilted square the same size and colours.  These will be made into quilts to be exhibited in Japan to raise money to help those affected.  You may track details on the CQI blog: http://crazyquiltinginternational.blogspot.com/ or the ICQA Facebook page.

This is my naked block.  I'm going to really enjoy embroidering and embellishing it for such a worthy cause.