Connie Ewbank - Quick & Easy Quilts for Kids: 12 Friendly Designs

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The quilt patterns in this book are intended for use to make fun and fabulous quilts for kids, but these same patterns can also be used to make wonderful lap quilts of all kinds. The sizes are perfect for cribs, laps and youth beds. One of these simple, but fun, fast and easy quilt patterns may be just what you are looking for.

This is a great book to have on hand. You never know when you may want to make a baby quilt or a small throw.

Any one of the projects in this book can easily be made by a beginner in a day or two. Many are perfect for the use of large focal fabrics that are just too pretty to cut into smaller pieces. These sweet designs will make you want to whip up a quilt this weekend.

If you have leftover fabrics from previous projects, here is an opportunity to also use them. Many of these designs may be used to make charity quilts. Do you have a special charity you quilt for? If so, many of the patterns will appeal to you. They are perfect for group quilting. If your guild is planning to host a charity-quilt day, these quilts can inspire the completion of many quilt tops in just one day.

The possibilities are endless. Thumb through this book with an open mind. You will be amazed at what you discover.

Connie Ewbank learned to embroider when she was in grade school, and how to crochet when she was in high school. She has tried and enjoyed many different crafts.

Connie made her first quilt for her sister who was expecting a baby. Shes been making quilts ever since.

Connie owned a quilt and cross-stitch shopQuilt N Stitchin St. Louis, Mo., for 12 years. The shop offered lots of classes, many of them taught from designs created at the shop. Connie began to publish these designs in pattern and book form. She also purchased a separate counted-cross-stitch shop where she designed and taught classes.

In the early fall of 2004, Connie closed both shops and moved to the Baton Rouge, La., area. She has continued to teach and to design patterns for both quilting and counted cross-stitch. She publishes her cross-stitch designs under the name of Butterfly Stitches.

Teaching has taken Connie to many places around the Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and Kansas areas, and as far away as Monterrey, Mexico.

Since moving to Louisiana, she has expanded her teaching area to include Mississippi, Florida and North Carolina. Connie has taught at local quilt guilds, local and regional Embroiderers Guild of America (EGA) meetings and local American Needlepoint Guild (ANG) meetings. She also designs, sews and maintains her pattern company.

I cant think of a better way to spread the joy of quilting than to give a quilt to a child in need. There are so many worthy charities out there that finding just one to mention in this book was not an easy job. We did find a charity that we feel could benefit from this book and from the use of the patterns within. Quilts for Kids Inc. was founded in 2000 by Linda Arye, who was an interior designer at the time. Linda had a love of fabric and was interested in working with fabric companies to take their discontinued fabric samples, overruns and seconds, and turn them into quilts that would comfort children in need. Lindas daughter Mollie had survived two near-death experiences, and Linda knew how hard it was to spend countless hours in a hospital with a child. This is the experience that spurred Linda on to create Quilts for Kids.

Gifting quilts to children that they could keep forever was her inspiration for this charity. They were to be forever quiltsquilts the children could keep through their hospital stay and take home.

Quilts for Kids has stayed true to its founding ideas. It has also expanded to include children of abuse. In 2010, Quilts for Kids donated nearly 30,000 quilts to children fighting a lifelong battle with an illness and to children of abuse. With nearly 145,000 quilts donated to date, you can imagine the outpouring of loving quilters who have helped turn tears of pain into smiles. You could be one of them.

With more than six million children hospitalized in the United States alone, the need for quilts is huge. Quilts for Kids makes kits to send out to quilters, but it isnt enough. They ask quilters who receive the kits to make one or more quilts of their own so they can double or triple the number of children to whom they gift quilts.

If youre interested in helping a child in need, you can use a pattern from this book and visit www.quiltsforkids.org to get all the information. Quilters have big hearts, and this is one way to share your talents as a quilter. Use your stash to make a quilt for a child in need.

Transforming discontinued, unwanted and other fabrics into patchwork quilts that comfort children with life-threatening illnesses and children of abuse.

Our hope is that you find this book an inspiration to make and donate a quilt to a child in need, whether it is for this charity or for one of your choosing. Make a childs day a little brighter with a quilt.

Several quilts in this book were professionally machine-quilted by Carol Hilton on her long-arm machine. Thank you, Carol, for making time in your busy schedule to quilt the Sweet & Simple Sampler () quilts. They are beautiful! Thank you also to those of you who helped me stitch and bind a few of the quilts when I was overwhelmed.

This is a sampler of many of the blocks used in this book. A sampler can be fascinating to make. Your fabric choices can make it perfect for a child or grandmas favorite.

Skill Level: Beginner

Quilt Size: 50 56

Block Size: 6 6

Number of Blocks: 56

• 1/3 yard blue tonal
• 1/3 yard light green tonal
• 3/8 yard dark green tonal
• yard bright yellow tonal
• yard yellow tonal
• yard bright blue tonal
• 5/8 yard red tonal
• 3/4 yard navy tonal
• 1 yards white print
• Batting 58 64
• Backing 58 64
• Neutral-color all-purpose thread