Thanks PAUL! Rock and ROLL!
This is Jonathan, BettyAnn's dad.
I"ve been talking with Miss Shrem about the idea of taking the kids' artwork and turning it into a quilt. The idea started when the kindergarteners MADE a "quilt" of construction paper and tape (which many of you have--no doubt--seen, hanging in the hall across from the lunch room)
and we started batting back and forth the idea of turning that piece of artwork into an "actual" quilt.
After several conversations, the idea has matured into a larger one: we think it would be nice to make a SCHOOLWIDE quilt of the kids' artwork--not only kindergarteners, but the grades above as well. Each kid (and there are about 110 in the whole school) would make a "square" which would then be transferred to fabric (or created on fabric in the first place), backed with another fabric, filled with quilt batting, and sewn. Then ALLLLL the pieces would be sewn together into a single quilt (by us, the parents, via a series of "quilting bees."
Huge idea, I know. But the idea (I think) is that we could auction it off as a fundraiser for the school, and maybe make several million dollars. And by "several million dollars" I mean "considerably less than several million dollars, but still an impressive amount."
So I'm bringing the idea to the kindergarteners mom's and dads and grandmoms and granddads and aunts and uncles and guardians and nanny's etc., in hopes that WE can provide the impetus that gets this project going.
I know Rachel (Emma's mommy) has expressed interest, has some sewing experience and maybe even a ....get this...SEWING MACHINE. If you have a) interest, b) a sewing machine or c) experience as a sewer of stuff, could you please respond? We'll need an enormous amount of help to get 110 squares sewn together. Once that is done we can have some fun "quilting bee" get togethers where we get to know each other, yammer about the kids, and maybe even gnosh a bit and/or imbibe a drink or two.
Please consider me the point person for this project, at least at this early stage. I'm the sort of dumpy guy with the mostly gray hair and beard that drops off BettyAnn most mornings.
Peace--J
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And if we pull this off it might even keep the youngsters warm when the weather gets really cold (if it gets cold at all) should oil prices keep climbing.
Might I just say, Jonathan, you are an inspiration.
I'm gonna get behind ya on this one J...I've been waiting for an excuse to learn to sew.
If you can outsource piecework to me, I can help with sewing!
I'd be happy to do piecework on this if you can outsource it to me at home!
i'm supposed to be getting my mom's old machine soon...but i haven't sewn in many a year! i'll need a refresher.
I could be of help in this project too. if we break it up, they could also use some squares for pillow cases to match.
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