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This is an exciting video for me to share with you today. 

As a community we have raised over $235,000 to help the children of Ukraine via Unicef.  I shared a quilt pattern that so many of you have sewn for charity by raffling it for funds, giving to people, and hanging in your community. 

Being able to deliver my quilt to the Lutheran World Relief (LWR) and having a tour of the operation, priceless! It was so exciting to see this operation in action. 

Thank you to Karla Walker of our community, with over 25 years of charity ...

Two months ago I decided to make a few blue and yellow blocks for Ukrainian refugee quilts. I never imagined it would grow to this.  We've made 360 blocks in total.  I received blocks from:

Tauranga Patchwork and Quilters 

Capital Quilters

Howick Quilting Friends (both groups)

Glenys in Auckland (the kiwi blocks)

Marina in Feilding

Jeanette in Australia

Vivienne in Napier

Mary in Ashburton

Sue ...

So much has happened since I first wrote about the quilts for Ukrainian refugee children a few weeks ago. (You can read that post here.)

from Glenys in Auckland

My first 20 blocks turned into a quilt top

I got carried away and made 20 blocks before I even knew what I was doing! I could see on Instagram that Claudia @pfeilclaudia in Germany was receiving blocks from around the world every day, so I decided to turn my first 20 blocks into a quilt top to speed up the process when it gets to Germany. I asked Claudia for ...

Claudia Pfeil in Germany is leading a team of wonderful women making quilts for Ukrainian refugee children.

I became aware of this via her Instagram account, and I offered to collate blocks from New Zealand quilters and post them over to Germany.  

The charity quilts ready to be gifted.

Ukrainian children receiving their quilts in Germany

I've chosen to get involved because Claudia is a woman of action.  She isn't just calling for blocks, she's finished some quilts already and has already started distributing them to the Ukrainian refugee children in Germany. Here are some examples of ...

This post from the folks at A Mighty Girl explains the do's and don'ts of donating in a crisis.   Basically, send money rather than stuff.   We have done that.

But quilters gotta quilt and I've made a blue-and-yellow block to send to German quilter Claudia Pfeil.  My assumption is that she will get quilts to Ukraine when the time is appropriate.  Here is more information and her address.  

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I have deadlines. I have promises to keep. I have signed a contract that I must honor.

I have to scream till I am hoarse.  So here it is...

I have been superbusy working on projects that I cannot share at this time.  

To be revealed later

But when Angela announced the RSC color for March, I had to take a break. I rummaged through my box of yellows. 

Yellows for March

And found these two fabrics. Sharing with Angela's Linky party.

Sunflower - Bright

Sunflowers - Subdued

As I incorporate them in to my March RSC blocks, I will be thinking of Ukraine, its brave people and their remarkable President, who finds himself in an unimaginably difficult situation. 

Must start somewhere

Work in Progress

Last week, scared and horrified ...