Toe Away Quilt

Toe Away Quilt

I'm part of an online community of quilters who celebrate each other's joys and support each other in times of need.  One such need happened in the Spring of 2015, when Melissa's husband, Tyler, was involved in a gruesome workplace accident, resulting in the impending loss of a toe.  They had a good sense of humor about it, and even posted about having a "toe away party."  A quilt idea was born!

  Kimberly reached out to a few of us about this idea and we quickly came up with some block submission ideas:   Using bruised colors, Black , Blue, Green, Purple, create a 10" block that is toe or foot themed.   We also asked for 9-patch blocks to be used as setting squares, since Tyler would have only 9 toes.

In typical 'snowflake' fashion, the FB messenger chat was very active with folks posting photos of their quickly done blocks and all-in-good-fun insults about our different sewing styles and preferences  (hand done, fussy cut, funny puns).  Kimberly, the queen of memes, create this gem, 

and then the blocks started arriving in the mail.

Toe Jam

Foot Print, missing toes

  

Twinkle Toes

Toe Truck

Big Foot crossing

Bear paw, missing a toe

Bruised, bloody foot Print

foot print truck

 

Kimberly came to Brooklyn to sew these amazing blocks together, with more 'bruise' colored fabric:

At some point, we learned that Tyler would lose half of another toe, so he would have only 8 1/2 toes,  so every 9-patch block was 'edited' to be 8 1/2 blocks: 

And Kimberly created this very special block: 

Here is the pieced top, which we then mailed out to Janet in CA for quilting.

  

Megan's block arrived a little late to be included in the top, but I used it for the label:

Little Foot

The quilt then went to Flaun for binding,  and sewing on the label, then finally was shipped to Melissa and Tyler in September 2015.

Lots of love there!

Peace