Hello, everyone:
Welcome to the Angel Quilt Project.
We are a nonprofit group of cross stitchers from around the world who use our talents to help families with premature babies, as well as families who have children under the age of 16 in either Regional Burn Centers or Children's Cancer Clinics from around the world.
If you're wanting to help us then please get in touch with me and I'll get the general instructions sent to you as soon as possible
What we do here is use either cross stitch or machine embroidery and then use those finished pieces as center-pieces for our hand-made blankets. Those blankets can be as small as 24" x 24" and as large as 36" x 36". Those sizes are for the preemies. For the older children they and as large a twin-sized, or they can be just lap blankets. The larger pieces are usually 'themed', meaning that the designs used on them usually relate to each other. For instance, we might use a group of the Animal Babies by Ellen Maurer-Stroh, or the freebies listed on the Vermillion web-site. We even use things like toys and stuffed animals.
Whatever we do use we try our best to make sure they are 'childish' for the preemies and 'mature' enough for the older children. LOL! We will even do requested blankets for the older children provided we are given enough of a time span to get it completed and yes, we have done a couple of these.
We have links on the web-site for other charts and patterns we use in the project, so don't feel like you're limited to just those that I've mentioned. For instance, the very gracious people at Designs by Gloria and Pat have given the Angel Quilt Project permission to use the Precious Moments and Cherished Teddy designs for our blankets and to them we send a very sincere 'Thank you!'. Ellen Maurer-Stroh has even designed two angels for the AQP, along with Teresa Wentzler and Marilyn Lovett-Imblum has also done a design for us, along with several others, so please peruse our Charts listings.
So far we've got Divisions of the AQP here in the US, as well as in the UK and Canada and I'm trying to re-establish a Division in Australia. You'll find information on those Divisions elsewhere on the site as well.
If you have any questions regarding the projectplease feel free to contact me at angelafghanproj @ aol.com, and I will get back to you.
Again, thank you for your interest in the project and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
James Farmer, Founder
The Angel Quilt Project
| 
