Welcome to Quilt Aid USA 2010
12 designers join with 6 shops to bring you a wonderful choice of quilts to make with the added benefit of supporting a charity!
Collect blocks from all six shops!
Visit www.quiltaidusa.com
for a list of the shops,
their blocks, and all the finishing kits!
Order now our blocks will start shipping on November 1st. Our kits have all the fabric you'll need to make your blocks plus instructions for constructing the block. Price includes shipping, please order your block according to where it will be sent US or international destinations.
Click the button to order "Pieced from the Heart" by Sue Daley
for US Shipment
Click this button to order "Pieced from the Heart" by Sue Daley for International Shipment
Click this button to order "Where the heart is ..." by Brenda Riddle
for US Shipment
Click this button to order "Where the heart is ..." by Brenda Riddle
for International Shipment
Quilting by the Bay Finishing Kit
Our Quilting by the Bay finishing kit contains all the Collection for a Cause - Hope fabrics you will need to complete this beautiful 100" x 100" quilt top. Your kit also includes complete instructions for assembling the quilt. Our quilt is beautiful yet easy to construct using half Log Cabin blocks.
Click on the photo above to see our shop tour
How to Participate:
Go to quiltaidusa.com for current information. Click on the outer blocks and the link will take you to the corresponding participating shop to purchase that block. Once you’ve collected all 12 blocks, click on the Finishing Kit Gallery link, move your cursor over each thumbnail at the top of the page to view each shop’s finishing kit. Click on the thumbnails to go to corresponding shop and purchase kit. You can also print out a checklist and fabric guide on the Quilt Aid website to keep yourself organized.
About Quilt Aid:
Funds raised from QuiltaidUSA 2010 will be donated to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia through the Hamlin Fistula Relief and Aid fund Australia AND The Fistula Foundation USA.
Hamlin Fistula® Australia Limited is the authorised Australian representative of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia. It administers the Hamlin Fistula® Relief and Aid Fund which is a registered Australian charity with tax deductible status. The Hamlin Fistula® Relief and Aid Fund is the only charity in Australia solely dedicated to supporting the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital.
The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital was founded by Dr Catherine Hamlin AC and her late husband, Dr Reg Hamlin OBE, and is dedicated to the treatment and care of women who suffer horrendous childbirth injuries, known as obstetric fistula.
Obstetric fistula is caused by prolonged obstructed labour when a woman will spend days in labour without any medical help or pain relief. If she survives this ordeal she will give birth to a still born child and her internal injuries will cause her to be incontinent of urine and sometimes bowel contents as well.
She will spend the rest of her life a destitute outcast unless she can get to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital or one of its outreach centres.
The surgical technique developed by the Hamlins successfully cures 93% of obstetric fistula cases. The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital has established a purpose–built village called Desta Mender ("Village of Joy") to provide long term care for women whose childbirth injuries are so severe that they cannot return to live a normal Ethiopian village life. At Desta Mender the women are trained in new skills so that eventually they can re–enter Ethiopian society as "citizens of the world" once again.
The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital is committed to the UN Millennium Development Goals and particularly those directed towards – improving maternal health, reducing infant mortality and empowering women. It has established the Hamlin College of Midwives to train young Ethiopian women as midwives to work in the Ethiopian countryside amongst women who presently have little or no access to medical help during their pregnancy and labour. The mission of the Hamlin College of Midwives is to have a midwife in every Ethiopian village.
The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital relies entirely on donations from overseas to fund its vital work of improving maternal health, reducing infant mortality and empowering women. Australian tax deductible donations can be made through this website to the Hamlin Fistula Relief® and Aid Fund.
For further details on the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, Dr Catherine Hamlin, the country of Ethiopia, fistula surgery, childbirth and maternal health in Ethiopia and the Hamlin College of Midwives, visit their website