Quilted Heart Project
26th Nov 2021
Everyone loves a nice surprise! This holiday season, Cotton Cuts is spreading joy by supporting the “I Found A Quilted Heart” project. Making a little heart using scraps from your sewing projects can be a great way to brighten someone’s day with a random act of kindness. This fantastic program encourages sewists of all abilities to create fabric hearts and leave them in public places for a stranger in need of kindness. As a Cotton Cuts team member I find so much joy seeing and touching all the beautiful fabrics that go out in our monthly fabric membership boxes and I love the idea of using every last piece of fabric to make something meaningful.
Our Cotton Cuts team members took some time this past week to create this beautiful assortment of fabric hearts to be placed in the communities in which they live and places they will visit over the holidays. Here is the link to the I Found A Quilted Heart website with the specific information on how the program works.
We all have endured quite a bit of stress over the last 18 months with many people in need of kindness this holiday season. For me personally it gave me a good feeling just picking out the fabrics and sewing for the unknown person who will find it. The website has some guidelines of where to place the hearts with the following suggestions:
Do not hand, give or gift hearts to people. (Hearts need to be “found.”)
Do not leave hearts on personal or private property, such as a front porch, vehicle, door, desk, bicycle, mailbox, gate, hotel rooms, break rooms, office, etc. (Not public and not random.)
Do not leave hearts inside any kind of retail store or on retail displays. (Can be mistaken for merchandise.)
Do not leave hearts in airports. (Homeland security does not approve!)
Do not leave hearts in National Parks or National Wilderness areas. (Federal Regulation Title 36, 2.22 (a))
Do not leave hearts in bathrooms, restrooms, washrooms, etc. (Unsanitary)
Do not leave in places where they may be thrown away by staff. (Super Sad)
Examples of good places to sow hearts: A local park, hiking trail, highway rest stop, community center, outdoor shopping center, town square, foyer of public place, community bulletin board, beach, nature trail, museum, tourist attraction, trees, bushes and fences in downtown areas, etc. Be imaginative and creative when looking for just the right public place to sow a heart and have fun!
My plan is to leave a heart hanging on a tree branch along my favorite biking path. It is close to an Animal Hospital where someone may be feeling sad about the health of their pet. To keep the tag protected from the elements I covered it in clear tape and sewed it in place on the front of the heart. Here is a link to Print a Tag. This is the basic information to be attached to the heart.
I NEED A HOME!
I Found A Quilted Heart
#IFAQH
Join Cotton Cuts in the effort to use fabric from your stash or scraps to sew a simple heart to spread brightness and cheer to people in all walks of life. We invite you to share the ideas from the #IFAQH website with your local guild or quilting friends to expand these small acts of kindness as far and wide to as many people as possible. Quilters understand how sewing bits of fabric together can help us get through the toughest times creating something tangible to share our love. On your mark, get set, sew!