Peace "Dove" Machine Embroidered Block #1 and #2

Thanks to two sister-in-laws from North Dakota, the 2 dove blocks were created.

Blessed Home - Available to Travel to Relief Sales

With Relief Sales looking for substitutes for the Basket Traveling Quilt, we offer the "Blessed Home" quilt with the following information:

Size: Queen size
Made by Myra Harder of Winkler, Manitoba.
The quilt can also be a Block of the Month Project and the book is available at quilt shops or from Myra's website, www.bluemeadowdesigns.com. The quilt is also featured on the front of the book.

With the Minnkota and Rocky Mountain Mennonite MCC Relief Sales looking for a Traveling Quilt, they will be using this quilt as an alternative to the Traveling Basket as it can't be available for their two dates.

This quilt can be used to take bids but is not for sale at the auction at this time. Please contact us for additional information and/or see www.MCC.org.

Thank you.

The Quilt was sold at the Twin Cities MCC Relief Sale in 2010.

Stars and Chains - 2 Colored Quilt in Blue and Yellow

Friends and Families living around North America are supporting each other's MCC Relief Sales.  The West Coast MCC Relief Sale donated a quilt to the Twin Cities MCC Relief Sale.  The Stars and Chains quilt was a gift in return from the Twin Cities MCC Relief Sale to the West Coast Relief Sale in Fresno, California. 

The smaller MCC Relief Sales are enjoying the benefits of these relationships.  

Thank you!

"I'm Hungry, Where can I sleep tonight? I want my Mother!"

Information about Quilt:

Approximate Size: 50 x 70
Print Squares are of an African or Polyesnian printed fabric surrounded by hand died fabrics in a simplistic design. The quilt is machine quilted and stitching is accents the printed fabric. The machine quilter, Anita Shakelford, a template quilt designer's donated her services to Mennonite Central Committee, when she heard of the work MCC does globally. The quilt was made by Marlys Wiens. Anita and Marlys met at the Minnesota Quilt Show in Duluth, MN in 2009, where Anita was the Quilt Judge. The added benefit of this quilt has been quilt donations outside the Mennonite and Amish communities.  The quilt's meaning grew when Marlys visited the Mennonite World Conference in Paraguay, South America, in 2009 when on the streets of Ascension she met Carol Ann Weaver and daughter from Kitchner, Ontario and discussed the issue of Aids.  A fellow professor of Carol's "advised" her that she "needed" to write a song bringing awareness to the Aids crisis in the world as a person dies from aids every four seconds.  Four seconds would be a good beat to a song.  As the group talked, Marlys shared that he had a childhood friend in Kitchner, Ontario who she knew from rural Minnesota.  As Carol and Marlys talked further, they realized they were talking about the same person, Lowell Ewert, the Peace Professor at Conrad Grabel.  Carol's CD is available from her called "Every 3 Children" with the song inspired by Lowell.

The picture was taken in the wind with the State of Minnesota Capitol in the background.

The Quilt was sold at the Twin Cities MCC Relief Sale in 2010.

The Basket Traveling Quilt - Texas Mennonite Sale and Auction for World Relief: November 14, 2009, Houston, TX

We displayed the quilt as a backdrop to our Penny Power collection. Penny Power this year was dedicated to food projects. Information about the quilts was shared with people throughout the day. The quilts provided a focus to that area of the sale and more attention then usual. Penny Power was almost $400 above last year.

The Food Basket Traveling Quilt - October 16 and 17, 2009: Rocky Mountain Mennonite Relief Sale, Rocky Ford, CO

The quilt was displayed with the quilts Friday evening and also on Saturday.

During the quilt Auction, Elizabeth Raid and Marlys Wiens gave a brief presentation on why the quilt was made and what the proceeds will go for. Elizabeth represented the Central States MCC Office and of course, Marlys made the quilt. We were thrilled to have her at our sale this year.

The auctioneer then accepted donations for $25, $50, etc. A total of $6,025 was raised.

The Food Basket Traveling Quilt - October 10, 2009 at the MCC Fall Festival in Albany, Or

We had 3 lots of Quilts/comforters to sell by auction. The Traveling Food Basket Quilt was the first number in each of the 3 lots. A short verbal explanation was given each time with the Traveling Quilt displayed next to the auction block platform all day. (We attached it with pins to quilting bars and stood the quilt rights) with sturdy props behind to support it.

1st offered at $1,000 "Blessing Bid", then $500, $250, $100, $50, $25, numerous levels for people to hold up their bidding numbers.

"ALL YOU TAKE HOME IS A BLESSINGS"!

1st lot raised $2,650
2nd lot raised $1,300
3rd lot raised $2,025
Total raised: $5,975!

Submitted by Deanna E.