Category Archives: Charity Quilts

#IBelieveInBlue 2011-2015

Posted on July 31, 2020 by canucksfan

Canuck Place quilts. We’ve spent 10 years making these quilts. One hundred & sixty four quilts later. Wow! As you know this will be our final #IBelieveInBlue quilt campaign and hopefully we will get the quilts delivered in September. Jackie, … Continue reading →

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2019 I Believe in Blue Quilt Campaign

Posted on September 28, 2019 by canucksfan

September 19, 2019 saw the best part of the 2019 I Believe in Blue quilt campaign, “Delivery Day.” After months of pattern designing, shipping kits, creating quilts, receiving quilts &  flimsies, marathon quilting & binding and finally labeling the quilts…we … Continue reading →

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2018 Canuck Quilt Delivery Day

Posted on April 28, 2019 by canucksfan

Just a little late writing this post for September 2018. Three of my favourite things: September, porches and quilts for Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. It worked out that delivery day would be in September again this year. All the quilts … Continue reading →

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The Evolution of the I Believe in Blue Canuck Quilts

Posted on August 8, 2018 by canucksfan

We are winding up the I Believe in Blue 2018 quilt campaign for Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. I thought it would be fun to see how the quilt patterns and deliveries have changed over the last 7 years with our … Continue reading →

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2017 Canuck Quilt Delivery Day

Posted on September 26, 2017 by canucksfan

September 14: Our seventh delivery day to Canuck Place Children’s Hospice was just as exciting as the previous six. There’s just something so special about this day. This year was a little different in that we delivered in mid September … Continue reading →

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I Believe in Blue 2017

Posted on July 13, 2017 by canucksfan

OMG, it is year seven of our I Believe in Blue quilt campaign! We’ve been working on our Canuck Place quilts since February and will be making the delivery in September this year. <–  Fin spends a lot of time … Continue reading →

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The 2016 I Believe in Blue Quilts

Posted on September 20, 2016 by canucksfan

August 11th marked delivery day for the seventeen quilts from the 2016 quilt campaign. Such a magical day seeing the children, Poppy and staff so happy at Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. After doing a show and tell of  all this … Continue reading →

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We Believe in Blue & Canuck Place

Posted on January 6, 2016 by canucksfan

When we delivered quilts to Canuck Place back in August they promised to send a picture of Lorraine’s quilt to Eddie Lack. They did so via Twitter and he responded with an “awesome.” We can’t help but smile as that’s … Continue reading →

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2015 Canuck Quilt Delivery Day

Posted on August 21, 2015 by canucksfan

Delivery day this year was Tuesday, August 18th. For me it began the day before as I made my way to Tsawwassen so I could sew the labels on those quilts that went home to be bound by their owners … Continue reading →

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2015 Quilting Marathon

Posted on July 23, 2015 by canucksfan

Our 4th annual quilting marathon took place this week. Lots of work: 12 flimsies to be quilted, bound and labeled. We started getting organized on Monday night after dinner. We sorted through the quilts and picked out pantographs. We then prepared … Continue reading →

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