Our Dream Rocket is on the Pepsi Refresh website!

The Dream Rocket project is in the running for a portion of the $1,300,000 that Pepsi is donating monthly to groups with ideas that will have a positive impact. JoJo, CMoellers, Ritzy and I collaborated on a quilt for the Dream Rocket; Our quilt is on the Pepsi website in the video explaining the concept behind the Dream Rocket project! Way cool.

You can view the video and vote for the Dream Rocket at http://www.refresheverything.com/thedreamrocket Note: Our quilt is at about 1:26 on the video!

You can see my previous posts on the Dream Rocket here.

Dream Rocket (part 5)

This button summarizes our collective dream.

Arlene (Ritzy), Carol (CMoellers), JoJo (LadyQuilter) and I collaborated online to create a submission for the Dream Rocket project. We have never met in person but it was easy collaborate through photos, drawings, email and kindred spirits.

Each quarter of the quilt has photographs that represent our individual communities. Unifying it all is a group of women and children. Notice how the women hand-in-hand form a star? Together we are better, stronger and wiser.

The back of the quilt contains some of our individual thoughts on the project.

A huge Thank you to Arlene, Carol and JoJo for collaborating with me on this project!  You all are awesome!

Here are previous blogs on this project:

What's your dream? (Dream Rocket part 1)

Virtual Quilt Bee (Dream Rocket part 2)

Dream Rocket Project (part 3)

We are cut from the same cloth (Dream Rocket part 4)

We are cut from the same cloth (Dream Rocket part 4)

Have you ever met someone and immediately felt as though you have known them your entire life? Kindred spirits cut from the same cloth?

Our Dream Rocket Quilt is all about community. It represents Arlene, Carol, JoJo and myself; four quilters collaborating over the internet.

It represents our families and our future. 

It represents all those people that silently and without recognition do what is needed to make our global community function and flourish.

We felt it important that the focal point be made from a single piece of hand dyed fabric; that we were all literally cut from the same cloth.

 Next week I will share the completed Dream Rocket Quilt.

If you want to see the 3 previous posts about the Dream Rocket project take a look here.

Dream Rocket Project (part 3)

TQS Ritzy, CMoellers, LadyQuilter and I have been collaborating on a quilt for the Dream Rocket Project. I last told you about it in September and August (click on the link to see the previous posts). 

All four sister quilts are now at my studio and have been joined together into one quilt.  Some special fabric is on its way and will be the special crowning touch. 

When thinking about a subject for the quilt, I thought of the online community of sewers, painters, journalers, quilters and textile artists. There is so much support for one another and yet we have never met in person. We share successes and stories, tips and techniques, and even heartaches when they come.  And this is just one facet (yet an important facet) of my community.

 My dream is that everyone has a community in their life to support, sustain and in turn to encourage to do their part as a member of the global community.

Here are a few patches  that you will find in the crazy quilt of my community:

Astrodome - filled with cots after Hurricane Katrina

Church - teaches us what is truly important and how to be better than we are

School - educates and prepares us for next steps

Military - strives keeps the world safe (GO NAVY, my husband is class of '73!)

SAQA, TQS group,  bloggers, and online community - such a special part of my life

Family - the young children, the oldsters, those with us and those no longer with us but whom we will never forget

Red Cross - after my parents ranch was destroyed by a tornado

Work, vacation and celebrations - remembering the important times and people our life

 Police and Fire Fighters after 9/11 - enough said.

VIrtual Quilting Bee (Dream Rocket part 2)

TQS members Ritzy, Ladyquilter, CMoellers and I are collaborating on a quilt for the Dream Rocket project.  What fun to be in a virtual quilt bee with these talented ladies.  One idea is submitted and the each builds on it making it better and better.  We all have diverse backgrounds and interests but that is what makes the finished product stronger.

We are currently designing the piece: focal point, background, and coloration.  No fabric has been cut yet; We will let you know as it progresses.