Shannons Quilts Need Your Help

Shannons Army is an Australian Group who provide quilts to Terminally ill children and adults so they have a little home comfort whilst staying in hospital.

Shannons Army needs donations to make sure they can keep the program running, they are looking for donations 100% Cotton Fabric / thread/ DMC thread /backing fabric /batting/wadding lace and rick/rack items for crazy quilting/ Calico.

And of course if you have a completed quilt they would LOVE that too.

Sending some of your sitting supplies is a great way to clear out your shelves as well helping people in need. A little donation goes a long way.

For more information about the program visit their website Shannons Army or send donations direct to

Shannon’s Army-

PO Box 506

Laverton 3028,

Australia

In Loving Memory

Shannon John Mark Lawler

Mason jars are fun to craft with, use for storage or even use to hold gifts like baking mixes or sugar scrubs. But you can make your jars even cuter — no matter what you’re using them for — by adding a bit of cross stitch to the lid.

This idea comes from Gathered, and while they are showing examples of Mason jars used for storage in the craft room, you can use these throughout the house. I’m also thinking you could do this as a way to fancy up a traditional Mason jar sewing kit, since there’s already a little batting under the piece of cross stitch you could still use it as a pincushion.

The post walks you through how to make a cross stitched Mason jar lids and a link to a PDF pattern that includes six design options.

They’re not totally for beginners because they include cross stitch, backstitch, eyelets and Rhodes stitch, but if you aren’t familiar with those techniques you can either leave them off or there’s a stitch diagram in the PDF to help you.

Either way these designs are cute and relatively quick to stitch in whatever colors you like. It’s easy to turn them into jar toppers, or you could even just use the Mason jar ring as a frame rather than using it on top of a jar (I did this with a little Christmas tree cross stitch pattern I turned into an ornament).

They’re super cute in the pastel colors shown, or work in red and green for more of a holiday look if you’re using them for gift giving.

Check out the instructions and grab the free patterns for these jar toppers at Gathered. Once you start stitching I’m sure you’ll come up with all sorts of things you want to store or gift in jars so that you can make more of them!

[Photo: Gathered]

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