Spread the Cheer!!!

Hi Everyone

First I would like to mention how I came to contribute to Shruti's Spread the Cheer project.  I was invited to donate some blocks to the Global Quilt Project for the Central Africa Republic.  http://www.globalchange.me/Global_Quilt.html

The quilt blocks will be used to make quilts for auction to fund latrines for a school.  On the Global Quilt Project site Amy Allen posted some of the people who responded with blocks and links to their blogs. It was here that read about Shruti's project to make 40 quilts for an orphanage in India on her blog.  http://13woodhouseroad.blogspot.com/2010/05/baby-quilts-for-orphanage.html

So from these two events I found home for several orphan blocks for the Global Quilt Project and well as a box of fabric that I wasn't going to use, is now on it's way to Shruti to help her out with her 40 quilts. 

I know that there are all kinds of wonderful and charitable quilting projects out there and perhaps this site may be used as a way to communicate about what is out there and who is working on what.  Some projects are as simple as provide a donation of blocks or fabrics which works for those people who are busy at the moment and don't have time to make complete quilts.  There are other projects that require the donation of completed quilts which require a whole different level of time and financial commitment and those distinctions would have to be made very clearly. 

I know personally with me working full time, my spare time is pretty much spoken for certain projects for the next many months, but a donation of fabric or a few blocks is managle while a completed quilt isn't.  What do others think?