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My handbag team Carried Away is thinking positive for 2010 with our first Challenge of the year.
Growing Hope seeks to express our desire for growth in 2010 - growth of resources and minds throughout the world for the betterment of all. As we usually do, we're donating the proceeds from sales of these items in our team shop to a charity. We put a little twist on it this time, though. Instead of making one donation, we thinking long term by setting up a team account on kiva.org. Each team member is seeding our fund with a $5 entry fee per item. With your help, we hope to raise $150 during this challenge in order to start our cycle of giving with three $50 loans.
Image via CrunchBaseKiva is a micro-lending site that allows you to pick a business person (or cooperative group) and make loans as small as $25. Once the loan is repaid, we will reloan the money to another enterprising person — keeping the cycle of community and individual growth going. It is our way of helping those who help themselves ... and their communities ... to grow and become better.
My entry is titled Shanira (African for "warmed by the sun.") Obviously, from the name of my shop, I have an affinity for all things solar. I am drawn deeply to the fires of creation and the warm glow of friendship and family. The circles in my quilt are representative of the centers and anchors in our lives, the things who make us what we are and ground us. The winding threads are the unexpected connections that allow us to grow and change through learning.
The fabrics are a mix of commercial, hand dyed and hand painted. The hand dyed came from my friend Karen of Ruby Mountain Dyeworks and the hand painted orange is from Molly of Monkey Shine Design. This was the very last of the fat quarter I used to make Lone Heroine.
Shanira measures 9.5" square and is in a 13" square deep bronze chocolate frame.
Check out Shanira and all the other entries in our team shop.
3 comments:
Shanira is a beautiful piece. And Kiva is a good idea. I'll have to go by your team site, and see what I can't live without! Good luck with your project! {:-D
"Solsisters Studio" has been included in this weeks Sites To See. I hope you like the image I featured, and I hope this helps to attract many new visitors (not to mention customers!) here.
http://asthecrackerheadcrumbles.blogspot.com/2010/04/sites-to-see_16.html
Thanks for the inclusion. I appreciate it!
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