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As we now enter the 7th year of charity quilt making we have supported many worthy causes - Parkinson's UK, Alzheimer's Society, British Heart Foundation and Blood Cancer UK - and this year we are proud to announce we are supporting another amazing charity - Sands 'Saving babies Lives & Supporting Bereaved Families, (Please see the story behind this charity at the bottom of the page). But we need our fantastic customers support once again.
The Bramble Patch will be designing & creating the blocks each month using the Indigo Cheddar II fabric collection by Andover Fabrics as the colours tie in beautifully with 'Sands'. The fabric will create our hand stitched "Shine Bright" charity quilt for 2025 (designed by Alicia Armstrong). We have a limited number of Indigo Cheddar bundles available to purchase or alternative you choose your own colour palette.
This year's subscription to our "Shine Bright" charity quilt can be made via a one-off minimum donation of £40.00 donation to the Just Giving Page, please click for more info.
You will then receive a MONTHLY email (sent on the first Friday of each month) containing the pattern to create a pieced patchwork triangle on a 16" sheet of Creative Grids graph paper. There will be 12 patterns in total which are designed to be completed by hand / EPP.
Your pattern each month will include:
- a graph pattern to be drawn out on 16" graph paper (available to purchase via our website - we strongly recommend using only Creative Grids graph paper as it is suitable weight for EPP templates)
- colour placement illustration
- photograph of block completed using the "Indigo Cheddar II" collection.
There will be a number of options to complete you creation which will be revealed at the end of the year.
If this sounds like the ideal way to donate to a worthy cause AND enjoy a year of patchwork & quilting whilst creating an amazing quilt then please use the link below to make your donation - once you have made you donation please send us an email confirming the donation and we will add you to the monthly subscription list.
If you have any queries please don't hesitate to contact us and thank you in anticipation of your continued support - we truly do appreciate it.
Bramble Stitchers Emma's Story,
I’m preparing to walk the entire coastal route of the Isle of Wight in one go, walking through the night, to raise money for Sands and to raise awareness of pregnancy loss—a cause very close to my heart.
Fourteen years ago, I lost my firstborn son when he was born prematurely at just 24 weeks. He was too tiny to survive, and after seven agonizing days, we made the heart-wrenching decision to let him go. It was an experience that changed my life forever.
With my later pregnancies Sands provided me with incredible support, arranging extra scans and offering constant monitoring both physically and mentally. Thanks to their help I have been extremely lucky that the complications were detected early and I am blessed to have two health children, Zoe and Toby.
This walk is my way of honoring my firstborn son’s memory and expressing my gratitude to Sands for the critical support they provided during my pregnancies with Zoe and Toby. By sharing my story, I hope to raise awareness about pregnancy loss and the importance of the work Sands does to support families through their most difficult times.
Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, operates across the UK: supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby; working in partnership with health professionals to ensure that bereaved parents and families receive the best possible care; and promoting improvements in practice and funding research that could help to reduce the loss of babies’ lives.
We depend on the amazing energies of our supporters to raise the vital funds that we need to deliver the wide range of services that we offer. #TeamSands