Chandra Wilson, from Grey’s Anatomy, was on the Martha Stewart Show to teach us how to sew quilts for Children.  Chandra is a spokesperson for Downy’s Touch of Comfort cause, which raises money to give sick children colorful and gorgeous quilts… what a beautiful idea!  I wish they would give an address where we could make our own quilts and send them to be distributed to sick children.

The quilts were a very basic quilt (one solid piece for the front and back of the quilt, some batting, rick rack and yarn or thread to tie the quilt).  Here is the diagram for how to place the ties … the brilliant “Martha Moment” to me was that she put her needle in and out at each “x” to anchor the thread, and then moved on to an adjacent “x” until she formed a square shape out of thread.  Then Martha cut the squares in the center of each side of the square, which made it very easy to tie the two thread tails and form knots for the quilt!