Celebrate Worldwide Quilting Day with the Illini Country Stitchers
and create a coaster or mug rug using fabric scraps.

In this drop-in program, join members of the Illini Country Stitchers
and learn how to transform fabric scraps into colorful works of art. There's a craft for all ages.

• For ages 5 - 8
  • Fill a small, presewn, fabric bird with lentils and add a few embroidery stitches.

• For ages 9 - Adults
  • Use collage scraps to make fabric and use big-stitch handstitching/sashiko
    in parallel rows to secure the collaged fabrics to make a colorful coaster/mug rug.

Since 1985, the Illini Country Stitchers have brought like-minded quilters together
to share their skills, learn from nationally-known quilters, and to support philanthropic
projects that include making quilts for Project Linus, which are given to children
at local hospitals; making patriotic quilts for veterans through Quilts of Valor;
working with Cunningham Children's Home; and supporting Crisis Nursery.
The group meets on the second and fourth Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.
at St. Peter's United Church of Christ, 905 S. Russell Street in Champaign.