 In June 2007, Silver Linings Originals decided to create a quilt to help a dog rescue group get funds to care for their rescue dogs. Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network (CPCRN) entered and was honored to receive this quilt for our fundraising purposes. Love That Pound Puppy Quilt has been independently appraised and valued at $4,500.00 - this is a tremendous gift to us.
CPCRN dogs come from many places - some are direct owner or breeder surrenders to us, some come from Puppymill auctions, but many come from shelters all over the country. |
 CPCRN Volunteers search Petfinder listings and contact their local shelters to try to find cairns and cairn mixes in need of assistance. We provide support to the shelters for the harder to adopt out cairns which may be in need of behavioral assistance or medical care (see Miracle's story HERE.) We do not refuse a cairn simply because they are old - in fact, the oldest cairn we have taken in so far was 17 years old. By accepting these dogs into our program we can save them from being euthanized while also opening up space at that shelter for other dogs to have a chance at life. Many of our volunteers have decades of experience with cairns and are used to their wily ways. |
 The drawing will be during our Cairn Rescue Awesome Party (CRAP) held in Romoland, CA on Saturday, April 19, 2008. You need not be present to win. Squares are sold at this webpage, or in person at the CRAP only. While we will advertise this at all Col. Potter events, we will not be selling squares in person except at the CRAP. All profits will be used exclusively in assisting, rescuing and rehoming Cairns in need. Typical expenses include: veterinary care for pre-existing conditions, necessary shots, spaying or neutering, fees paid to shelters where Cairns are found and initial boarding for rescues when there is any question as to their health or temperament. CPCRN is a 100% volunteer organization - we have no paid employees.
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 Notes from Linda Hibbert - proprietor of Silver Linings Originals: My "BEST IN SHOW, ALL BREED AKC" quilt was featured in Quilters Newsletter in 2007. This quilt, consisting of 7 full size quilt panels and spanning nearly 40 horizontal feet incorporates all of the AKC dog breeds, arranged in AKC groups. While the quilt is too large to be entered and judged in most quilt shows it will be on exhibit around the country occasionally. In April 2008 it will be a featured exhibit at the MQX show in New Hampshire. Their charity for the year is the New Hampshire Humane Society. I will have a charity quilt there to be auctioned off as well.
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 While creating the BEST IN SHOW quilt, many dog blocks were made that could not be used in the final composition. Many of these 'reject blocks' (pound puppies) are now being incorporated into charity quilts for donations to rescue or research organizations across the country. The first of these "LOVE THAT POUND PUPPY" has been given to COL. POTTER CAIRN RESCUE NETWORK. Their extensive online network will publicize and feature this quilt until April of 2008 when it will go home with a lucky raffle winner…..
I anticipate that this is only the first of many charity quilts that will be donated to worthy organizations for the benefit of our four legged friends!
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 In the meantime, I freely give permission to other quilters to use my patterns for similar circumstances. The patterns are my business, so they are not donated, but their use is encouraged. I only ask that my name, Linda Hibbert, be listed as pattern designer on the label of any products produced from my patterns.
The "LOVE THAT POUND PUPPY" quilt top was assembled using my dog blocks, scrappy set blocks provided by Noreen Duncan of Canada (a Cairn Terrier enthusiast) and the quilting skills of Sandy Hill. Other donated fabrics were incorporated into the borders. When the top was completed, I did the quilting on my Gammill Longarm.
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 The quilt was appraised by a certified quilt appraiser, Jeannanne Wright of Longmont, Colorado. The following comments are a synopsis of her report. The full appraisal will be sent to the winner. This is a large quilt, 70" by 87" and was made in 2007. It uses a variety of quilt construction methods, including paper pieced dogs, machine pieced squares, machine quilted and machine embroidered labeling of dog names. The fabrics are cotton solids and prints and the batting is also cotton. This quilt is heavily quilted with feathered bands, one inch parallel bands on the border, and ribbons, meander and crescent shapes in the blocks. There are three mitered borders. The backing is two different dog prints.
The construction and quilting are excellent. The quilt is new, unused and unwashed. Visually graphic and exciting, outstanding paper piecing technique, maker designed the dog patterns and is internationally known for her patterns.
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 In order to generate the most revenue for our rescue, Linda has generously allowed us to use the image of the Love That Pound Puppy Quilt as well as the individual squares in our Cafe Press Store. We only have the full quilt up at this time, but as we add the additional squares, we will have links to their specific Cafe Press store by clicking the pictures on this page. This will allow many of us to get T-shirts, Tote Bags, Tile Boxes and more with these images. To go directly to the Love That Pound Puppy Quilt page, please click here
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 As usual, we will continue to have our incentive prizes for most referrals by dollar amount and by number of people referred. We will gift a lap sized quilt to the rescue organization that has the most dollars referred to us as noted on the pledge forms. We will gift a $50 gift certificate to Silver Linings Originals to the quilt guild that has the most dollars referred to us as noted on the pledge forms. In both the case of the Quilt Guilds or Rescue Organizations, if there is a tie in dollar amount, we will randomly choose a single organization of each type from those who tied. For every $5 donation or like quantity thereof, a pledge square or squares will be assigned to the donor [i.e. a donation of $20.00 would entitle a donor to have their name placed in four squares] .
SPECIAL INCENTIVE: BUY SQUARES IN GROUPS OF FIVE! For each group of five raffle squares you buy at one time, you will automatically receive one bonus tote square.
EXTRA SPECIAL INCENTIVE: BUY SQUARES IN GROUPS OF TEN! For each group of ten raffle squares you buy at one time, you will automatically receive two bonus tote squares and one bonus shirt square. The tote bag will have a pieced dog picture of your choice on one side of the bag. The shirt will be a high quality Denim shirt in the size of your choice - with a pieced dog picture appliqued to the back of the shirt. The winner will be able to pick their choice of dog from Linda's Canine Corner. You will need to pick a dog that has a 'Quilt Block' option. Because of the nature of the customization of these bonus prizes, it may take a month for their delivery. We do not have pictures of the tote at this time as the samples are still under construction.
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 When working dog rescue, you are constantly hunting for funds to help care for the dogs in your care, and to allow you to help more. This quilt came to us like a bolt from the blue, and we can never express our gratitude to Linda and all who helped her construct it. It is stunningly gorgeous and as the first recipient of one of her Pound Puppy Quilts, we can only hope we can do it justice. We have a 'goal' of having 2000 squares pledged but would be ecstatic if more came in.
For those not familiar with Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network, our main website is http://www.cairnrescue.com/ - Please browse around. We can suggest checking out our Available Cairns for the dogs currently in care, or our Faces of Rescue Foster Dog Pictorial to see the many dogs we have cared for in recent years. If you are wondering where we got such a strange name, check WHO WE ARE and read about the little cairn in whose memory we work.
Once again, Thank YOU Linda and Silver Linings Originals for this opportunity.
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