January 29, 2014
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
In January, 2014, the most random thing happened while vacationing in Nevada. The Three Sisters and our husbands took a day trip to Valley of Fire State Park. While hiking, we found a heart near a cave in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing to identify the maker or what to do with it, just a tag that said, “I need a home.”
Once we were home, we searched abandoned art projects, the web, geocaching coordinates, and anything we could think of to find out what this heart was and what it meant. After weeks of searching, we decided that this little heart brought us so much joy, that we should do the same for others. We created a website, started a Facebook page and started sewing hearts. We took short day trips and started leaving hearts in public places for random strangers to stumble upon. And IFAQH was started.
We have bike ride board meetings, tweaking IFAQH to be the project that it is today. IFAQH has had a few minor changes over the years, but our heart is to keep the project simple, grow organically, remain anonymous, focus on the heart finder and always adhere to being neutral, with no hidden agenda.
The Three Sisters have been inspired for over 10 years and want to thank all the finders for sharing their stories of finding their quilted heart.