Community ServiceWe donate quilts to several agencies, such as Catalyst For Change, The Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital; Soroptomist Project for Homebound Seniors; Torres Homeless Shelter (for men) and Jesus Center's Sabbath Room (for women and children).We package fabric, donated by our guild members and quilt shops, in kits for you to begin your project. Kits are available at most guild meetings. Batting and additional fabric (especially backing) are available by calling Sydney Dickson who stores the guild's "stash".
Special Thanks The community service team would like to give special thanks to The Sewing Studio in Durham for donating the machine quilting of two of our larger community service quilts. Linda, the owner was very excited to be participating in our project. In addition, two of our own guild members who are long arm machine quilters have also taken on several of our community service quilt tops to be machine quilted. Thank you to Lynn Pillus and Mary Locke-Kilmer for their donation of machine quilting. If you have a long arm machine or even a domestic one and can quilt tops for your guild’s community service, please contact me or Sydney Dickson. Of course it is the best if you quilt your own top, but occasionally we get just tops or tops that are too big for us to handle. Thank you!
During these hot and smoky days it's a good idea to stay inside. What better way to spend the day than making a quilt. So far this year we have received many beautiful quilts, and as they were inventoried, it was noted that we are very short on lap robes for senior and also children's quilts. Each Christmas the Senior Christmas Program selects a nursing home to donate lap robes to and children's quilts are needed for our donation to Catalyst and the Shriner's Children's Hospital. A small quilt might be just what you need for a quick project. Of course, place mats are also fun and easy way to spend the day. Need ideas or fabric? The guild's stash is awaiting quilters who wish to shop till they drop and not spend any $$$. Give Sydney a call and make an appointment to see the lovely fabric and kits available. The next community service sew day, held at the Honey Run classroom, is scheduled for August 28th from 9:00 to ??. This event is planned to finish projects donated to the guild that need additional work. A major need is to have some of the smaller projects quilted. What a good way to practice your machine quilting skills! Other needs include started projects that need to be finished. Some need borders and others need to be completed as a top. Bring your machine and your lunch and sew the day a way with your guild friends. - Sydney Dickson & Carol Golden
What a great turn out we had for the June Sewing Night! It was one of the largest June sew-ins we've had and the room was buzzing with energy and creativity. Several new guild members, attending a June meeting for the first time, added their enthusiasm and skills to the evening and by the end of the session, several exciting quilt tops were created and will be displayed as they are completed. In addition to organized kits and a fabric "stash", which is available to members of the guild, the committee has made arrangements with Honey Run to schedule sew days in their classroom. Plans are to sew every other month on the fourth Thursday if no class is scheduled. These sew days are planned to finish donated UFO's and quilt tops while enjoying a day out with 'the girls'. During the regular CS meetings, on the alternate months, the committee organizes UFO's and tops with necessary fabric for backs, borders and binding...what ever is needed... then packages them for completion. Smaller quilts are available for members to quilt (A great way to practice your machine quilting), and several members of the guild, with long arm machines, have offered to quilt the larger ones which are difficult to do with a home machine.
MANY THINGS OLD ARE NEW AGAIN I recently received Erica Wilson's book Quilts of America as a gift. The giver saw it in an antique store and thought I might enjoy it. After reading the jacket information about the author and looking at photos of 51 quilts , one from each state and the District of Columbia), I was inspired to use it as the basis of this month's newsletter because it fits so well with the Community Service Committee's focus for the year. The jacket information suggests "You might consider this an art book—a festival of color, shape and imagination." Included in the photos are patterns such as Rail Fence, Log Cabin, Double Wedding Ring, Grandmother's Flower Garden, Baltimore Album Appliqué, Crazy Quilts...all beautiful and all scrap quilts. Grandma made scrap quilts because of necessity. Today, we can make scrap quilts be cause they are lovely to look. On the lighter side, the following provides additional reasons for making scrap quilts.
ADVANTAGES OF SCRAP QUILTS (from: Simple Strategies For Scrap Quilts by Lynn Roddy Brown)
**Don't have scraps...need more scraps.......check out the guild's stash. Call Sydney and "pick a peck of pretty pieces"
Comfort Quilts Distributed - 2007 The Community Service Committee sends a sincere Thank You to all of the individual members and small groups who made quilts for the guild's yearly donations. Also to those who quilted them so beautifully. Members and those who have a quilting business gave of their time and talents especially by quilting the larger twin size quilts. All of the quilts were beautiful and will bring joy to those who receive them. Annie Star Quilt Guild donated 118 quilts to the following agencies:
Our focus on the aging out foster children was a huge success, especially since they are larger quilts. During the coming year the committee will continue to offer Great Beginnings (quilt kits) and fabrics for you to select from our stash. Check out available ideas for quick and easy patterns and websites with free patterns at the Community Service table. Click here to learn more about Community Service.
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