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Quilting for Charities

I’m one of the 3 co-chairs (my two sister-in-laws are the others) for our quilt guild. We chair the “Baby Quilts” function of our quilt guild.   Members donate their unwanted baby fabrics & batting for the use in these baby quilts.  We also have free patterns they can use if they choose to make their own quilt.  Each quilt gets a very pretty label on the back:

All year long our quilt guild collects baby quilts to give out to our local charitable agencies.  Once a year we invite local charitable agencies to come to our quilt guild meeting and accept our quilts.

Last year we handed out at least 200 quilts, all made by the members of our guild, to 8 local charities. It’s very rewarding to see their faces as they take these quilts!

This year we had a ”quilt bee” at our meeting and “Baby Quilts” had volunteers cutting kits, labeling quilts, and sewing quilts. Our quilt guild is so big (150ish members)! It was fun to sit and talk with these helpful members.

Posted by granny on Aug 8th 2008 | Filed in Quilt Guilds | Comments (0)