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END THANK YOU TO MEMBERS FOR THEIR WORK IN 2007
It’s been quite a year with Charitable Quilts and I wanted to let you, the
membership, know what you had accomplished. It took me awhile to get a handle
on this process and I’ve decided that this job is like herding cats at times.
I’m not sure you realize the process of a kitted quilt but after the fabric is
selected and cut it is checked out to the members at least 3 times. Once for
the top to be constructed, once to a quilter and once to be bound. I found that
most of the quilts that were completed this year were those that began last
year. I was always surprised at what was turned into me at the meetings. I want
to thank my committee members, Marilyn Anderson and Angie Nofzinger, for helping
me select the fabrics from our donated fabric and cutting the fabric for the
kits. Since the request from the shelters we were working with was for twin
size quilts, that is what we concentrated on this year.
So far this year you finished and we donated 39 quilts. Because 21 were
smaller than twin, they became part of the “Little Quilts” donations. We gave
12 twin size quilts to The Family Tree shelters and 6 to Delores House. These
numbers only reflect quilts from kits or tops that were donated to me. They do
not reflect those little quilts that you gave to Barb or the Crayon Box blocks.
The Crayon Box project results are amazing to me. You—the membership—made
enough blocks that we have constructed 26 twin tops using 20-24 blocks per quilt
and I have enough blocks for 5 or 6 more. I have 23 twin quilts—tops done,
backing constructed, and binding cut—waiting for next year’s budget to buy the
batting and get quilted.
I want to specifically thank all of you who made blocks for this project. I
also want to thank all the quilters—both members of the long arm quilters group
and our members who agreed to help. Quilting does make the quilt. We received
many fabric and batting donations during the year and I’m not sure I thanked all
those people properly. I sometimes got home with fabric that I wasn’t sure
where it came from. If you gave something and I didn’t get your name, thank you
and please forgive me for not being on top of it.
In keeping with our 5013C status and charitable goals that make that possible,
we will be working on new ideas for next year to, hopefully, find some more
projects that our members would like to do. We will be happy to collect any
projects that you have completed at the January meetings so bring them in, but
we won’t have any specific requests or kits to check out until February. At
that meeting, we will introduce our new ideas for next year. We realize that
one size doesn’t fit all and people like to do different types of things so we
are currently working on developing ideas. Thank you again for all your help
and great work.
Charitable Activity from the November meeting—after the report above
A quilt was made by a group that Orie Hopp belongs to and she gave it to me
requesting that it be sent to the Quilts of Valor program. I took it to Deb
Geissler and she gave us some backing fabric from her stash that was perfect and
then quilted it for me to take back to Orie this month. Orie is binding it and
sending it along to the program. Great job ladies!
We received 48 Crayon Box Blocks at the last meeting. Thanks to all who brought
them in.
The following people donated fabric or batting: Julie Birdwell, Kelly Collins,
Bev Heinz French, Ellen James, and Ruth Yoon. Thanks to all of you for thinking
of us.
