CHARITY CORNER Projects
• Love Quilt Project
Reach out to Elaine O'Connell before the meeting if you would like to work on sewing the blocks for the Love Quilt Project. We do still have several kits. We have volunteered for several years with a non-profit organization headquartered in Arlington, Va called The Love Quilt Project (http://www.lovequiltproject.org/). This project coordinates school children here in the US, quilters such as us, and other partners to provide Love Quilts to orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa. These quilts are often the only thing these children can call their own and the gifts show them they are loved and can truly change their lives. The Love Quilt Project supplies all the completed art squares (from children here in the US), one logo square, and the log cabin pattern. We select our own fabric to best carry these messages to the children. The quilts will be presented to boys and girls of all ages – infants to teens.
The pattern is here: Pattern. It is essentially log cabin blocks, with the children's art in the center; the blocks are laid out 3 across and 4 blocks down. The bottom right corner block has the Love Quilt Project logo. Once sewn together, the final quilt will be professionally finished by a partner - Springs Creative who will be using specially chosen Love Quilt fabrics to complete the back of the quilt, the fire-retardant batting is supplied by a partner from the Milliken Group. Springs Creative will top stitch the completed Love Quilt top.
View a Love Quilt Project 2023 trip made to deliver quilts: Click here
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Guidelines:
• Love Quilt Project
Reach out to Elaine O'Connell before the meeting if you would like to work on sewing the blocks for the Love Quilt Project. We do still have several kits. We have volunteered for several years with a non-profit organization headquartered in Arlington, Va called The Love Quilt Project (http://www.lovequiltproject.org/). This project coordinates school children here in the US, quilters such as us, and other partners to provide Love Quilts to orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa. These quilts are often the only thing these children can call their own and the gifts show them they are loved and can truly change their lives. The Love Quilt Project supplies all the completed art squares (from children here in the US), one logo square, and the log cabin pattern. We select our own fabric to best carry these messages to the children. The quilts will be presented to boys and girls of all ages – infants to teens.
The pattern is here: Pattern. It is essentially log cabin blocks, with the children's art in the center; the blocks are laid out 3 across and 4 blocks down. The bottom right corner block has the Love Quilt Project logo. Once sewn together, the final quilt will be professionally finished by a partner - Springs Creative who will be using specially chosen Love Quilt fabrics to complete the back of the quilt, the fire-retardant batting is supplied by a partner from the Milliken Group. Springs Creative will top stitch the completed Love Quilt top.
View a Love Quilt Project 2023 trip made to deliver quilts: Click here
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- NICU Charity Challenge!
Guidelines:
- The quilt should measure 36 x 36" square. The top should be pieced, and the binding can be done any way you choose. Please use fabric on the top suitable for a baby and the back should be a solid piece of fabric.
- All fabric should be cotton, no metallic fabric, no embellishments.
- Use cotton batting.
- Do not use monofilament thread or tie the quilts. No rag quilts for this please.
- Quilts can be turned in through November for a chance to win a gift card. Each quilt you turn in qualifies you for a chance for a $25 gift card. There will be 4 drawings. And you can only win once. The drawing will be held at our December meeting, you do not need to be there to win.
- We have a special label available for these quilts, available at the guild meetings.