Quilters Guild of the
Southern Crescent
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Community Service

Community Service 2008

        This year we’ll be supporting 2 types of groups: Quilts of Valor and Battered Women’s Shelters.

        The Quilts of Valor Foundation was started by Catherine Roberts, in 2003, when her son was deployed to Iraq.  She appealed to quilt makers to volunteer fabric & talents to make quilts to comfort wounded US soldiers and the families who have lost loved ones in the Iraq war.  There are several websites if you would like to read more about the effort, see quilts and patterns; here’s one: www.govf-um.org.  Desired quilt sizes are a minimum of 50” x 60” and a maximum of 72” x 96” with the ideal size 54” x 67.”  This group encourages your best work, new materials and patriotic colors to honor those who have risked their life for our country and way of life. The group requests quilts be washed once completed and donated in a presentation bag.  Instructions for this will be provided at a future meeting. 

        There are three battered women’s shelters in Fayette and Coweta counties that we will support this year.  These shelters will take any size or pattern quilt suitable for boys or girls, ages infant through teen, and of course women of all ages.  These shelters will appreciate all your scrap and completed UFO quilts in any color of the rainbow. 

        We would like to encourage you to complete one quilt for community service this year.  To help you we are planning two workdays to show new techniques and enlist your support for these groups.

– Lynda Johnson & Joan Willcocks 

Community Service 2007

Dear members and friends, 

Last month, we took 35 quilts to Christian City for the two groups we are supporting this year……the children’s group home and the adult care units. 

We received from the kids.  The management team told us that several of the kids were going away to college and will be leaving in the fall.  They were excited that these children would have something to take with them to their dorms…..something from their home.

We will be taking quilts from you through the November meeting.  So, if you have not already made your quilt, there is still time.    

I often use the community service projects to try a new technique or to improve my quilting skills.  I still have kits available if you need one.  Just give me a call and I will bring some to the next monthly meeting. 

I have served on this committee for two years.  This has been one of the most personally gratifying and rewarding committees in the guild. 

It is almost time for the nominating committee to find someone else for the committee chair and members.  Please think about serving your community and neighbors by taking this committee next year.  You and a friend could work together and have a wonderful time. 

We have already made kits of fabric suitable for almost any project that you would like to do next year.  In addition, we have fabric that has been donated and needs to be made into kits.  So, about half the work of the committee is already done.  

I cannot thank you enough for all the help and time you have given to make these projects successful.  Thank you so much. 

Keep quilting,

Nancy

A Thank-You note for all who made pillowcases for the solders in Iraq:

This note is from Sherry Duncan, mother of a Marine in Iraq:

Dear Ladies of the Guild of the Southern Crescent,

I am the mother of Cpl Matthew Duncan, USMC serving in Iraq whom many of you made the beautiful patriotic pillowcases filled with love and caring!  I have mailed some of them to Matthew, as well as some to a friend’s son who is also a Marine serving in Iraq.  Both will share the pillowcases with all the others in their units.  These young men serving our country will feel the love of each person who made their pillowcases and will be comforted and honored with a homemade pillowcase.  The cases are so beautiful and will enable our service men to sleep without sand scratching their faces!  Thank-you so much for donating your time, talents, and dollars to my son and his fellow Marines! 

Always,
Sherry D