One activity that is quite common to quilt guilds across the country is making quilts to give away to people in need anywhere in the world. Surfside Quilters Guild's about 100 members create four or five hundred quilts each year that are distributed to various organizations. Colorful cotton pillowcases are also produced and given to children's hospitals, Meals-on-Wheels, veterans organizations, and others. Here is a selection from those many donations showing the variety of designs selected. Some are made from orphan blocks, some are incompleted projects donated to the Philanthropic groups, some are purposely made by one maker and others by friendship groups or just friends. I am constantly amazed by the variety of pattern and the generosity of the makers.
I am feeling much better tonight. KoKo walked me around the loop this morning, about 2000 steps, a bit less than a mile. I was tired, but not exhausted as I feared. Tomorrow we may try for the park. The sunshine feels so good and with the rain we had this last week everything is greening up, flowers are blooming.
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I have a group of friends who have decided that their stashes are so big they will never use all their treasures so they started making charity quilts that go to a local parenting organization. Ruta has made over 300 quilts in the past 3 years since she retired. She wore her regular machine out and bought a Handiquilter 16" machine. while her husband was out she had the machine brought in and installed. It was over a year before he ventured in her sewing room and discovered the machine. I think she has to spend a lot of money purchasing batting though she does buy it on rolls over the internet.
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