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Suncoast Quilting Circle Community Service (updated 8/26/10)
The Suncoast Quilting Circle is very active with community service projects. For example, we make lap quilts, bibs, preemie hats, wheelchair and walker bags, booties for nursing homes, hospitals, and centers for preschoolers and infants. The most popular item that members choose to make is the lap quilts.
Since our last show, the quilters in the guild have also given of themselves by making special quilts for our servicemen
and women in Iraq. This will be an ongoing project until every service member returns.
In our commitment to the next generation, we helped the Guardian Ad Litum Suncoast Voices for
Children Foundation on National Adoption Day to create special quilts designed by the children, which was auctioned off to
raise funds. Another project that is also close to our hearts is making baby quilts for Project Linus.
As hurricane Katrina hit the shores of our country, our guild again joined the many relief efforts and made 33 bed quilts in 2 weeks.
As hurricane Katrina hit the shores of our country, our guild again joined the many relief efforts and made 33 bed quilts in 2 weeks.
Other donations from
our guild include books for local libraries, contributions to Hospice, WUSF-TV Channel 16 and St. Petersburg College Educational
Scholarship Fund.
Community Service
Update
by Alberta Dalke. Community Service Liaison
For this year we will continue to add more projects to help our community. I have some ambitious plans for this year.
I have outlined several projects which you can choose to participate in. To read more information, click here on the
March 2009 Community Service Letter
Also, please check the Calendar page for upcoming
community sewing days.
April
2010 Newsletter has the Lap Quilt Guidelines & requirements.
June 2010 Newsletter has the Crochet instructions for the baby hats.
Also working with our Community Service
Liaison, our very own member Barbara Trapp of Paradise Quilting, is one of the State Coordinators for OPERATION SUPPORT FOR DEPLOYED MILITARY please click on this link to go to their website. Under the "Projects" tab at the top of their
website you will find a list of projects they need. Click on anyone of the projects from the drop down menu to learn
about it and click the link to get instructions. Any projects you complete can be brought to any guild meeting and we
will make sure it gets to the proper coordinator. Be sure to check out the list of acceptable items that can & can
not be sent in the stocking stuffers; these will be collected at the meeting too. On the "Coordinators"
page you will see the total contributed to date. We can all make a difference, thank you for your continued support. Click on the link here for more pictures of our Community Service gallery.
click on a picture for a larger
view.
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