Helping our communities

I have been working on two raffle quilts these past two weeks. What better way to share your quilting talent than to create quilts to be used for raffles to raise funds for a non-profit organizations. Our Fair Association had a block contest last year for contestants and I am now putting the blocks into a quilt top I designed. The theme of the blocks are blueberries. A friend of mine, Linda Trickey, helped with the design of this quilt. The top is done and now waiting for it to be machine quilted. Here is a computer design of the quilt created on EQ6, an incredible software program that can do it all. A real picture will soon follow as soon as I find two people tall enough to hold the quilt for a picture. It is a huge quilt.



The second raffle quilt is a major fund raiser for my quilt guild. Friends and Needle Quilt Guild www.friendsandneedle.org. The colors are in the beautiful tropical colors, turquoise, purples, greens, blues and red violets. Here is a computer drawing of the quilt sampler for our Guild's 25th Anniversary which will soon be made into fabric. Our group is 80 members strong with many talents. In 1984 our founder, Karen Gallop, started a small group of quilters who wanted to get together to share their quilting passion. To date we have grown from 10 members to over 80 members in our 25 years. Our guild sponsors a chapter of Project Linus, a non-profit organization that creates and gives blankets to children in need in their communities. To date we have given over 500 hundred blankets. This past month, our membership sponsored a Make A Blanket Day and made over 170 blankets to stock our cupboards for those wonderful children who have suffered a tragedy in their family, a loss or under medical care. Quilt Guilds have the ability to change lives and our guild proves that. I am honored to be part of a group of women who love quilting and make positive changes in our communities.