Monday, February 13, 2023

36 Kids/Teens quilts fly to Turkey

 While our plan was to drop off all our children's quilt in stock to the Naugatuck police station (they had advertised on the morning news that they were taking donations to send to Turkey/Syria to help their people after the HUGE earthquake), they were overrun with donations and when I drove our quilts down there, they werent accepting anymore! It was only 2 days since it was announced. The dispatcher suggested to check out any churches/Red Cross to see if anyone else is sending supplies. So, I sat in my car in the parking lot if the police station,  googled who else in CT was collecting donations and stumbled upon a Mosque in New Haven... only 25 mins away. I called to make sure someone was still actively collecting donations. They were.

Off i go... dropping off 36 quilts, since they were shipping off a shipment this evening! Three others i kept, as they werent tied (project Linus quilts). Here are the quilts we sent...

Fleece quilts
Fleece quilts
Fleece quilts
Fleece quilt

Project Linus quilt
Fleece quilts
Fleece quilts
Project Linus quilt
Made with some orphans
Panel (cutup)
Panel (cutup)
Orphans...



"Leftover" quilt
I Spy quilt
Project Linus quilt
Project Linus quilt
Orphan quilt blocks
Orphan quilt blocks
Panel cutup quilt
Panel cutup quilt
Panel cutup quilt
Fat quarter bundle
Some panel cutups
Declutter panel from Mardens!

Last one needed to be finished from our declutter session.

Due to my contracting Covid-19, we had to postpone our Feb mtg until the 18th.
Tganks ladies for all you do!!




Beginning the year 2023

 In January, we decided to clean out our storage area at St Peters Episcopal church. Since we had our ladies who could only meet until 12-12:30 on our usual mtg date, we limited our decluttering to projects/orphans/kits/batting.

This is what our space looked like before decluttering...

We left all the batting scraps and the 2 large rolls alone. We gave any new bags of crib size/ craft size to Kathy, our "QFH" (quilter from home), as she usually can work on that size comfortably.

We organized panels with fabrics that it matched and tagged them with any plans we had for them. These were listed as "Planned Projects". Others may have fabrics that were all bought to be 'put together' in some fashion, but no plan yet. We also, took some orphans that we had no plans for and decided they needed to go to Kathy (her specialty). We got quite a bit done! We even found homes for fabrics we felt were not a good, soft quality for our quilts, as ours go to very ill people.

This is our space afterwards...

Next post will be our Feb plans....