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The
Outreach Committee meets at the Charlton Grange on the 2nd and 4th
Friday of the month with the exception of November and December, when the
committee meets on the 1st and 3rd Fridays because of
the holidays. The meeting time is
12:30 PM to 3:00 PM.
Outreach
accepts all sizes of quilts but finds the following sizes most helpful:
Infant 36 x 36 Oncology
45 x 60
Crib 30 x 46 or 36 x 50 Incubator 48 x 66
Lap 40 x 54 Shawl 22 x 72
Wheelchair 38 x 47
For
stress free volunteering, the Outreach kits are already sized!
Outreach Update
77 quilts have been given as of the
end of May. There are 40 more to distribute in the month of June. This brings
us to a total of 117 quilts in the last 6 months!
A lot of those quilts were finished tops donated by you, not kits that Avis
and I made up. We really appreciate all those tops from your stash! What a
great way to use up that stash!
Kits will
not be handed out until September.
If you wish to make room for new fabric we would love for you to make quilt
tops for us this summer.
We are most
in need of large quilt tops, our oncology size is
45 x 60. This size also works for a group of Homeless Women Vets in
Worcester.
Whatever you can do will be a great
help.
Thank-you,
Marge & Avis
Special Project
Outreach
is taking on a special project this year. They are in need of quilts for an
orphanage in Kliptown, South Africa. Guild member Ellinor Allen has a
friend who is an Early Education professor at New York College. She goes to Kliptown every other year with
a group of her students to help at a school in Kliptown. They take along
any quilts that we give them to the orphanage. Their next trip is the summer of 2011.
Some
quilts will be set aside for them; however, if anyone would like to
contribute some quilts for this special project, be sure to tell the
Outreach Committee that they are for Kliptown. Deadline for these quilts is May 2011.
The sizes
that they need are: 36” x 44,” 48” x
60,” and 60” x 72.” These are just
guidelines.
Thank You Note
Here is a
letter received from the NICU (Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit) at UMass
Memorial:
“March 29,
2010
Hello
Ladies: My name is Dominic and I’ve
been chose by my neighbors to send you a thank you for the quilts. Me
and my buddies here in the NICU now all have a cool quilt covering our
incubators. Our parents think they’re pretty awesome as well! So, thank you from
all of us kids in the NICU. We love the quilts!!”
Pillowcase
project
Outreach
has presented us with a new project: Make a cheerful pillowcase for a
child who is sick with cancer or another serious illness.
Directions
for making a standard-size pillowcase:
Supplies:
3/4 yard of fabric for the body
1/3 yard of fabric for the border
Instructions:
1.
cut body of the case 26 1/2”
x 40 1/2”
2.
cut border 10 1/2”
x 40 1/2”
3.
Fold border in half lengthwise with the wrong sides together and
iron.
4.
Place the right side of the border on the right side of the body.
5.
Stitch these together using a 1/2” seam allowance.
6.
Place right sides together and stitch down sides and across bottom.
7.
Turn right side out and iron.
8.
Wash the pillowcase thoroughly (to sanitize for hospital use).
9.
Place each pillowcase in an individual quart-sized zip-lock bag.
10. Bring the pillowcase to Guild meeting and turn in to
Outreach.
When
making pillowcases for ConKerr Cancer, please wash them before you turn
them in to Marge. Don’t
forget that you may drop them off at Auburn Sewing Center, Appletree
Fabrics, Charlton Sewing Center and The Fabric Stash. Marie Nader of
Mass. ConKerr Cancer has indicated that Shaw‘s Supermarkets will give ConKerr a small percentage
of your purchases on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays if you use your
Shaw’s card.
It will not take away from any other goals you may be trying to achieve
with your card. All you have to do is register. Visit the
website at www.conkerrcancer.org.
If you
have any questions, call Marge Moniz at 508 347 5811.
Marge
Moniz will have a few brochures at the Outreach table that you can look at
and if I have enough you may have one. The directions are from the
brochure and if you have a serger that would be a nice machine to
use.
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