LAKE QUILTERS GUILD
Serving Smith Mountain Lake Virginia
Community Service
May 2010 Charity Delivery: (left to right) Alice Vreeland, Betty Hatfield, Mimi McDermet, and Marcia Wright make deliveries to Franklin County locations.
2010 Community Service Projects
August Charity Committee Report. The charity committee is continuing to collect items for distribution to our many charities in Bedford and Franklin Counties. Last month, we collected 4 pillow pals, 3 lap quilts, 4 knit caps, and 3 pillow cases. Soon will be making distribution runs to Rocky Mount and Bedford to take items to them. Won't you consider coming along? Watch the newsletter or listen at the next meeting for plans. We always have such a good time. The response to our items is heartwarming, and we usually make an event of the trip and go out to lunch together.
Check with Katherine Lewis if you'd like to construct some more Christmas stockings. Alice Vreeland has pillow pal kits that need to be put together. We can always use bibs for the Bedford County nursing home, and the foster care people always need pillowcases to give to the kids. They use them to carry their meager belongings in, and they love the bright colors. Of course, the hospitals can always use an unlimited supply of bears and pillow pals. Once all the company goes away for the summer, get busy and put a few things together. Thanks for all your help.
June Charity Committee Report. On May 24 five guild members, Sandy Kelso, Alice Vreeland, Mimi McDermet, Marcia Wright and Betty Hatfield made deliveries to Franklin County locations. We met for lunch in Rocky Mount and finished delivering by 3:30. It was a very good day! We were met at every place with very OPEN ARMS. Everyone is extremely grateful for all we do for them. The need is great, and we were happy to have been able to help. We delivered 40 bears, 23 lap/baby quilts, 7 wheelchair bags, 26 pillow pals. Some comments: The hospital emergency room needs approximately 30 bears/pillow pals per month; the day we delivered the nurse gave a bear to a child that she said was "bouncing off the wall" and needed a bear! Foster Care needs pillow cases - they are very important to the children to have something of their very own for their "stuff". There is also a need for teen quilts and pillow cases. Franklin Health Care LOVES the wheelchair bags; in fact we observed one in use when we were there. We have kits for pillow pals, and patterns are available for bears. Please think about picking up some of these and making items for us to deliver. The heart quilt pattern is also available. Make a few blocks, and we'll put them together into quilts. Thanks for all your help! Keep up the good work!! Your Charity Committee
Charity Heart Block/Quilt: On May 7, Teena Livsey, Sandy Kelso, Sandra Ferguson and Marcia Wright met at Marnie's Shop for their first "official" Charity Work Day! Teena had done some homework so she has a quilt almost finished, Sandy worked on blocks that she took home to work on borders, etc. With the help of Sandra and Teena, Marcia was able to get 12 heart blocks sashed, bordered and almost ready for the quilter! See the May Slide Show for a photo of the heart quilt. The heart block patterns will be available at the Guild meetings. Members are invited to make ONE BLOCK! Next Heart meeting will be at Marnie's shop on June 4th at 10am until ???. Everyone is welcome. Call Marcia if you'd like to attend.
Charity News April: In April Katherine Lewis delivered to Bedford County 13 quilts, 17 totes, 47 bears, 10 pillow cases, 2 pillow pals, 33 bibs and 15 wheelchair bags.At the April meeting, we received three bears, one pillow pal, 9 lap quilts, 5 wheelchair bags, one knit cap and one pillowcase. We also received a donation of 25 pillowcases from the White Oak Mountain Quilt Guild near Danville. We really appreciate all that you have done, but we still need a lot of Pillow Pals, and we can always use the other items as well.
Charity News March: After our successful sew-in in February, we are well supplied with bears, having completed over 150 of them. We can always use more as the year goes by. In March, we had the following turned in: 8 bears, 2 pillow pals, 10 lap quilts, 9 bibs, 2 stockings, 2 sweaters and 6 knit caps. Thanks to all who made items. We really need pillow pals, since this is one of our most requested items. Kits are available on the charity table at every meeting.
"Many Hands Make Light Work" is the motto of your Charity Committee: Alice Vreeland, Sandy Kelso, Katherine Lewis, Teena Livesy, Donna Broomall, Kathy Funder-son, Sandra Ferguson, Marcia Wright, and Mimi McDermet. New members welcome.
2009 Community Service Projects
Lake Quilter's Guild donated $300 to Lake Christian Ministries in November.
Charity Items Distributed in 2009
"Quilt As You Go" Charity Quilt Instructions
Updated Pillow Pal Instructions
2008 Community Service Projects
Charity Items Distributed in 2008: View year end totals View quarterly reports
Instructions for Charity Items. Click on the links below to view printable instructions (PDF file) Use your browser's back button to return to this page.
Soldier's Cool Scarf - These instructions are on the Soldiers' Angels website. Please notice that they are very particular about colors. If you plan to make these, please hold on to them until the February meeting, at which time they will be gathered and shipped. This will be a "one time only"shipment.
Nursing Home Bibs
"Quilt As You Go" Charity Quilt
Updated Pillow Pal InstructionsQuilts of Valor. Lake Quilters Guild donated $100 to Smith Mountain Lake Quilting and to the General Store to help defray the cost of batting and backings. Learn more about what we are doing... SML Quilts of Valor
Lake Quilters Guild donated $500 to the new Westlake Library to be used to purchase books and magazines on quilting to help further a knowledge of and interest in quilting in our local community.
The February 2008 Meeting was our Charity Quilt-in. We need to replenish our supply of bears, quilts, pillow pals, and wheelchair tote bags after our many 2007 charity donations. To see us at work view the February 2008 Slide Show on the Show and Tell page.
As a service to our community, the Featured Bee of the Month will display at the Franklin County Library for the month following the general meeting.
2007 Community Service Projects
Raffle Quilts donated to aid worthy causes: Two of our bees made quilts for raffle to benefit the Alzheimer's Association and the charities sponsored by this year's Home Tour. View the quilts and the ladies that made them.
Charity Items Distributed in 2007
Nov. 2007 - Charity Committee Report: includes latest charity item distributions and request for future charity items.
May 2007 - Letter from the Charity Committee: includes latest charity item distributions and information on obtaining Christmas stocking patterns and sewing labels for your charity projects.
March 2007 - Thank You Letter from the Charity Committee includes totals from Quilt-in and instructions for getting started on the Christmas stockings for Step, Inc. (Head Start of Franklin County).
The February 2007 Meeting was our Charity Quilt-In. We needed to replenish our supply of bears and quilts after our many 2006 charity donations. To see us at work view the February 2007 Slide Show on the Show and Tell page.
(See below for coverage of the 2006 Quilt-in and donations.)
Making charity items is an ongoing process. Members can also make items at home throughout the year and bring them to the meetings. If you need labels for the charity quilts and teddy bears you've made … they are located in the library cabinet on the left … on the lower left shelf in white and teal plastic boxes.
Charity Table at the January 2006 meeting displays examples of the bears and quilts that can be made for charity. Members may also make and donate a quilt design of their own choosing. 2006 Community Service Projects
The bears and quilts and Christmas stockings we donate are greatly appreciated. Click here to learn how many and where the items have been placed and read the letters of appreciation we have received for our donations.
Two of our bees made quilts for raffle to help Franklin Co. CASA and the SML Discovery Shop. View the quilts.
The February 2006 Meeting was our Charity Quilt-In. Irene Capps reported that we made 153 bears and 16 quilts at our meeting and had a great time doing it. View Photos of February 2006 Quilt-In
2005 Community Service Projects
2005 Community Service Projects now have their own page - click here to view page
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