Charity Quilts and A Huge Step

My local quilt guild took a huge step and became a Homemaker Club as part of the Calloway County Cooperative Extension Service in December. We look at this as a win/win for our quilt guild and for the Extension Service. This will give us a permanent home for our guild, a great place to have monthly meetings, sew days, and in-town retreats. We are the largest homemaker club for Calloway County Extension Service. Our guild is so excited to become a Homemaker Club! We will keep track of our service hours, and this will aid the Extension Office in applying for grants and funding for them.

One of our guild's charity projects is making veteran's quilts. I recently finished one of these and presented it at our February meeting.

Here are some of the veteran quilts donated that night.

On Super Bowl Sunday, we had our first Souper Bowl Sew Day at the Extension meeting hall. Crock pots of soup were made by homemakers and the sew day was a big success. 

Each of our homemakers brought a can of soup to donate to our local Need Line.

Our guild has just taken on a new huge charity project for our local Murray Calloway County Hospital and their new Cancer Center. We are making quilts for patients taking cancer treatments at the Center.  Here's one I donated at our February meeting.

A few others presented at the meeting.

I think this new charity project for the Cancer Center is going to grow over the months. We are just getting it off the ground. Plus, we just received 38 small size moving boxes of beautiful fabric from a member who is moving to an assisted living facility. We now have enough fabric for charity quilts to last a long time and we all have fabric we would like to donate from our stash. 

Thanks for stopping by - Judy. Happy Quilting!

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Thankful Thursday @ It's A Small Town Life
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Home Matters Link Party on Friday
Whoop Whoop @Confessions of a Fabric Addict on Friday

The Peacock Party @ Wendy's Quilts and More on Friday
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TGIF Linky Party @ Kathleen McMusings

Friday Foto Fun @ Powered by Quilting
TGIFF @ Sarah Ruiz Quilts

Sew & Tell Party @ Melva Loves Scraps on Sunday

Mosaic Monday @ Letting Go of the Bay Leaf on Sunday

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