Hello everyone:
I had a great privilege this past weekend. I belong to the Sunshine Yahoo Group - we make kids charity quilts that are sent with Rotary doctors who travel the world repairing facial disfigurations for children - children who have been outcasts because of a simple cleft palette.
We send quilts with them - each kid is wrapped in a colorful quilt during surgery, and sent home with the quilt... a beautiful program started by my friend Terri, in Maine.
Last weekend, a local Rotary group collected a year's worth of donations from their members and gave them to us... so I went over to my friend Gail's house to sew on labels... When I walked in I saw this great mountain of quilts................ aren't they fabulous!!!
and that wasn't all of them. All total, I think we labeled nearly 300 kids quilts that day - all bright, cheery, and snuggly... here they are all boxed up and ready to be taken to the Rotary warehouse in San Francisco...
I often wonder what "kind" of quilter I want to be when I 'grow up"... Well, I'm not sure where my quilting obsession may lead, but I do hope I am always a charity quilter - cause doing this kind of work just feels sooo very good.. and what a nice time of year to feel good about charity work...
Happy Holidays -
Kate
2 comments:
Awesome!~ I knew these docs did this, but didn't know they took quilts. What a great service! Thanks for sharing.
OMGosh - You've got a lovely bunch of quilts -- that's supposed to be sung to "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts"! 8-))
What a great project, with loving results for those kids.
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