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Our guild members are very generous with their time, talents, and fabric stashes in making quilts and other quilted items for a variety of charities.
We have lots of opportunity for our guild members to quilt for charitable organizations in the 2020-2021 guild year. So get your sewing machines ready for action! Check out our Blog for progress updates on these charity projects. -- Vickie MacNabb and Jane Wickware Spring Lockdown 2021
Completed premie quilts can be dropped off at Marilyn's house in Arnprior. Contact Marilyn Completed Pick Up Sticks blocks, placemats for the Grove nursing home, and fidget quilts can be dropped off to Jane in Arnprior. Contact Jane You can pick up the neutral fabric for the Pick Up Sticks blocks, and premie quilt batting from Jane in Arnprior. Charity Quilt Block
Placemats for the new Grove Nursing Home
We have been asked/tasked with making placemats for the new Grove Nursing Home that will be opening this summer in Arnprior! I went by there lately and it looks like they are making great progress on the new larger residence building. The idea is to have 96 new placemats, one for each resident, to welcome them when they move to their new home. Since the Grove staff aren't aware of their colour scheme at this point in time, we have been asked to make some cheery colourful placemats. So sky's the limit for design: maybe try out some new techniques or blocks, use up your beautiful colourful scraps! Make it scrappy and happy, monochrome in various shades, or very nicely colour coordinated, it is all up to you! The only stipulation is to make them all the same size (approximately 15 " X 11") , so they will fit uniform on the table settings. So please have fun and enjoy making cheerful placemats for this community project. Quilt for Palliative Care at Arnprior Hospital
We have a quilt quilted and bound...generously donated by Chris Gordon. We will be meeting with the Arnprior & District Memorial Hospital administration before Christmas to pursue moving forward with this donation. This is a twin sized quilt for the palliative care room at the hospital. Quilts for Local Homeless Youth
We have completed 4 twin size quilts for "couch surfing" youth here in Arnprior. We have enough blocks to continue making 6 or 8 more quilts. We use 6 blocks for a quilt so we have done well this year block-wise. More is always good!!! Read about 3 quilts that have been donated Premie Quilts for Neo-Natal Unit
We plan again to provide little quilts for the babies in the Rich Little Special Care Nursery at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital, and to the Special Care Nursery at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital. Quilters: See the Making Premie Quilts section of this page for information about making these special little quilts. Click to see more Premie Quilt Photos 
Premie Quilts
Holiday Placemats for Arnprior Meals on Wheels
Always a fun project to provide holiday placements to Arnprior Meals on Wheels to be delivered with the Christmas meal. Christmas themed fabric on one side and something interesting on the other means they can be used year round. Size is approximately 15 in x 11 in. Completed placemats can be dropped off at Sew Inspired in Arnprior by November 30. 
Holiday Placemats
Christmas Gift Bags for the Local Food Bank
Touch Quilts
The Arnprior and District Memorial Hospital requires some "touch" quilts for their Alzheimer patients. They currently borrow a few from the nearby Grove Retirement Home. They would appreciate 20 touch quilts. Fidget quilts...twiddle quilts....activity quilts..... all the same!! We will be focused on these types of quilts in January 2020 through to the end of the year - this gives us the Fall to start to collect textures.... The Opportunity Shop is a great place to find textured fabric.... corduroy, velvet, flannel, denim, fleece, rags. For a few dollars we purchased enough feely clothes to make a quilt....with lots of leftovers. The object is to shop with your "feels" not with your eyes. A successful touch quilt looks motley sometimes...but they bring enormous comfort and calm to someone struggling with Alzheimers. Anything attached to these quilts MUST be secure....this time it is not about beauty...it is about how it feels. Examples 
Touch Quilt
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Total 2019-2020: 53
Making Premie QuiltsUse 100% cotton fabric
Flannel makes a soft, cozy backing Size: 24” x 24” Minimal quilting to keep the quilt soft. Use cotton thread. Batting is available at the guild meetings See Instructions for more information. Preemie Quilt Photos |
Sew Days
Sew Days are planned for your opportunity to come join us. There are two Sew Days at Island View Retirement Residence in 2020 for the Alzheimer fidget quilts.
See Sew Days for more information.
Some of the lovely quilts that are awaiting donation.
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