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Charity Projects


​Charity Archives
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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 2019-2020 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
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Charity Quilt Block
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We will soon be making the versatile Pick Up Sticks block for the quilts we will be donating to our charitable causes.

We are hoping that each guild member will make one or two of these quick and easy blocks 
so we can make them into quilts to donate to future charity opportunities.

The white background fabric for the blocks will soon be available from  the guild.

Instructions

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. 

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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​.

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
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Premie Quilts

Holiday Placemats for Arnprior Meals on Wheels
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​​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.


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Holiday Placemats

Christmas Gift Bags for the Local Food Bank

​There is material cut and ready to sew, to pick at the Charity Table, or you can use these Instructions for Making Drawstring Bags  to make some from your stash. The bags can be a great stash buster, and you will feel great donating them!

All bags can be dropped off at Sew Inspired in Arnprior by November 30 so we have time to deliver them to the
 Arnprior and District Food Bank in time to be filled for Christmas.
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Drawstring Gift Bags

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
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Touch Quilt
Check out our Blog for more information on our charitable endeavours.
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Total 2019-2020:   53

Making Premie Quilts

Use 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
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 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.  

Click or tap a photo to view it in full.

Charity Archives

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