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Ideas for guild projects?

Old 11-05-2016, 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by johans View Post
Our guild makes quilts for veterans. We've made for all the WWII in our county, and have started on Korean. At each meeting we have kits made up for twelve 12" blocks using guild military color fabrics. A member presents the block to the group and 12 quilters each take a one-block kit. They (hopefully) bring the finished block to the next meeting. Someone takes the finished blocks, applies sashing and a border. Someone else quilts it, and someone binds and attaches a label - - or one person takes the 12 blocks and finishes it. This way we for sure get twelve veterans' quilts done each year. many members also make veterans quilts.
Another thing we do is to make potholders for food pantry christmas baskets. We demo one style of potholder each month, and at our show we give a potholder to each attendee who pays for a ticket. Leftover potholders go to the food pantry.
Kudos to you for doing the Vet's quilts. We did that project--for 3 years! started with WWII and then Korean and any that were physically doing poorly and may not make it to later presentations. All total we spent over $7000 on materials, bat, backing and presented over 680 coming up to the present. We still get a few names for Vets---we limited it those that live in our county (pretty rural) and had served during war time--with more recent "war events" it seems like we've had wars for so long now that it basically covered all of them. We did end up receiving donations from individuals and groups so that our efforts in the end about broke even . Unfortunately we completely wore out our "welcome" with the long arm quilters in the group (about 7 of us did all these)!
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