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Our group started out making bibs, walker pocket covers and quilts for the nursing home in town. Our group is called Lorena’s HOPE (Helping other people everywhere). She made the statement one day “why don’t we do something to help people instead of talking about it”. Our church just put’s it in the bulletin as sewing ministry.
we only make quilts now unless someone request something else. We meet in our church fellowship hall from 10-3 on Thursdays. Several ladies who do not sew or quilt take the covered dishes we bring and have everything ready for us to eat at noon. The potluck is open to anyone who bring something so often there are other family members there. There are about 12 of us making quilts. We work at home and at the church. Many did not know how to sew and have been taught by a member of the group. We take quilts to the Veteran’s Home in town every other Nov. we make sure we have enough for every veteran there. We also take quilts to the children’s home in Mobile, AL so every child has a quilt with their name on it that can be taken with them if they leave. We choose a nursing home each year that we trying to have finished at the end of summer. We have made pillow case dresses, shorts and bags for rice and beans that were taken to Nicaragua on summer mission trips. During the summer months we have a children’s sewing ministry. We teach the children to use a sewing machine and they have a finished quilt by the end of the summer. 2 of us in our church have longarms and we quilt the children’s quilts. Last summer one of the boys made a quilt for one of the Veterans and he presented it during the Veteran’s Day program our town has every year. We meet every Thursday except for the last 3 weeks in Dec. and Thanksgiving.