Attention donation quilters , knitters , crocheters
01-22-2012, 06:14 PM
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this is a great thread...and oh so true..everybody associates hand made items with being "girly"....but I always sewed for my boys...here the teen boys are always forgotten too....yet when it comes to the quilts for soldiers, it is always the opposite..the girls/women get forgotten...stereopying at its finest I suppose! I have two boys quilts ready to be quilted! THey are RED..hehehe..with sailboats and blue with trains...hope they work!
01-22-2012, 06:28 PM
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I just did the "Layered Star" quilt for a teenaged boy --- no florals, of course! Just lots of dots, bold colors, geometric patterns, etc. I used blue, purple and gold as the 3 'star' colors. He adores it! And I did a "Tumbling Blocks" quilt for a 4-year-old. Lot's of colors, but all masculine: blue, green, gold, tan, brown, etc. No prints, but some dots and small patterns (e.g. wavy lines). He adores his. You really have to think from a different place when putting a "guy quilt" together. I find it helps me to stand in my husband's closet, or look at a man's clothing catalog, just to get a sense of the colors and designs. My husband caught me in his closet once, and ask, in a puzzled voice: "What are you doing in here?" I told him I was "communing with his clothes." I could hear him laughing all of the way out of the room. I'm not sure he ever figured it out!
01-22-2012, 06:47 PM
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Thank you for this reminder. When I was making pillowcases for the local homeless shelter for the Million Pillowcase Challenge, I looked at the pile I had amassed and realized they all looked feminine. I made a point of producing an equal number of "guy" ones.
01-22-2012, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by raedar63
I just thought I would throw this out there for all of the donation quilters,knitters and crocheters out there.
I currently work as Night shift house nursing supervisior in a local hospital. I have been noticing when I make rounds in the mother baby unit at night all of the girl babies have cute little hats , quilts or afgans while the little boys have on the hospital stockinette caps they put on the babies when they are freshly born and not bathed yet. I finally asked why . The reply was that they hats and blankies are all donated and there are hardly ever enough boy things donated . One nurse even said that if it was gender neutral the item still had pink in it somewhere and these "country boy" dads would never let their baby boy wear pink lol.
The tech took me in the back and showed me the tubs where the donated items were kept. Sure enough there were at least 50 little girl hats and not one boy hat . and out of the 20 or so quilts and afagans there was one little boy one.
So my plea is that those of us who donate to these types of things make more boy items! I bet project linus has the same issue. My next day off I crocheted a little hat . the next night I went to work I took it in. Well just so happens that we had a car pull up to the ED and the baby was already out ! It is in the 20's here so I am happy to say the little guy had a warm and cute little hat to show off after his shocking arrival into the world
I currently work as Night shift house nursing supervisior in a local hospital. I have been noticing when I make rounds in the mother baby unit at night all of the girl babies have cute little hats , quilts or afgans while the little boys have on the hospital stockinette caps they put on the babies when they are freshly born and not bathed yet. I finally asked why . The reply was that they hats and blankies are all donated and there are hardly ever enough boy things donated . One nurse even said that if it was gender neutral the item still had pink in it somewhere and these "country boy" dads would never let their baby boy wear pink lol.
The tech took me in the back and showed me the tubs where the donated items were kept. Sure enough there were at least 50 little girl hats and not one boy hat . and out of the 20 or so quilts and afagans there was one little boy one.
So my plea is that those of us who donate to these types of things make more boy items! I bet project linus has the same issue. My next day off I crocheted a little hat . the next night I went to work I took it in. Well just so happens that we had a car pull up to the ED and the baby was already out ! It is in the 20's here so I am happy to say the little guy had a warm and cute little hat to show off after his shocking arrival into the world
HOWEVER---------I've got yarn to use-------------maybe I ought to start on some little boy caps.
01-22-2012, 07:50 PM
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Boys also love their Animals...and browns, greens, tans, fishing, hunting, camping, flannel backings is a favorite request from my boys, sports, college themes, NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, sking, motorcyles
01-22-2012, 07:50 PM
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I find this rather funny as I am always finding myself drawn to little boy things and hardly ever girl things. I would so wish I had to means to be able to afford to donate items for these little ones, but I just can't do this at the moment.
01-22-2012, 08:40 PM
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I agree with the OP. I have a friend who is a nurse, she has 2 longarms and quilts about 30 quilts a month for terminal patients at her hospital. The group she works with to make these quilts get a lot of donated fabrics and tops, and they are ALWAYS short of boyish items.
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