running1

Hello all... our guild is hoping to complete more community service projects next year... but I'm not good at new ideas...Please help??? What are some public service projects your guild completes? Thank you everyone for helping!!

Melanie Rudy

We make simple cosmetic bags for shelters and fill them with small sized toiletries.

Watson

Our guild makes stockings and another service club in town fills them.

Watson

Tartan

Placemats for Meals on Wheels, lap quilts for Kidney dialysis, fun pillow cases for hospital children's ward, knitted premie hats...

dunster

Bedding for animals in shelters, changing pads for babies, pillowcases and quilts for veterans, foster children, anyone in need... Perhaps there's a place with special needs in your community, such as a home or hospital for veterans, a children's hospital, a shelter for abused women and children, a camp for disabled youth?

Daylesewblessed

Daysforgirls.org is a non-profit that supplies feminine hygiene kits for girls in underdeveloped countries. The purpose is to reduce absenteeism from school during girls' menstrual cycles.

The non-profit accepts partial kits, so it is easy for a group to specialize in whatever part fits its resources. They have sewing specifications for a colorful cotton drawstring bag to hold the supplies, pads made from flannel, and panty shields to hold the pads (made from cotton with a PUL waterproof inner layer).

mim

Our guild also makes shopping bags for the homeless-- plastic bags are banned here -- quilts for children going into foster care and also when a foster child graduates from HS. Premie quilts and tiny quilts for stillborns --when they are held by grieving parents. Chemo hats - I made several lightweight ones for my SIL last summer.

and of course the cuddlequilts for the police and fire depts. when children are in need.

pattypurple

Pillowcases for childrens's hospital through http://caseforsmiles.org/
lap quilts for VA hospital
pillows and turbans for cancer society (your local office might have the patterns)

quiltingshorttimer

We do natural disaster (fire, flood, tornado) quilts for any family in county experiencing this; quilts for the local cancer foundation resource center; big tote bags for foster kids so when they are forced to move they don't end up putting everything in garbage bags; Alzheimer's patient "fiddle quilts". We've done many other projects over our history, but one thing I would caution you on is taking on making many full size quilts--besides the costs, it places lots of demands on your long arm members.

JustAbitCrazy

We make very simple small stuffed dolls for kids in the local hospital, Dignity Robes for ladies undergoing treatment for breast cancer at another local hospital where the robes are not provided (they are like a scrub top which opens all down the front, easy to make), drawstring bags for ladies in domestic abuse shelters in three counties to use to hold all their belongings (instead of plastic garbage bags), Project Linus quilts, preemie quilts for a large maternity hospital, lap quilts for veterans. One lady has made hundreds of pillowcase dresses for girls in third world countries.