LAKE QUILTERS GUILD
Serving Smith Mountain Lake Virginia
Community Service
2012 Community Service Projects
Pillow Pal Beauty Contest
Our Guild is sponsoring a Pillow Pal Beauty Pageant. Join the fun and enter the contest... Your finished Pillow Pal should make her/his debut at our February 28, 2012 Charity Workshop Program. Prizes will be awarded! Read more...
Download Sandra's Revised (2011) Pillow Pal Instructions with Pattern.
Donation Quilt Pattern: Want to make a donation quilt? Try the Magic Diagonal Quilt Pattern from Marlyn.
2011 Community Service Projects
Donation Pillowcases
Hospice has expressed a need for "travel" size pillows and pillowcases. The travel pillow is 12" x 16." Janie has created an instruction sheet for making this size pillowcase... Janie's Travel Size Pillowcase Instructions.
We also have a need for standard pillowcases. We will be donating some of these to the Rescue Mission Ministries in Roanoke. Dot Jackson will be distributing these. We have also been asked to help Stepping Stone Mission in Rocky Mount, Lori Suon will be distributing these pillowcases. Last year Kate created instructions for standard pillowcases... Kate's Easy Peezy Pillow Case Instructions and photos (PDF)
Also check-out http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases for additional pillowcase instructions.
The 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge will continue in 2011 so anyone wishing to donate pillowcases can continue to make them and donate them to the Guild and Marlyn will report the count online to American Patchwork & Quilting. Learn more at http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases.
2011 Charity Committee Monthly Reports "Many Hands Make Light Work" is the motto of your Charity Committee. New members welcome. The Committee makes deliveries to Franklin and Bedford Counties a minimum of twice a year. All the efforts of individual guild members make the deliveries possible. We donate bears, pillow pals, quilts, pillowcases and Christmas stockings. If any of you find someone in need of any of our items, please let us know. For those interested in quilts for Japanese survivors of the earthquake/tsunami: http://www.quiltsforjapan.ca/who-we-are.
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The Drunkard's Path Block (at left) will hang on the outside wall for all to see at the Artisan Center in Rocky Mount, VA. The large scale wooden block, made by Barn Art, will be the first block on The Crooked Quilt Trail. The trail will follow The Crooked Road, Virginia's Heritage Music Trail and White Lightning Trail; and will be part of The Artisan Trails of Southwest Virginia. The Drunkard's Path pattern was chosen for Franklin County as a remembrance of its history as The Moonshine Capital of the World. The Drunkard's Path Block was installed on the outside wall of the Artisan Center in Rocky Mount, VA, at 8am on Wednesday, August 17, 2011. At right are guild members who attended the installation.
We thank Eloise Vass (top left and right center) for all her efforts in making this concept become a reality for SML Quilt Guild and Franklin County.
During our February Quilt-in, Cindy Treadway from the Franklin County Resource Center spoke to us about her program and the needs of the center. She took 10 Pillow Pals, 8 bears, 3 quilts and 30 Pillowcases. She also took several pictures of our guild members sewing charity items and put them on the shelter website. Check out the Resource center website: franklincountyva.org/shelter ...go to "Pillow Pals project." If you go to "Project Cover Me" you will see beds with bears on them!
Susan Palmer has made a "Purple Heart Quilt" to honor woman recipients of the Purple Heart Award. This quilt will represent the state of Virginia on the Purple Heart Quilt Trail.
To learn more about the quilt and view a larger photo click here.
January 3 - February 28. The Moneta Library invited Lake Quilters Guild members to display quilted items at the library during the months of January & February. This display was coordinated by Vicky Seekford.
2010 Community Service Projects
Charity Committee
2010 Charity Reports by the Month
May 2010 Charity Delivery:
(left to right) Alice Vreeland, Betty Hatfield, Mimi McDermet, and Marcia Wright make deliveries to Franklin County locations.
1 Million Pillowcase Challenge:
Kate's Easy Peezy Pillow Case Instructions and photos (PDF)
Marnie Brush from Smith Mountain Lake Quilting offered an extra incentive for those who stitched up the most charity pillowcases by December 13, 2010- gift certificates for fabrics at her store. 101 pillowcases were donated.
Winners of Marnie's Challenge were:
- Most Pillowcases from a quilting bee or group: The Walnutter's Quilt Group (Kate Holdgreve's group). With a total of 24 pillowcases they won a $30 gift certificate for fabrics at SML Quilting.
- Most Pillowcases made by an individual: Suzanne Given with a total of 25 pillowcases won a $20 gift certificate for fabrics at SML Quilting.
The 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge will continue in 2011 so anyone wishing to donate pillowcases can continue to make them and donate them to the Guild and we will report the count online to American Patchwork & Quilting.
2010 Veteran's Day Quilt - Hardy Bee
On Veterans Day the Hardy Bee honored Korean War Veteran Bob VandeLinde by presenting him the with quilt shown above. Each bee member made one star block for the red, white and blue quilt.
2009 Community Service Projects
Lake Quilter's Guild donated $300 to Lake Christian Ministries in November.
Charity Items Distributed in 2009
2008 Community Service Projects
Charity Items Distributed in 2008: View year end totals View quarterly reports
Instructions for Charity Items. Click on the links below to view printable instructions (PDF file) Use your browser's back button to return to this page.
Soldier's Cool Scarf - These instructions are on the Soldiers' Angels website. Please notice that they are very particular about colors. If you plan to make these, please hold on to them until the February meeting, at which time they will be gathered and shipped. This will be a "one time only"shipment.
Nursing Home Bibs
"Quilt As You Go" Charity Quilt
Updated Pillow Pal InstructionsQuilts of Valor. Lake Quilters Guild donated $100 to Smith Mountain Lake Quilting and to the General Store to help defray the cost of batting and backings. Learn more about what we are doing... SML Quilts of Valor
Lake Quilters Guild donated $500 to the new Westlake Library to be used to purchase books and magazines on quilting to help further a knowledge of and interest in quilting in our local community.
The February 2008 Meeting was our Charity Quilt-in. We need to replenish our supply of bears, quilts, pillow pals, and wheelchair tote bags after our many 2007 charity donations. To see us at work view the February 2008 Slide Show on the Show and Tell page.
As a service to our community, the Featured Bee of the Month will display at the Franklin County Library for the month following the general meeting.
2007 Community Service Projects
Raffle Quilts donated to aid worthy causes: Two of our bees made quilts for raffle to benefit the Alzheimer's Association and the charities sponsored by this year's Home Tour. View the quilts and the ladies that made them.
Charity Items Distributed in 2007
Nov. 2007 - Charity Committee Report: includes latest charity item distributions and request for future charity items.
May 2007 - Letter from the Charity Committee: includes latest charity item distributions and information on obtaining Christmas stocking patterns and sewing labels for your charity projects.
March 2007 - Thank You Letter from the Charity Committee includes totals from Quilt-in and instructions for getting started on the Christmas stockings for Step, Inc. (Head Start of Franklin County).
The February 2007 Meeting was our Charity Quilt-In. We needed to replenish our supply of bears and quilts after our many 2006 charity donations. To see us at work view the February 2007 Slide Show on the Show and Tell page.
(See below for coverage of the 2006 Quilt-in and donations.)
Making charity items is an ongoing process. Members can also make items at home throughout the year and bring them to the meetings. If you need labels for the charity quilts and teddy bears you've made … they are located in the library cabinet on the left … on the lower left shelf in white and teal plastic boxes.
Charity Table at the January 2006 meeting displays examples of the bears and quilts that can be made for charity. Members may also make and donate a quilt design of their own choosing. 2006 Community Service Projects
The bears and quilts and Christmas stockings we donate are greatly appreciated. Click here to learn how many and where the items have been placed and read the letters of appreciation we have received for our donations.
Two of our bees made quilts for raffle to help Franklin Co. CASA and the SML Discovery Shop. View the quilts.
The February 2006 Meeting was our Charity Quilt-In. Irene Capps reported that we made 153 bears and 16 quilts at our meeting and had a great time doing it. View Photos of February 2006 Quilt-In
2005 Community Service Projects
2005 Community Service Projects now have their own page - click here to view page
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