Community Service
A Quilted Gift
Throughout the year, A Quilted Gift committee has various activities to support our local charities. We are continuing our policy of no fabric donations at this time as we are still bursting at the seams.
The Quilted Gift Program puts together kits for members to make, prepares batting and backing to allow the quilts to be quilted and bound by members. They also accept other completed tops and quilts members have completely finished and wish to donate. The Committee then decides who to donate the quilts to and arranges drop off. Depending on the volume on hand they may accept fabric donations. In the last 5 years over 850 quilts have been donated to various programs and charities!
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Cases of Caring
The members of the Amoskeag Quilters Guild are so generous. For the September meeting, twenty-four pillowcases were dropped off and all twenty of the new kits brought to the meeting were scooped up. There are so many worthy charities and people in need of cheering, whether it be an older veteran, a teenager living away from home, or a child in the hospital. We have delivered pillowcases to Liberty House, Webster House, and The Elliot Hospital Pediatric Wing. Everyone was so pleased to receive your beautiful handiwork. Thank You!!!
We are always grateful for your donations of fabric, we accept any and all material, as the pillowcases need 3/4 of a yard for the case and 1/4 of a yard for the cuff.
NE Quilt Museum
We are proud to sponsor the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA. Our guild has a special fund drive in March and donates the proceeds towards the cause of supporting and maintaining a regional area resource that is the museum.
Raffle Quilt
One method we use to give back to the community is to create a quilt as a guild and then raffle it with the entire proceeds going to our designated charity. Every other membership year, the guild votes upon which charity will be the recipient of our group efforts and then creates a quilt and spends a year in efforts to raffle it off.
Check out the "Every Quilt has a Story to Tell" Quilt Show page for more information.