Household Goods Sewing Kits
The Guild is continuing Tina van Roggen’s work making sewing kits for Household Goods in Acton and delivered our first set of 50 kits for August. We especially need donations of tape measures and small scissors (because most containers are small). But we could also use thread, needles, pins, buttons, safety pin, small boxes for pins or buttons, and empty spools.
If you have extras of any of these items, please bring them to the next meeting. Thank you for your help !
Gina and Sandy
Comfort Quilts
Every year, Guild members make many, many quilts to give to special causes. These Comfort Quilts are donated for distribution to various nonprofits in the area. Members can work on any of the various stages of quilting: tops, quilting, binding. We welcome quilts of any size, but especially twin size. Finished work is displayed at the end of each meeting.
The guild can provide some fabric and batting. We also welcome donations of fabric and batting. Members are welcome to take fabric for comfort quilts or personal projects, as long as a Comfort Quilt comes back in return.
Quilts are distributed to various nonprofits in the area, especially Clarendon Early Childhood Ed. (they usually get the juvenile quilts), Alternative House, and Lowell General Cancer Center. We have also been able to put a quilt in each unit of a veteran’s rehab in Dracut.
Quilts are sometimes offered to a nonprofit for a raffle or silent auction fundraiser. Among those recipients are Greater Lowell Habitat for Humanity, Coalition for a Better Acre, Girls Inc. and the Boys and Girls club. Please direct questions and suggestions to Melinda Goodick.