Community Service

Committee: Laura H. & Anne H.

For 2023 we will be having fun with various layouts using the Split Nine Patch quilt block.  Lap size quilts will be created by our members and donated to women and children through the Agape House.  We will also be making five quilts for families through Habitat For Humanity.  It will be a fun and exciting year as we work together on these wonderful giving opportunities. Below, are a sampling of quilts created so far.

2022 Community Service-Quilts for the YWCA

Our Community Service sewing is going strong!  Many quilts have been completed for YWCA in 2022. What a blessing for these women.

The pattern we are using is “Oh My Stars” , a free pattern on www.patsloan.com .

 

2021 Community Service- Quilts for the Whatcom County Pregnancy Center!

Everyone loves to make baby quilts, so there were many participants in this years’s Community Service Project.  Members created Nine Patch quilt blocks and their own quilt layout to make beautiful quilts for babies in Whatcom County.   Quilts were displayed at the September 2021 Guild Meeting and delivered to the Pregnancy Center later in the month.

2019 Community Service Project

In 2019 we kicked off the year with a presentation by a new member, Dale Marie.  She had created a scrappy and flexible pattern to use for community service quilts.  The guild members responded happily and dug into their stash of fabrics to produce a wonderful array of quilts that were donated to the Peace Health-St Joseph’s Community Cancer Center. The quilts will be given to patients undergoing chemotherapy.  The quilts became part of this year’s Quilt Challenge and were displayed at our September 2019 guild meeting.

2018 Community Service Committee
Sherry R. B.

A wonderful array of colorful, warm, funny, happy quilts have been created by the members and will be presented to Brigid Collins Family Support Center and distributed to children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse.  Our members are so generous with their time, working in teams and singly to complete these quilts.

2017 Community Service-“String” Quilts for Lydia Place families

2017- This year we are recognizing the many years of work and families that have been assisted out of poverty by Lydia Place.  We are making quilts in several patterns from strips cut to 2 1/2″, joined in strip sets and cut into blocks.  In March 2017 we worked from kits that had been put together for us.  We sewed, pressed and created those strip sets.  Some even got blocks cut.  There is much work to be done, though, and we will work together again at our May meeting and many members will take the quilt tops home to sandwich, quilt, and bind.

In 2016 we made flannel receiving blankets for newborns.  We completed 30 blankets and 120 burp cloths at our March meeting in support of the Welcome Baby program through St Joseph’s Hospital. Well done Moonlighters!

2015 Strip Quilts for Peace Health Cancer Center
2014 Preemie Quilts for newborns at St Joseph’s Hospital
2013 Community Service – Quilts for Hospice House

Each year Moonlight Quilters gives back to the community through their love of quilting. This is a partial list of organizations or programs we have supported through our quilts.

Brigid Collins Family Support Center, Peace Health Infusion Services, Hospice House, and the Opportunity Council, Doll quilts were also made for use in local low income child care centers, the Salt on the Street program, the “FACES” program and helped to support an eight week summer camp for autistic children, the CAST Feeding Program, Blue Skies for Children, SISU,  the Red Cross,  and Bonnie’s Team.