Moonlight Quilters Community Service 2008 HOME
Committee Chairs: Florence D. & Sherry R-B Super Quilt Sunday Sunday, 4/27, 9:00am-1:00pm. Join us in making quilts for the Children's Advocacy Center and the Infusion Center. Bring a dish to share and a few quilting supplies! RSVP. -At Fourth Corner Quilts	Community Service in 2008 June--The peace crane raffle quilt for the consortium of local churches who support the CAST feeding program needs just a few more cranes and then will be ready to put together.  Any one inspired by the Carol Doak lecture or class to make a few more paper pieced cranes?  If so, please contact Sherry for the blue dimple background fabric.  At the next Super Quilt Sunday at Fourth Corner Quilts on July 27th we will be organizing left over strips into new kits,  seeing which left over blocks might work together to make a top, quilting completed tops, and binding others.  We have a few more completed quilts to deliver to Brigid Collins Family Support Center. We continue to be grateful for the membership's response to these two community needs.  A big thank you for your participation.  Sherry and Florence ******** The Brigid Collins Family Support Center is one of our designated community service agencies. Many quilts have been completed by groups and individual guild members and are giving a wonderful gift to children in our community. Thank you all! Crane block kits have been checked out and the committee chairs hope to receive all the completed blocks by our June meeting so that the quilt can be put together.   On March 10th Guild members brought their machines, irons and cutting supplies and worked in teams to complete String Quilt tops for children in our community. 11 quilt tops were completed and taken home by members to complete. If you were unable to attend and want to make a quilt at home, contact chairs Florence D. or Sherry R. B. for all the information. Team quilt making directions are attached. You can find all the information for making the quilts, but not in the usual linear format!	Community Service Projects from previous years: 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
	In 2008 Guild Members are invited to express their thanks through these organized quilting activities: Super Quilt Sunday is a quarterly community service event sponsored by Fourth Corner Quilts.  Call the shop at 714-0700 to sign up. Quilters of all skill levels are welcome.  You can sew, cut, iron, piece backs, or quilt if you've had longarm lessons.  Often the stash of donated fabric or UFO's guides the projects that the group works on.  Sometimes we respond to a special request such as the adult clothing protectors that were made for the Adult Day Program participants last year. Along with enthusiasm, bring a dish to share at the potluck meal. March Guild Program Devoted to Community Service Quilts for Brigid Collins Family Support Center.  It's the mission of this agency to break the cycle of child abuse in Whatcom County.  Comfort quilts will be made for the pre-school and grade school age children being evaluated at Brigid Collins Family Support Center.  It's a traumatic time for these children.  A quilt is something to hold onto during the exam as well as be theirs to take home.  Bright cheerful string quilts set in a variety ways ala Gwen Marston's Liberated String Quilts are planned.  Watch the February newsletter for details of fabric strip sizes to prepare for sewing into "strings" at the March meeting.    Raffle Quilt to Support Meal Program for the Homeless:  The second major Community Service project is a proposed quilt for donation to the consortium of churches who support C.A.S.T., a program that provides meals to the homeless.  This is a quilt that the churches would use for fundraising for C.A.S.T., "Coffee And Sandwiches on Tuesdays and Thursdays". It now operates 4 nights a week at Interfaith Health Center.   The chosen pattern is Margaret Rolfe's Peace Quilt with paper pieced cranes set on point.  The Committee will make available the background fabric and pattern printed on tear-away fabric beginning at the February meeting.  We seek guild volunteers to contribute an Asian print for the crane and time to paper piece.  We hope those members keen on paper piecing will make several of these small blocks.
	Each year Moonlight Quilters gives back to the community through their love of quilting. In 2005 six bed sized log cabin quilts were donated to the Red Cross emergency relief. Several table runners were donated to SISU for their fundraising auction and 5 lap quilts were completed for Bonnie's Team to be given to patients at the infusion center. In 2004 a beautiful Boston Commons quilt was donated to Faith Lutheran Church, where we hold our monthly meetings. Lap quilts were constructed using kits of donated fabric. In 2003 quilts were donated to many local agencies and organizations In 2002 members displayed quilts in the Infusion Center at St. Joseph's Hospital to cheer patients and staff. This rotating quilt display was enjoyed by all. Guild members continue to donate time, fabric and orphan blocks which are stitched into lap sized quilts. These quilts are donated in the guild's name to Bonnie's Team in memory of Bonnie De Spain, a local quilter who was lost to breast cancer in 2000. The finished quilts are given to cancer patients being treated through the Infusion Center.
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