January 2018 Meeting Highlights

We kicked off the new year with our annual hands on charity project night at our January meeting. It was a very busy evening with three activities to choose from: 

• Auction quilt for the Arnprior & District Memorial Hospital
• Arms for Hugging project for patients receiving palliative care
• Cutting & assembling kits for wheelchair lap quilts and preemie quilts.

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Thanks to all of the members who took kits for blocks for the auction quilt at our December meeting and then brought in the completed blocks.

Laying out the blocks for the hospital auction quilt

Joanna joining the blocks

Completed centre section of the auction quilt - Awesome!

Arms for Hugging

Millie modeling Arms for Hugging

  
Our guild receives a lot of generously donated fabric so there was lots of fabric to cut up and assemble into kits for wheelchair lap quilts and preemie quilts.   It was a whirlwind of activity with many hands (and cutters) at work!

Cutting fabric for wheelchair & preemie quilts

Vice president Gwen kicking things off

Fabric for preemie quilts is coming together into kits for members to pick up and assemble.

And here are some completed kits for members to pick up to make wheelchair lap quilts

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This lovely quilt stand was generously donated to us and won as a door prize by this lucky lady.

And 9 darling preemie quilts were donated bringing our total for the year to 33. Several of them are included in the gallery below. Thanks for your generous donations to this important initiative.

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