Monica is looking for 10 volunteers (who are double vaccinated!) to come to the Port Dover library on Sunday, September 19th for a Charity Sewing Day. We are going to be making Fidget Quilts for local retirement homes and we have been asked to make 25 of them. They will be going to the retirement homes in Simcoe, Waterford, Port Dover and Delhi.
Monica has assembled lots of textured fabrics, ribbons, zippers, fringe, rickrack, strapping, rock fabric and Bosal interfacing to make it poofy. We’ve been asked not to use any plastic, as that may not stand up in an industrial washing machine. There should be enough to make 10 of these nine-patch fidget quilts using her supplies.
What would be great is if participants could bring 9-10″x10″ pieces of brightly coloured background fabric with a stabilizer on the back. Or one solid piece of about 30″x30″ fabric. Also a piece of batting and backing. It is highly recommended that we use flannel on the back to avoid the quilt slipping off the resident’s laps.
Monica will also be having another day in October, hopefully to sew lap quilts!
So in short. September 19th, 9am at the Port Dover Public Library for this fun, community-need driven sew day. If you have ribbons or textured fabric, large buttons and zippers, please bring them with background fabric on stabilizer, batting and flannel backing. And your sewing machine and the basic supplies.
If you are interested, please send an email to twilightsimcoe@gmail.com. We will take the first 10 double vaccinated volunteers!
Twilight Quilters' Guild of Norfolk County 