Quilting Care Packages for Flood Victims

Wow, is all I can say. Thank you so much for your comments and support in this project. I am so excited to be able to do something for the wonderful quilters affected by the floods and your words are just wonderful. Thank you sooooooo much. In the last posts comments, you can see the help we are getting from all of these ladies, Sandi is already making quilts and other items to send down to the flood areas and has a blog http://sewandshare.blogspot.com/ to share the progress with that. Colleen is already delivering fabric to Pine Needles, a quilt shop in

Cedar Rapids

, you go girl, that is great!!! Kim, Barbara, Gale, Marilyn, Johnnie and Carol are sending us donations and even Nikki all the way from

Bosnia

.

Shannon

is pulling donations from her guild in

New Hampshire

and YES

Shannon

, sending it in a great big box would be great. Candra is from the area and tells us that this effort will be appreciated. I want to extend to you Candra that we are planning on helping smaller communities also, thank you for your post.

 

 

I have gotten lots of e-mails from readers and just wanted to say thank you to all of you.

Nann from

Illinois

is sending us fabric and passed our message along, http://withstringsattached.blogspot.com

Kathy from

Wisconsin

posted our message on her guilds yahoo group and is sending “stuff “ our way.

Kay in

North Carolina

is clearing out her garage (much to her husbands joy!) and sending to us.

Gale in

Newfoundland

,

Canada

  is sending us a package with all sorts of quilting goodies.

I contacted some of my friends and fellow designer for some extra help with this project and right away got some great responses.

Debbie Bowles from Maple Island Quilts www.mapleislandquilts.com sent me an e-mail and is sending us some of her fabulous designs.

So is Celine Perkins of Perkins Dry Goods, www.perkinsdrygoods.com , she visited the area and knows the extent of the floods first hand.

Pat Sloan www.patsloan.typepad.com is spreading the word through her fabulous blog and yahoo group and is also supporting us with a donation.

Linda Parker, Elanor Burns and the gang at Quilt In A Day www.quiltinaday.com are sending us some of their incredible books and rulers.

Thank you so much to everybody that have responded, I am overwhelmed with joy and excitement to see the outpouring of support from all over the globe. Linda said it perfectly in the comments, “Quilters love to help quilters.”

Please keep adding those comments or drop me an e-mail. I love to hear from you. I will be posting updates on the donations.

Love, Gudrun

 

PS. I don’t know why TypePad added all of these spaces in between my words and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it!!?? Sorry!

Comments

[Sandi Andersen]

Thanks, Gudrun, for posting the link to our Sew and Share blog. We had a very successful day and will be holding another sewing day, actually two days in Sept. - Fri. the 19th and Sat. the 20th. I'll be posting more info on it in the coming days. Getting ready to post photos of large quilts donated and each day this week will post more items to be donated. After talking to Mindy at the Salvation Army in CR this morn, it is clear that the need is huge and will be for months to come. Also, I will send some patterns and such off to you by the end of July. Sandi

[Pat]

How wonderful of you to organize this effort. I read about it on Pat Sloan's blog today and came right here to read about what you are doing. I was moved by this effort and have just contacted the gal who does the newsletter for our guild. I gave her the link to your blog and am quite certain she will put something in our newsletter...which should be out within the next week. Our guild is good-sized and, as with most guilds, has very generous members. I am quite certain some will respond and contribute to your effort. Pat in DE

[Sarah]

Love to help! And my husband too would be thrilled to see my stash(s) go down. I'll definately send a package their way. I know how heartbreaking it is to not be able to find one special piece of fabric I had stashed -- It would be unimaginable to lose my entire collection. I'm glad to help though!

[jenclair]

I've added a post to help spread the word and have my package ready to go. Thanks for helping all of us contribute.

[Jean Taylor]

I just mailed a box of quilting books and patterns by media mail. You should receive them "before Christmas"! Hopefully in the next week or so... Thank you for the opportunity to share my abundance with others!! Jean from Burke

[Judy JEsse]

Where would I send quilts I make for flood victums tht I know will not get lost or sit in a warehose somewhere. I want them used for people that need them.