Outreach ProgramS

The Outreach Committee serves an important role. It organizes the making and donation of a variety of items: including, but not limited to quilts, books, totes.

If you like to share your love of quilting with a needy member of our community, please contact our Outreach Committee Chair, Wendy Jones to see how you can help.

“Partners” (Outreach Facility)

Piedmont Medical Center (Ongoing)

The hospital has two needs:

  1. Women who have lost babies. These women need some love after their loss.  So these “Comfort Quilts” will go to them.
  2. Women who come to the hospital to have babies but do not have much of anything else, materialistically.  So this is a little “Blessing Quilt” for these ladies.  We have chosen a larger size so as the child grows, they can continue to use it.

Comfort Quilt Sizes:  50”-60” x 70”

Blessing Quilt Sizes:  42” x 50” (By keeping it under 45”, the backing will be easy.)

Pilgram’s Inn (Ongoing)

This facility has 10 apartments, shelters 14 beds, a day care center, and a food pantry.  They care for women and children up to 5 years old.

This outreach has two needs:

  1. Women’s quilts Sizes: 60” x 90”
  2. Children’s quilt Sizes: 42” X 50”

Haven’s Men Shelter 

This facility has 24 beds, all twin size.  As we learn more about this outreach,  we will pass on the information.  Now we get to make some quilts for men!

This outreach has one need:

  1. Men’s quilts Sizes: 60” x 90”

Rock Hill Dialysis 

The dialysis center has to keep the facility on the colder side.  With this being said, they currently care for 95 patients, 18 years and older, with no pediatric patients. 

This outreach needs men’s or women’s quilts

  1. Sizes: 60” x 80”

Any of these quilts can be within 5” of the given dimensions, one way or the other.

DROP OFF Locations

  • YCQG Monthly Meetings at the OUTREACH table.
  • First Fridays – Look for Wendy Jones
  • Or, Contact Wendy at ycqgoutreach@gmail.com to make other arrangements.

DONATIONS: Donations of fabrics, including reasonable sized scraps, and batting pieces are always welcome and needed.

OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP OUTREACH

  • Picking up a project at the Grab and Go area on the Outreach table during monthly meetings
  • Making something on your own- please see quilt sizes. This also includes any burp cloths and receiving blankets
    *Contact Wendy if looking for materials (fabrics and batting)
  • Volunteering to do the quilting. Long-armers are very appreciated and needed for the bigger quilts. There are smaller quilts for domestic machine quilters too.
  • Outreach also needs people to sew on binding!

As Sherry and Denise asked during their time in Outreach- make your quilts with love!
And please say a prayer for the person receiving one of our quilts, may they be blessed.
We ARE blessing our community with Love!!