After meeting this week, some of us are working on getting together February's activity: Warming the Homeless. We are planning to make blanket rolls to hand out at local shelters.
Several fabric reps have donated samples of discontinued patterns, and more are coming in every day. The plan is to assemble a small army of volunteer seamstresses to piece them together into patchwork quilts that can be folded and tied into portable bedrolls. I am working on getting donations of batting and/or backing from hobby stores, and Melissa McGee is gathering the fabric samples. There are many benefits to using commercial fabrics: they are more durable, stain resistant, some are anti-microbial, and they come in great colors and patterns! One square of each quilt will have an ironed-on directory of local shelters and soup kitchens, and the bus lines they can be found on.
Anyone with a sewing machine, or the desire to learn to use one, is welcome to pitch in! Work party dates to-be-announced!
1 comment:
I LOVE this project idea, I see so much potential for beautiful patchwork and so much warmth in a very cold winter as the snow piles down around my apartment tonight.
Let's continue to conceptualize these ideas... please consider the following questions:
* The appropriate dimensions of a patchwork blanket
* How we’re going to hold it all together
* Whether to use backing or two sheets of fabric samples
* How to get the homeless services resource sheet onto the blankets
* How to make it portable
* How to encourage sustainable future use and reuse of these blankets after the weather gets warm
Thanks for the effort, let's recruit volunteers and start stitching early/mid-January.
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