handmade hugs
Below are two quilts for Handmade Hugs shown at our February 2024 meeting.
Here are some photos from the October 2023 sewing day.
Jamie Davis and Olivia Turnham, Community Service Co-Chairs
Community Service Co-Chair
After the April Meeting we held a Handmade Hugs Workshop. Thank you for your help.
We always have a community service project going on. We take pride in the projects we have taken on in the past, and are always looking for ways to better serve our community.
Our community service project for this year is receiving blankets for the Birthing Center and blankets for teens, especially boys, in foster care. Please contact Faith Chaney or Phyl Byrnes if you would like a kit for a receiving blanket or a teen blanket.
Our most recent efforts were coordinated at our “Handmade Hugs“ workshops. Quilts were cut and bagged as kits, sewn, backed, quilted and bound. Receiving blankets and burp cloths were made and distributed to YRMC. When coronavirus broke out, guild members along with community members made thousands of face masks which were distributed to community organizations.
Additionally, some of the many projects in which we have participated include:
- Children’s quilts for local foster children
- Pillowcases for the local men’s shelter
- Small pillows and pillow cases for women & children’s shelter
- Patriotic lap quilts for local veterans
- Christmas stockings for needy families
- Quilts of Valor
- Quilts for local schools
- Pillows, sensory quilts, and walker bags for the elderly
- Bed quilts for the victims of the 2013 Yarnell fire
- Sewing lessons for a local middle school “life skills” classes
- Quilts for Hospice patients
- Receiving blankets and burp cloths for newborns
PRESCOTT ADULT CENTER QUILT DISPLAYS
March 2024 Quilts
“A One Woman Show” by Shirlee Smith
January 2024 Quilts
November 2023 – Christmas Quilts
A description of the quilts can be found at: Quilt Descriptions 11 27 23
October 2023 – Scrappy Quilts
July 2023
The theme for the new Adult Center Quilt Display is “Flowers.” Our members’ talents are showcased and, once again, the visitors to the adult center are in total amazement.
The talented members whose quilts are on display are Suzy Davidson, Molly Haney-Burleigh, Barbara Merkel, Sandy Mitchell, Dawnell Muecke, Shirlee Smith, Susan Sweet and Charlotte York.
The quilts will be on display for a few months; so, be sure to stop by the Prescott Adult Center on Rosser St. where you will be showered with flowers!
An announcement will be made at an upcoming meeting when it’s time to collect quilts for the next exhibit.
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If you have the opportunity to visit the Prescott Adult Center at 1280 Rosser Street, you will be surprised at the quilt exhibit in the main lobby. It’s like a mini quilt show!
We have another wonderful display of quilts hanging at the Adult Center. Lorraine Owen is our featured quilter and the visitors at the Adult Center were so excited to see her beautiful array of quilts. Her wide ranging talent is on display. Lorraine is often inspired by a quilt she sees and adds her own designs to it. She frequently attends our TBQ workshops to enhance her creativity. Her talents also include machine quilting and hand quilting. Some of the quilts on display are paper-pieced, a technique she loves because of the accuracy it delivers. She may find a block she loves and will use it to design a quilt, as seen in the basket quilt. One of the quilts, Cowboy Scrapbook, was inspired by the Amy Bradley face designs, but Lorraine added her own cowgirl flare to it. It was 1 of 100 quilts that traveled to Tucson, Sedona and Sharlot Hall for the Arizona Centennial Celebration.
Be sure to stop by the Prescott Adult Center on Rosser St. where you will surely get some inspiration from Lorraine’s remarkable quilts.
Every few months, our team of volunteers takes another set of ten quilts to be shown off to the community. Sometimes the quilts are themed: i.e., seasonal, stars, colors, etc., and sometimes it’s a one-person show. An announcement will be made at the meeting when new quilts are needed. Visitors to the Adult Center enjoy the exhibit and always look forward to seeing our wonderful display.
