Charity Quilting
Making & Sharing Warm Fuzzies
Quilters are incredibly giving and sharing -- of their time, talents, and gifts. With charity quilting they provide the comforting warmth and softness of a quilt, and the special significance of a gift made with love. It is therefore no surprise that there are many non-profit organizations that have been established for the sole purpose of providing handmade quilts for individuals and families in need of comfort. These organizations provide quilts to children, families of fallen Soldiers, wounded Soldiers, adults suffering from illness, and more.
Quilting for Kids in Need
No one needs the comfort and security of a cuddly quilt more than a child suffering from illness or trauma. Quilters step up to meet the challenge by donating quilts in their communities, such as to women's shelters or foster care, or through a variety of non-profit organizations specifically for helping children in need.
Project Linus
The blanketeers of the
Lubbock Chapter Project Linus
selflessly give of their time, talents, and materials to make handmade blankets for local children suffering from illness, trauma, or devastating loss. Children who receive Project Linus blankets may include those hospitalized in local hospitals, those in children's homes or foster care, those who have suffered a devastating loss or trauma, and the children and young siblings of West Texas heroes -- law-enforcement, first-responders, and military personnel killed in the line of duty. Blanketeers quilt, crochet, knit, sew, and those who don't sew even make cuddly fleece blankets! They ask nothing for themselves, not even recognition.
Project Linus, at www.projectlinus.org,
a volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was started in 1995 when Karen Loucks was inspired to provide homemade security blankets to Denver’s Rocky Mountain Children’s Cancer Center after reading an article titled “Joy to the World” in Parade Magazine. Since then, thousands of volunteer blanketeers provide love, security, warmth, and comfort to traumatized or seriously ill children through their gifts of new, handmade quilts and afghans. There are now hundreds of local chapters all over the United States and Canada who have donated over 3 million blankets to children in need!
Big Mamas Legacy
Big Mamas Legacy,
a 501(c)(3) charitable organization devoted to providing hand-made "hugs" in the form of quilts to children and adults in need, honors the memory of my Great-Grandmother, Big Mama, but even more than that it carries on the tradition of giving hand-made stitched items to children in need.
In addition to donating quilts and blankets to organizations such as Project Linus and Quilts for Kids,
Big Mamas Legacy
also donates quilts to organizations that provide quilts to families of Soldiers killed in action or to wounded Soldiers.
Quilts for Kids
Quilts for Kids
is an international organization that transforms discontinued and unwanted fabrics into quilts. Quilts for Kids has distributed tens of thousands of quilts worldwide to children suffering from serious illnesses or abuse.
Quilts for Soldiers and their families
Quilts of Valor Foundation
The goal of the
Quilts of Valor Foundation
is to provide a handmade quilt to every Soldier wounded in the service of their country, to show them gratitude and to welcome them home.
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