Charity Updates

We have been award a grant from the Las Vegas Centennial Commission in the amount of $650. to pay for the Children’s Centennial Quilt. We have collected over 40 blocks for the quilt and are figuring out how to set the very imaginative blocks. The money also allowed us to buy a portable quilt stand to use to display the quilt and then later, to be used by the guild as needed. In the long history of the Guild, this is the first grant we ever applied for. Our 501 © (3) tax status was an important part of the application process. Our thanks to peg Cummings and her committee for finding the grant and urging us to apply. The recognition of our worth to the community should make us all proud! Ann Pugh, 2005 Quilt Show Chair

Sunrise Mountain Binky Patrol Sunrise Mountain Quilt Circle delivered 31 small quilts for the children of Ronald McDonald House on Saturday, June 12, 2004.

Members of Sunrise Mountain make small quilts/binkies to comfort children in need and deliver quilts to Ronald McDonald House on a regular basis as well as donate butterfly quilts to the Silk Butterfly Program from Nathan Adelson Hospice. The Silk Butterfly Program is a program that provides services to children in the hospital who will never make it to hospice. (Contact: Ruth Sunday)

For the past 5 years, Quilts 4 Cancer, (Q4C) has worked with many volunteers to have quilts for each and every child with cancer in the area medical centers. To date, most of the quilts have come from NY & AZ - this policy needs to change. WE NEED 150 QUILTS FOR NEW CASES EACH YEAR FROM THE LAS VEGAS AREA.

If our Las Vegas quilters work as a team, we can gain more support with fabric and batting donations. Q4C is the national 501C3 charity that coordinates the efforts.

In 2003 there was a NATIONAL contest for a Bernina Sewing machine for the quilts for NATIONAL programs, not just Las Vegas. Quilts came in but we found many with pins and many too small to use for a child. WE are in need of your help and cooperation.

Today there are over 30,000 children in the USA having one type of treatment or another. EACH YEAR OVER 4,000 CHILDREN DIE OF CANCER IN THE USA ! We can give so much comfort with quilts.

On Saturday, December 6, representatives from Sunrise Mountain Quilt Circle and Green Valley Quilters joined quilters from Pahrump in distributing 230 quilts at the Candelighter's Children's Christmas Party for children with cancer and other debilitating diseases.
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Stacked taller than Donna Waldron	Judy Wootan (GV Quilters), Victoria (Quilted Dragon-Pahrump) Tonie Keith & Ruth Sunday (Sunrise Mountain Quilt Circle) - in back row Barbara Mason (GV Quilters), Sue Pulmbo (Pahrump), and Donna Waldron (Sunrise) - in front row

Kids with our quilts.

DQN has been asked to donate quilts for the Ronald McDonald House guest rooms. These quilts will be used in the rooms on a continual basis. They are not for the guests to take home, but to be used during their stay at the Ronald McDonald House. They would like 12 total queen-size quilts, in matched pairs because there are two queen beds per room. The dimensions of the finished quilts are: 84" W x 102" L. They did not specify patterns or colors but I saw the rooms and suggest using off-white, cream, tan or peach for the light tones, and brights such as blues, purples, greens for the other tones. The rooms are painted primarily peachy/tan with a deep, colonial blue as an accent color. The colors for the quilts are my suggestion. There were a couple of scrappy quilts there already and they looked great, so scrappy quilts are welcome, too.

We are lucky enough to have the machine quilting and batting already donated by Karen Nolte and the Southern Nevada Longarm Quilters.

Quilt Bags continues to meet the 2nd Friday of each month at the Rainbow Library at 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. Join us; bring a brown bag lunch and your machine if you like. We make quilts for charity. Chille also has kits at meetings to make at home on your own schedule. Between now and November we prepare for our 4th annual "sort and stuff." We gather those hotel samples and look for sales on washcloths, toothbrushes for adults and kids, razors, etc.

This year it was our pleasure to give 369 quilts ranging from baby size through large (queen) size. The large quilts are given to help families to restart their lives. All of this is done with donations from quilters and our only expense is for battings which we cover with the sale of a few of our quilts during the year.

We give to Child Haven , Safe Nest, Salvation Army, Shade Tree and UMC Newborns. In addition, we sent quilts to the Cancer Society and are working on quilts for the Veterans' Home in Boulder City. We have 21 completed and are working on the balance of 44 to be done in time to deliver for Valentine's Day, February 14, 2004

Thanks are in order for some special helpers. Judy Yen for storage and all her thousands of pieced blocks which are used mostly for adults in rest homes (this hear the Veterans). Judy has now relocated to Laguna Beach, California, and we sure miss her. Another to be thanked is our ever-ready longarm quilter, Tom Lewers, who has machine quilted hundreds of quilts in the past two years. Our new storage person is Martha Mayes, and we are so grateful to have use of her room.

Our delivery crew this year consists of Julie Kramer, Joan Briggs, Donna Courson and Luise Shafritz. About 300 of these quilts were delivered on the 9th of December, just in time for Holiday gifting.

Without people like these and all the Lone Mountain Helping Hands, my job would be greatly curtailed and the number of quilts we give would be much smaller. Than you every one!

Our 3rd annual "sort and stuff was another resounding success. We stuffed 327 bags with hygiene products for men and women. We received 267 Christmas stocking for children. At press time, 150 stockings were filled with hygiene products, toys, mittens, etc., with more items waiting in Martha Mayes' garage to be stuffed.

Now that you have all "made merry," it is time to get back to work! We will meet the 2nd Friday of each month at the Rainbow Library from 10 am to about 2:30 or 3:00 pm. Bring a lunch.

(Quilt Bags is an offshoot of Lone Mountain Quilters and is dedicated to doing strictly charity quilts for the needy in our valley. ALL our materials are donated, mostly by Lone Mtn. quilters. They are then quilted by new long-arm quilters for practice in using their new machines. Leader: Carol Hille)