News:
Fund Raiser~
Thanks to everyone who helped us with our
Christmas and Valentine card fundraisers. It was a successful trial.
Hopefully we'll be able to better market them next year and raise even
more funds!
Retreat!!!
Registration
for the 2010 QOV Kansas Retreat is now open! I hope you are as excited
as I am about that! Because of PQG Quilt Show in June, our retreat is
coming a little early this year, March 19th through 21st. All the
details can be found at the "Annual Retreat"
link to the left. At the
bottom of the info blurb is a link to the registration form. We also
have a new QOV Kansas T-shirt for those who attend! So get signed up
soon!
Quilt
Backing~
Recently we had several quilts donated from various QOV supporters that
had backing with them. Unfortunately, the backing was unusable. Backing
that is peiced together with multiple scraps of different colors and
patterns; backing that is children's print; backing that is not 100%
cotton is unacceptable for a QOV. QOV KS has received enough donations
from multiple American Legion Rider posts that we can afford to
purchase backing if you are unable to provide suitable backing. If your
finances
are limited in making the top, and you are unalbe to provide matching,
high quality backing for your top, don't sweat it. We will find backing
for it. We want the QOVs we make to last for generations and we will
strive to ensure that the best fabric goes on the back of the quilt to
make it a true heirloom gift for our hero.
A
Note from the Committee~
We truly appreciate everything you do and contribute for the benefit of
our Wounded Warriors. Your efforts are invaluable in helping us to achieve
our goal of covering every wounded service member with a Quilt of Valor.
Here are some things to keep in mind when you choose fabrics:
- Always pick 100% cotton fabrics. Cotton endures better in the long run and is essential for our heirloom quality quilts.
- Quilt tops can be completed in any color combination.
Most recipients prefer our national colors of red, white & blue.
(The fabrics do not have to be of a patriotic print – just red,
white, and blue combinations.) Tone on tone fabrics are always good.
- Please don’t use cute or kids fabrics. Our quilts are to honor our national heroes: i.e. heirloom quality.
- Backing should not be strips of whatever is left
over. If you want to make a pieced back to go along with the pieced
top, that is acceptable.
Now for some bad news:
With the thousands of wounded service members, we clearly want to spend
our time, effort, and energy completing the quilts we get in. So,
please do a quality control check of your completed piece. Recently our
Bee members have had to re-work many quilt tops due to unmatched seams,
unevenly pieced tops, gaps where seams should have been sewn, and other
glaring errors. We have had to add additional fabric as borders to make
the quilt fit our minimum size. We all make mistakes, but we
don’t have the time to correct your mistakes.
Quilts of Valor are not charity quilts! We can no
longer accept quilts that are not deemed heirloom quality or mixed
cotton and poly-cotton blend fabrics. When tops come in which are
definitely not heirloom, they are set aside. Sometimes those tops are
used to make “transport blankets” – for the wounded
in transport planes taking them to a hospital. We really want the best
for our nation’s heroes.
Remember this standard is set by QOV-national. We are following their guidelines.
In addition to the above – we don’t want your leftover
scraps of fabric. If you are donating fabric, please give us 1 to 4
yard cuts; we have too many fat quarters. Or better yet, if you
don’t know what type of fabric works, give us a gift certificate
and we will choose fabrics that go well with what we already have.
Thank you.
Fabric
Needs:
What
we mainly need is this: NO
MORE FAT QUARTERS OR SCRAPS! We have
fat quarters and scraps coming out of our ears! What we really need is
yardage. Especially reds, and most especially some more
vibrant
reds. What we have on hand is mostly the darker country tones.
We
can get a binding for a quilt out of 3/4 yd cut. We can get a
pillowcase out of a yard. We can make borders out of a 2 yd
cut.
And we can get a backing out of a 4 yd cut. If you have a
coupon,
get a 6 yd cut and we can get the backing, binding, and pillowcase out
of matching fabric!
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Prayer Requests:
1.
Katy's cousin, SSgt Steven Eakins, was in a severe auto
accident
on October 20th. He is in a coma and listed in critical condition.
Steven has a daughter who just turned 3, and a 3 month old son. Please keep Steven and his family in
your prayers.
2.
Martha's son, Sean, a Sgt in the Marine Corp, made it home safely from Iraq! Praise!
3. Janice has been sick and was addmitted to the hospital on Feb 12th.
The family respectfully requests no visitors until she is well again.
But prayers and cards are always appreciate! Add her Caring
Bridge
site to your favorites and check up on her often. We miss you, Janice!!
If
you have a prayer concern you would like to share with the group,
please e-mail me
to have your prayer request listed.
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