April and May Workshops!

APRIL WORKSHOP:  We thought we wouldn't get a good turn out since it was the day before Easter but we were pleasantly surprised to see these dedicated ladies come and sew!! We worked together on making a chevron rail fence quilt top for something springy and new! These ladies brought in 10 finished preemie quilts and 8 finished kids quilt plus several finished quilt tops! Thanks quilters!!

Tamie decided to put together a red, white and blue chevron rail fence quilt kit.

Rebecca at the cutting board!

Debbie and Melinda working side-by-side.

Our chevron rail fence quilt top ready to be sewn together.  Will make a lovely quilt for a little boy or girl!

MAY WORKSHOP: 

We welcomed Eileen for the first time to our workshops.  She started in right away and worked on preemie quilts.

Rebecca working on binding quilts she had quilted.  She is the expert long-arm quilter of the group!!

Debbie is working on a cute quilt!

Ellen is laying out a scrap block quilt to put together.

This was our last workshop for the summer.  The Annapolis Quilt Guild is having their annual Quilts by the Bay Quilt show at the Annapolis High School June 14th and 15th and July is vacation month for some. Hope to see you at the Quilt Show or in August at the next workshop!

We will be making a couple of deliveries this summer so check back to see what kids we have blessed with the quilts of love you have made. 

If you would like a quilt kit or would like to donate a quilt or fabric, please contact me at annapolisqfk@gmail.com.  Have a great summer!!!!!

Next Workshop - April

Next week is our 3rd Saturday workshop on April 19th from 10:30 - 1:30 at BACC, room 223!! Since it will be Easter weekend and we may not have a huge turn out I thought we could all join in to make one quilt . . . chevron rail fence! We will also have kits available if anyone would like to work on one of those, finish a current project or take something home. Hope to see you on Saturday!

Photos from the March National Quilting Day Workshop!

Quilts donated from our March workshop!

Last month we donated 31 quilts to the Stanton Community Center in Downtown Annapolis for children in need!!

Worldwide Quilting Day!

March 15th is Worldwide Quilting Day also known in the US as National Quilting Day.  National Quilting Day celebrates quilts and those who make them. That's US!! So what are we going to do?  We are going to quilt all day on March 15th from 10:30 am until 4:30 pm at BACC in room 223.

We will have kits available for everyone. All you need to bring is:

• your sewing machine 
• sewing supplies (scissors, thread, seam ripper, bobbin, needles)
• a lunch.  
• a snack to share (optional)

There will also be some door prizes (if you would like to donate a door prize let me know).

We are planning to deliver some quilts to the Stanton Community Center hopefully this month!

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year!

In 2013 we made and delivered 110 quilts, 61 quilted tote bags, 30 preemie quilts, and 6 pillowcases to AAMC, the Lighthouse Homeless Prevention Center, Walk the Walk Foundation, Oklahoma tornado victims, Chrysalis House, Arden House, and Northern Virginia Nursing Students Association.

Thank you all so much for all your generosity this past year donating your time, talents and fabric to help children in need!

45 quilted tote bags mailed to Virginia for the Children's National Medical Center in DC!

We cleaned out our quilt supply in December and need to start stocking up for a delivery! I will be calling around to different organizations to see where the biggest need is soon. 

We are going "Back to the Basics" this month. For those of you who haven't been to a workshop in a while and are rusty or if you need some instruction, I will be demonstrating the basics of how to take one of our kits and sew a quilt top together.

Feel free to come, sew, chat and just enjoy the day making a special gift for a child in need! Please bring your sewing machine, supplies and a lunch if you desire. I will bring fruit and bagels.

Where: Bay Area Community Church, room 223 (or the blue room, I will have a sign posted telling what room number)
When: Saturday, January 18th from 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Hope to see you there!

Workshop and Deliveries

We had a great workshop on in November!  We had seven ladies come out and were working hard to reach our goals for December!!  Our next workshop is scheduled for January 18th.  Looking forward to seeing you then!!

Becca in 11 finished quilted tote bags!!

Deborah finished 2 tote bags!  It's so encouraging to see this young lady sewing for others!

Dee came out for the first time.  She put together a preemie quilt and did a fantastic job!

Melinda had brought in Christmas preemie kits she had made at home and was sewing them together.  They always turn out so cute!!

Carol use to help out with QFK several years ago, we are so glad to have her return!!

Becca working on more tote bags!

Deliveries!!

We mailed 45 quilted tote bags to Virginia, delivered 17 preemie quilts to Anne Arundel Medical Center, had 47 quilts picked up from Walk the Walk Foundation and gave 1 quilt to a little girl at the Lighthouse Shelter in Annapolis!  All for children in need!!! Thank you everyone for ending the year with a bang!

45 quilted tote bags ready to go to the Post Office!!!

September/October Workshops

We had two workshops in the past three weeks!! At the September workshop, Jasmine, Jade and Aryanna  came out and put together cute quilt tops! They are our home schoolers who are improving on their quilting skills every month!! Becca was also there and we dug into our QFK scrap pile and cut up 6 1/2" squares to make more I Spy quilts. Becca also donated four adorable quilts!!  Thank you!

On Saturday, we had our October Workshop with Julie, an avid sewer but new to QFK. Julie made two darling quilted tote bags that we are donating in December. Becca came and dropped off three beautiful quilts and grabbed more kits to work on this next month. Thanks to all of you who came out!!!

Jade

Jasmine and Aryanna

Becca

September Workshop Cancelled

We are cancelling our workshop for Saturday, September 21st. There is a big event at the church and it got bigger so they need our room. We may try and get the room for the 28th if people can make it out on the day (please, let me know) otherwise we will meet again next month.
Thanks for understanding!