Like a lot of quilt guilds, mine makes quilts for charity. Our favorite is for the Royal Family Kid's Camp, a summer camp for foster children. The children who come to the week-long camp, go home with a quilt of their very own! Having adopted a child who spent time in foster care,this project has always been close to my heart. For some of children who go to this camp, that quilt will be the one thing they get to keep from their childhood--the one thing with pleasant memories attached, at least. Last night we had our meeting where the director of the camp comes and take the quilts away. We had 66 of them. As you can see, they were hanging on the backs of chairs when we came into the room. When it came time to give them away, everyone grabbed a quilt and we had a parade! They were wonderful!
Sadly, this might be the last year we get to do this as the director is retiring and is still trying to find a replacement. We've been making quilts for the Royal Family Kids Camp for TWELVE YEARS! A rough estimate, of about 65 quilts per year, that comes up to 780 quilts! When we first started, other Royal Family Kids Camps were springing up across the U.S. When they found out about the quilt program "our" camp had, they started doing it too! But it all started with us! How fun is that? I hope we will be able to continue with this project.
3 comments:
Hmm...a retiring director? Perhaps you might consider applying for the position - a little something to do in "your spare time." Tee-hee
spare time???? WHAZZAT? LOL
Great you did this all these years, so many quilts for so many children and it really is sad that this is going to stop just because there is no replacement for the director, but don't give up hope, may be, somewhere, there is a nice person who wants that position!
Hugs,
Inge from the Netherlands
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