::Download and links www.ilovetomakequilts.com/2024/05/did-i-get-any-of-the-pressed-flowers-done-.html ::My tulip pattern amzn.to/4bbXjDY ::FREE Halloween Mystery with the FQS!! -Spooky & Sweet kit preorder shrsl.com/4ilyh -Fabric I’m using + my stash shrsl.com/4ilyn -Blossom I’m using shrsl.com/4ilyk -XS thread kit and material used shrsl.com/4iatg - Also I’m making this darling FREE kitty and pumpkin at the same time shrsl.com/4hxhh
I love to volunteer and tend to be a “yes” when asked. I volunteered 16 years ago to temporarily visit a shut in from our church. I still enjoy our weekly visits! Im also a downtown ambassador for city on the first Friday of each month. In addition I serve on the Think Pink committee for our 10 day Cherry Blossom festival. My final commitment is to be the education chair for Keep Macon Bibb Beautiful. Smaller volunteer opportunities include a lector for our church, a committee chair for the garden club, etc etc etc! I hope the next generation will embrace volunteerism the way we have!
Hello Pat , I volunteer locally in the UK for a national charity helping elderly people . I have been visiting housebound people once a fortnight just for a chat etc for about 20 years . The lady I visit now has just had her 97th birthday ! . Through this organisation during lockdown I started doing supermarket shopping for vulnerable people .. I am still shopping now once a week for another lady who has sight and mobility issues. I so enjoy your videos and chats .
I make charity quilts for our nicu, rape & domestic abuse, the connection homeless shelter & all i have made 6 QOV quilts. I always make pet beds for the humane society & vets. In between family quilts.
I'm 71 and don't volunteer now. But several years ago, around the time of my husband's death I volunteered in an energy assistance program helping with paperwork and also in a foodbank, also in the paperwork, signing people through, etc. It was amusing to me in the fact of my duties. I sat at a long table between two much older ladies and was told that was where I must stay. I found out later it was because the older ladies didn't get along at all. So, I sat in between them to keep the peace. Luckily, they both liked me. It was very rewarding work. Also, I lost my grandson in Hospice 5 years ago. He was 24. He had a quilt from me on his bed. Just a few days before losing him he asked me if I would like to make quilts for Hospice. Bless his heart. It kept my sanity getting busy on them. We lost my first Great Grand baby at the same time at just 5 weeks. I make quilts of comfort in their memory wherever I find a need.
My heart goes out to you in your losses. I just had to say this, as I felt like a heel just clicking a like on a thumbs up image. I did chuckle about you being the 'peace keeper'. Since you are a quiltmaker, it could also be 'piecekeeper'!
I only did one quilt so far for charity. Through my Church it went to The Pregnancy Stress Center. I have been trying to get a sew group started t to meet one month.
Pat I am a volunteer with the Peninsula Angel Quilters (Newport News Virginia) We meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the local church where we rent a room and we make quilts for children. We just celebrated our 1st year. During this first year we gave away 250 quilts and hope to give away so many more this next year.
I volunteer in a weekly church quilt group here in northern Virginia. We have about 10-12 members and make about 130 quilts a year. We give our quilts to new mothers in need, new refugees setting up a home, abused children, foster children, and people affected by disasters. I love my fellow quilters in our group!
I volunteer with Project Linus here in Savannah. We do Sew days and Quilting days to make quilts for kids in need from our local community. Such a wonderful group.
I love your purple tulips. I made your Quilt for Ukraine, sent it to the Lutheran Collection Center and it was so heartwarming. I volunteer for the local Democrats which is important to me, met so many nice people.
My daughter is a dog foster mom and I help her with things like nail trims, photos, kennel set ups, laundry ( I also patch sheets and things needed) and lately bottle feeding and babysitting these poor orphaned babies until they can move forward into the destination of finding their forever homes.
It was so nice of you to share the sewing space from the different angle. The map fabric was awesome! Also interesting the difference in the Eagle quilts. I volunteered today at my friend's Special Education school for their Carnival day. God bless those amazing Teachers!!
Good morning! I had worked in a local hospital and made friends in different departments; when I retired, I volunteered in the infusion room of the Cancer Center. I baked and handed out cookies, got warm blankets, beverages and snacks for the patients, chatted with patients, and restocked the supplies for the nurses. It was wonderfully fulfilling! I had to leave when I became the caregiver for a family member stricken with cancer.
Thanks for working with the children. I'm sure you are appreciated by all in the schools. My son is a teacher, so I see how weary they can become depending on the year. Blessings to you!
I am former 8th grade U.S. history teacher. I LOVE the eagle quilt, especially the unexpected polka dots! Thanks for showing it. As for volunteer work-- for several years I have made pillowcases and donated to a camp for foster kids. They get to keep the pillowcases . Another project is quilts for kids removed from the home by social services. Face masks for several organizations in need during the pandemic was keeping me very busy. Right now I "teaching " a history about once a month at an assisted living facility. That's great fun!
I volunteer at a Therapeutic Riding Stable here in SW Ontario. I tack up the horse prior to the lesson and then lead the horse while the rider with disability follows the instructions given by the instructor; I am really enjoying it. @PatSloan, I was inspired by your horse quilt and am in the process of making one to donate to the stable for their fundraiser this fall😍🐎🇨🇦
I volunteer at school one day a week in Kindergarten and First Grade. I listen to kids read, help with testing, help with art projects that need to be completed one on one or in a small group. Those teachers work miracles every day! I don't know how they get everything accomplished.
You are so right. My son is a 4th grade teacher going on (i think) 15 years now. I always tell him I have no idea how I birthed a teacher. I could never do it, but I know he is a very patient and kind teacher since I saw his patience and interest in children develop. God bless all teachers who truly love the kids!!
I volunteered for my two daughter’s preschool, kindergarten and first grade classes. I did an extra year in first grade because the teacher was my cousin. 4 years later I started my career as a paid preschool assistant for 14 years.
I volunteer at a Wildlife sanctuary mainly with their butterfly exhibit. Chrysalises are ordered and come via Fedex, and a group of us put them on boards for display, plus other maintenance tasks.
At first I was like no I don’t volunteer… but, as you talked I realized that actually I do… I tried to train my pup to be a hospital comfort dog but, she could pass the test required to go into children hospital… however she was eligible to go into some care centers for the elderly. Folks love LOVE Lola❤ Lola (my puppy 8 years old now) loves it too. so, it’s a win WIN situation 🎉
Blessings to you and Lola. One of my dreads is thinking of getting too old to live in my home and have my kitties around me. I sure hope there is some furry friend to visit me once in a while if I live in that kind of situation!
My volunteering happens in cycles. It starts with my "balloon hand" disease. Someone asks for a volunteer and my hand goes up! Eventually I find myself over committed and in burn out mode (where I'm currently feeling) and I finish my term or project and sit on my hands to keep them from going up. At the moment I'm making quilts for donations and random gifts and chair for the church craft fair in the Fall.
Oh, my @patdeacon7818! You made me lol! I had never heard of balloon hand disease. Seems I, too, suffer from this malady. Glad to hear the cure is so simple. Thanks for the giggle😉
Hi all, enjoyed reading down through the whole list of volunteerism and the largest is definitely related to quilting. Mine is no different. Since I started quilting, making quilts has been my first love. All other crafts gradually went out the window. So in my guild, I volunteered by managing the quilt closet and setting up sew days for the charity we supported with quilts. (Women's Shelter in our city) Then later, it was through Project Linus I assisted the coordinator by doing the same thing. Maintaining the fabrics in support of our Bees, making kits, 'fixing" donated items that were not sized properly or other. Set up the room for the Bees. That kept me very busy. Now I am only making quilts for Quilts of Valor and Project Linus. Mobility issues have curtailed what I can do. But I can still push the pedal on sewing machines!!
I worked for 10 years at my local OXFAM charity shop that sold gifted clothes, books & household items, until it closed about 8 years ago. Now in my spare time I mostly knit fidget/twiddle muffs for my local hospital dementia unit - about 100 gifted so far. Love your Tulip 🌷quilt 💖
I'm a member of a bee that focuses on making NICU quilts. Most of us create from our own resources but we do maintain a donated stash for those who need it. We also cut and supply kits for our larger guild so members can make quilts to bring back to us. I also donate time with a theatre company I belong to sewing and maintaining costumes.
My daughter and I were NICU 28 week preemies. Thank you for your work. My mom made all the quilts we used for our daughter at the hospital 24 years ago.
Every Wednesday I volunteer at a church’s clothes closet, with 7-9 of my retired neighbors/friends. We sort and restock clothing after the public comes in for free clothing Monday and Tuesday. After last week’s southwest Michigan tornadoes, the Closet had a request for clothing so it was ‘all hands in deck’. The Closet delivered bags of clothing for mobile home park that was hard hit. The Pastor was pleased to see the outpouring of help he saw, as he delivered them. Many semis from neighboring communities and southern states.
Volunteering🎉 In the late 90’s for 2 years I volunteered at a local quilt shop to teach a children’s sewing class! It was sew much fun. A local grade school councilor reached out and sent some 5 grade girls along with some funding from a school grant. We went on sewing field trips. I did a full meal deal lol we shopped for fabric, made aprons. We learned to cook spaghetti dinner, set a table & serve the meal wearing our aprons. We made invitations, each got to invite 2 guests . We did a show & tell of their sewn projects which included shorts, Pj’s, hats, pot holders, etc… all their aprons and then the served meal. All this was learned/done over 8-9 months of meeting once a week. For me the real reward was that the once out cast girls started making hat and hair crunchies for classmates and became excepted by their piers. And present day.. I’m on fb with a few of those students and they still sew 😀
Any tips for a tired, old granny whose twin girl grands are now getting interested in sewing? They are dreaming up things for me to make for them, but they also want to help. I have mostly been a 'lone sewer' and I would say my skills and thinking patterns are more geared to the adult learner. Help!? I love them and want to , but not sure I have the patience.
@@jostauffer6637 I guess age is a factor… 5 & 6, 7 year olds I take the thread out and let them sew paper… draw simple lines and let them practice steering… no thread they love it❣️ but, there’s a lot of simple things to sew like book markers, hair scrunchies, mug rugs… pj shorts, simple charm square quilt and seriously don’t except prefection! Let them be happy with what ever they do 🤷🏻♀️😀
Pat, I am so happy that you are taking time for yourself and setting a more realistic sewing schedule. I have a few half starts with your sew alongs and it was getting a bit discouraging. Now I am picking and choosing better. And have decided to combine projects that are UFOs with similar colorways to get them done! Enjoy watching your channel. Love your vintage stuff as well as the newer. I collect food for food pantry from our guild and deliver it. And make charity quilts from time to time.
I volunteer as our church’s library coordinator and I am also part of our church’s quilting ministry. We make quilts for new babies and run a quilt camp twice a year.
Hello Pat I make mostly quilts for charity organizations mainly QOV and Project Linus . It helps me because I’m disabled do to back surgery and quilting is my therapy
My community service is once a month our church hosts a Pet Pantry, giving out supplemental dog and cat kibble, wet food, treats, and cat litter the help people keep their pets, but not enable them. Our church hosts two free meals a week for the community. Pet Pantry became an extension of that.
I volunteer at a local theater called The Acorn. It’s a non profit that has music, art, dance and community events. At Christmas my sister and I decorate the trees. Right now we are working on the float for our Flag Day parade. We are known as the Acorn Sisters and are always introduced that way😊
I have always volunteered. When my 3 girls were young I had 3 Girl Scout troops, and was site team chair for the meeting building and camp. Then I volunteered for two American Business Women Association chapters while I was working. Once I retired, I have volunteered a lot for my church as a lector, Eucharistic minister, the ladies society, and the pastoral council. Through all of my volunteering I have met so many people that I would never have known had I not volunteered.
Hi Pat at the moment (72) I coordinate 2 quilting/craft groups at our church the first group gew out of room so my darling daughter suggested I start another group, we have just come back from a small retreat, I'm also on church council and volunteer in our combined churches op shop, and had fostered 70 children and still support one in residential care. When we volunteer it takes our mind off our own trouble.
I have just moved to a new area so haven't gotten "plugged in" to new opportunities yet. But in my previous location I volunteered at my church in different areas. I also volunteered once a week at a local food cooperative. I have found volunteering is a part of my "make-up" and am looking forward to getting back into it.
I volunteer virtually with Quilts for Survivors (survivors of Residential Schools in Canada and day schools in the USA). I make quilts start to finish and mail it out to the next person on their waitlist. I also volunteer in person for my kids’ schools on field trips, parent council, fundraising, and have volunteered in the fundraising and paperwork process of having 3 playgrounds built in my neighbourhoods (3 is enough, I’m retired from that🤣), and also various neighbourhood events and programs
My husband and I spent years volunteering for our local Fire Department/Ambulance Service. It’s now separated and paid services but at that time our city was small. The logistics that went into answering the call to those pagers with 4 small kids was amazing but so many people helped!
Currently I am involved in an Angel Quilters group in Smithfield, VA, but have also in past helped a group of women make quilts for a Children's Hospital in North Carolina, and several years ago made quilts for prayers for Squares Ministry. There are so many opportunities out in communities.
I volunteer with Quilts of Valor (I just stepped down from being our groups record keeper and scheduler. Still do Vet Treatment Court awards at 4 courts of 6 in the area), but also with the local library (helping shelve and with intake of donations for their little bookstore). I also assist my tai chi instructor with new students at the senior center. Some of this will need to stop or slowdown as my spouse is very ill.
I make quilts for Project Linus. Thank you so much for Oh My Stars. I use it often for kids quilts. I also make baby quilts, mostly machine appliqued, for my church. They sell them at a yearly boutique and the money funds all kinds of missions. I get more from the experience than just the quilts.
I am "homeroom" daughter at my Mom's nursing home. Trying to do a special "event" for Holidays when some won't have a visitor, etc and to give something special. Nurses appreciate it too.
Good morning, Pat. I make quilts for wheelchair users. Most recently I began making quilts for a local charity called Angels Against Abuse. They have an adjacent arm called Pineapple Project that provides household items for needy people who are just finding housing and have nothing. I just love it.
I’ve been delivering Meals on Wheels since 1995. I began as a way to give back-because my grandma received meals she was able to stay in house much longer before she passed away. When the hubby retired he became my driver.😉
I volunteer at St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital on High Risk OB. I also make Christmas Stockings for the NICU…..usually about 75 each year. I also donate baby quilts.
I volunteer a few times a year to clean the coast of Washington state. I have been doing this for years. I also pick up litter on all my hikes. Not as fun as the coastal cleanups but still necessary.
Love Pat's Tulip Quilt! I love tulips in the garden, but once the deer invaded suburbia in Maryland, they destroyed my tulips. I planted 12 different varieties of daffodils that deer don't eat. I layer the daffodils in my garden and they bloom over 6 weeks. For a while, I was able to tuck some tulips in between the daffodils, but the deer found them too. My neighbors think I have specialized daffodils that bloom for a long period. After the daffodils bloom, my peonies start blooming--another plant deer don't like and I love peonies! For volunteering, I have been making mission quilts for Lutheran World Relief for 26 years at my church. Currently, my group makes about 200 quilts per year. Recently, I started making quilts for another group, Operation Kid Comfort through the Military WMCA, which gives the quilts to children of deployed military.
The pink tulip quilt is lovely the fabrics are great and that’s funny coming from me as I’m not a pink girl but that backing is stunning. I too like tulips but daffodils and crocus’s make my heart sing in spring I say fondly as we are getting ready to enter Winter in the Southern hemisphere it doesn’t snow where I am in Melbourne but it gets very cold down to early negatives, but rains a lot and can be cold those westerly winds are biting coming off the ocean.
I volunteer teaching children’s Sunday School at my church, with Project Linus, At the school library,and I’m a homework helper at a local children’s center, and I babysit my two years old grandson one day a week.
Hello! I volunteer at our Dream Center we have a community dinner every Wednesday for the local community free of charge and I help with the food prep and do most of the baking! I absolutely love it! It helps the community get a hand up, not a hand out!
Our church has a quilting ministry,and I volunteer and we meet twice a month. We go to the church classroom,bringing our sewing machines and make quilts for nursing homes at Christmas.
I volunteer to knit infant hats for local NICU hospital, and sew stuffed heart pillows to give to mastectomy patients upon hospital release. Also, drain tube holders ( little bags) if needed, using printed quilt cottons.
Your room is so neat and organized. I love your cabinets and baskets and you have it set up to where you can work so well and get so much accomplished. I learned so much from you. Thank you.
I volunteer for our church group which is making prayer shawls, they are knitted. Knitting is my other hobby I usually do at night when I am watching tv. My days are when I do my quilting.
Volunteering: Since 2015, I volunteer with a nonprofit, Sar Shalom Israel, that provides humanitarian aid to Israel. I make lap quilts for Holocaust survivors; baby quilts for a pro-life organization; and incubator covers. Two other ladies work with me on Tuesdays. They make medical dolls of muslin in which a surgeon can draw the surgery for a child.
Tulips are blooming this week, here in southern Maine. My daughter just gave me a bouquet with tulips for Mother's Day yesterday! 🌷I love your tulip quilts, Pat! ❤
Your Tulip quilt is so cute, and once again Cindy's quilting is awesome! I also get bored sewing the same thing over and over. Maybe that's why my Hello Birdie blocks are still waiting to be sewn together--you know the one you did a sew along back in June 2022. *sigh* The Halloween panel is really cute! Speaking of panels, my youngest daughter put Cyndi McChesney's Playful Panel Quilts book in my Mother's Day package yesterday! It's an awesome book! Thank you, Pat and Lynn, for providing more to the story of the Eagle quilt. They're both so pretty, but the original--WOW--love how the maker made the sides and bottom drop so that the corners wouldn't bunch up. I've never seen that done before. I can just imagine it on a bed.
Some tulips are still blooming here North of the capital of Albany, NY. We have a tulip festival in Albany where there’s a court of young ladies, and one is crowned queen. It was held this past Saturday and Sunday. Tulips were in full bloom.
I volunteer with a group called Friends of the Library in my town, it supports the events and appreciation of library staff. I also take a couple of docent shifts at the county's Museum of Natural Science, owner of one of the largest shell collections in the country, top 10 in Fromer' regional museum recommendations .
The purple and pale green is stunning. Matches your hoodie. Lovely. In NS a on rhe east coast of Canada daffodils have just started to bloom along with magnolia trees.
I received 623 quilt "tops" and I have volunteered the quilting, also the backing and batting for them. I do custom quilting for backing or batting to help out. The quilts have been going to the displaced fire families here in Oregon. I also have quilted for the Fallon Soldiers. And small quilts for people who are passing at a local hospital and the families keep them, the last 2 were so sad for me I stopped. I lost the first trip up the Mountain videos and pictures of the quilts phone crashed and SD card corrupted. So now I have been putting pictures and videos on TH-cam in case this phone crashes. Love your videos ❤
I volunteered to quilt comfort quilts for a group but, I really did it for my own good cuz I needed practice on my new (to me) longarm. I guess it was a win WIN cuz I did like 60 quilts for them and got a lot of practice! WOW you’ve done a ton! I’m sure it’s greatly appreciated 🎊
I make at least one quilt start to finish a year for QOValor. My guild makes baby quilts to donate. We also small veteran quilts for wheel chair bound folks. This year we are hosting a silent auction to raise funds for back pack ministries. Just a small of my activities. Lol
Hi Pat. Was wondering if you have or can publish some of your older patterns that were in books no longer available. Would be great to be able to purchase a single pattern either paper or .pdf of the quilts you show. Love the tulip quilt. Also want to say thank you for taking time to release daily videos. Since retiring last year, I wake up to you and a hot cup of coffee. It is such a great way to start my day. ❤
I’m the president of an Irish Catholic volunteer organization, Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians in Maryland. Tons of outreach projects related to women, children, veterans, food drives, diaper drives…
I love your green. I did mine in the red and pink. I wish the half triangle finishing was included with the monthly pattern. It is very tedious sewing them on all at once.
Ohmygosh! You were so enabling today!! I loved it!! The Halloween fabric, panel and pattern are just too cute👻👻! I really think I’d like that fabric in another quilt in the French vanilla (?) quilt from the FQS book for layer cakes! I love that pattern! We’ll see! Xo
I volunteer at church by organizing a group of people who like to go camping. We bring our RV and others tent or bring their campers. We travel to all different state parks. Of course we hike or fish but I bring my quilting projects and sew a bit. We meet the most interesting people!
Hi, Pat! I adore volunteering. Feeling helpful and productive is my jam, and more so since my son started university and we sold our company. I volunteer at my son's former school as a flute tutor to the beginning and marching band middle and high schoolers, as well as at local running races. (A runner myself, I'm not always up for racing, but enjoy helping to direct, facilitate and cheer.) They are all charity events, so it makes it even more worth my while. I am currently recovering from surgery, but when I can play flute again (it'll be a while yet before I can lift my arms properly), and with the encouragement of the clinic's social worker, I plan to volunteer at the cancer center, to bring a little music and a smile to people there. Being a liturgical flutist (my other volunteer gig, 14 years now) whose music director often makes last minute changes, I'm fairly good at playing requests on the fly. 😉 Tulips! I adore them, but do wish they lasted longer! They are the first colors around my post box in late winter/early spring (we are near C'ville, VA, in the foothills), fancy, lacy tulips in every candy color you can imagine: instant cheer every time I walk to the box. I can't remember where I had purchased that bag (thus, no clue which variety they are), but I planted them when we moved here 15 years ago, so they've had a while to mature and spread a bit. One of these days, I'll get around to planting more along the driveway. But it's 1/4 mile long, so...might take a while longer. LOL! As for having tulips in my quilts... I've been making quilts since I was 10 and my granny taught me to sew on her old Singer treadle, and yet I have yet to make a tulip quilt. It's definitely time to fix that! Thanks for the book link and another terrific installment! 💜
Tulips! My childhood favorite. But we don’t get a hard freeze here in the desert, so … no tulips. I tired freezing the bulbs and replanting, but didn’t work. Sigh!
::Download and links www.ilovetomakequilts.com/2024/05/did-i-get-any-of-the-pressed-flowers-done-.html
::My tulip pattern amzn.to/4bbXjDY
::FREE Halloween Mystery with the FQS!!
-Spooky & Sweet kit preorder shrsl.com/4ilyh
-Fabric I’m using + my stash shrsl.com/4ilyn
-Blossom I’m using shrsl.com/4ilyk
-XS thread kit and material used shrsl.com/4iatg
- Also I’m making this darling FREE kitty and pumpkin at the same time shrsl.com/4hxhh
I ordered the book on your link. Yippi!
I love to volunteer and tend to be a “yes” when asked. I volunteered 16 years ago to temporarily visit a shut in from our church. I still enjoy our weekly visits! Im also a downtown ambassador for city on the first Friday of each month. In addition I serve on the Think Pink committee for our 10 day Cherry Blossom festival. My final commitment is to be the education chair for Keep Macon Bibb Beautiful. Smaller volunteer opportunities include a lector for our church, a committee chair for the garden club, etc etc etc! I hope the next generation will embrace volunteerism the way we have!
Hello Pat , I volunteer locally in the UK for a national charity helping elderly people . I have been visiting housebound people once a fortnight just for a chat etc for about 20 years . The lady I visit now has just had her 97th birthday ! . Through this organisation during lockdown I started doing supermarket shopping for vulnerable people .. I am still shopping now once a week for another lady who has sight and mobility issues. I so enjoy your videos and chats .
I make charity quilts for our nicu, rape & domestic abuse, the connection homeless shelter & all i have made 6 QOV quilts. I always make pet beds for the humane society & vets. In between family quilts.
I'm 71 and don't volunteer now. But several years ago, around the time of my husband's death I volunteered in an energy assistance program helping with paperwork and also in a foodbank, also in the paperwork, signing people through, etc. It was amusing to me in the fact of my duties. I sat at a long table between two much older ladies and was told that was where I must stay. I found out later it was because the older ladies didn't get along at all. So, I sat in between them to keep the peace. Luckily, they both liked me. It was very rewarding work. Also, I lost my grandson in Hospice 5 years ago. He was 24. He had a quilt from me on his bed. Just a few days before losing him he asked me if I would like to make quilts for Hospice. Bless his heart. It kept my sanity getting busy on them. We lost my first Great Grand baby at the same time at just 5 weeks. I make quilts of comfort in their memory wherever I find a need.
My heart goes out to you in your losses. I just had to say this, as I felt like a heel just clicking a like on a thumbs up image. I did chuckle about you being the 'peace keeper'. Since you are a quiltmaker, it could also be 'piecekeeper'!
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I only did one quilt so far for charity. Through my Church it went to The Pregnancy Stress Center. I have been trying to get a sew group started t to meet one month.
Will say my prayers for your success. That would be a great thing to do!
Pat I am a volunteer with the Peninsula Angel Quilters (Newport News Virginia) We meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the local church where we rent a room and we make quilts for children. We just celebrated our 1st year. During this first year we gave away 250 quilts and hope to give away so many more this next year.
I volunteer in a weekly church quilt group here in northern Virginia. We have about 10-12 members and make about 130 quilts a year. We give our quilts to new mothers in need, new refugees setting up a home, abused children, foster children, and people affected by disasters. I love my fellow quilters in our group!
I volunteer with Project Linus here in Savannah. We do Sew days and Quilting days to make quilts for kids in need from our local community. Such a wonderful group.
I love your purple tulips. I made your Quilt for Ukraine, sent it to the Lutheran Collection Center and it was so heartwarming. I volunteer for the local Democrats which is important to me, met so many nice people.
My daughter is a dog foster mom and I help her with things like nail trims, photos, kennel set ups, laundry ( I also patch sheets and things needed) and lately bottle feeding and babysitting these poor orphaned babies until they can move forward into the destination of finding their forever homes.
It was so nice of you to share the sewing space from the different angle. The map fabric was awesome! Also interesting the difference in the Eagle quilts. I volunteered today at my friend's Special Education school for their Carnival day. God bless those amazing Teachers!!
Good morning! I had worked in a local hospital and made friends in different departments; when I retired, I volunteered in the infusion room of the Cancer Center. I baked and handed out cookies, got warm blankets, beverages and snacks for the patients, chatted with patients, and restocked the supplies for the nurses. It was wonderfully fulfilling! I had to leave when I became the caregiver for a family member stricken with cancer.
I volunteer for shared dreams, working with middle school kids and I do quilts for kids which I love giving out the quilts at the children hospital
Thanks for working with the children. I'm sure you are appreciated by all in the schools. My son is a teacher, so I see how weary they can become depending on the year. Blessings to you!
@@jostauffer6637 thank you! I love helping teachers as much as I can!
I am former 8th grade U.S. history teacher. I LOVE the eagle quilt, especially the unexpected polka dots! Thanks for showing it. As for volunteer work-- for several years I have made pillowcases and donated to a camp for foster kids. They get to keep the pillowcases . Another project is quilts for kids removed from the home by social services. Face masks for several organizations in need during the pandemic was keeping me very busy. Right now I "teaching " a history about once a month at an assisted living facility. That's great fun!
I volunteer at a Therapeutic Riding Stable here in SW Ontario. I tack up the horse prior to the lesson and then lead the horse while the rider with disability follows the instructions given by the instructor; I am really enjoying it. @PatSloan, I was inspired by your horse quilt and am in the process of making one to donate to the stable for their fundraiser this fall😍🐎🇨🇦
I volunteer at school one day a week in Kindergarten and First Grade. I listen to kids read, help with testing, help with art projects that need to be completed one on one or in a small group. Those teachers work miracles every day! I don't know how they get everything accomplished.
You are so right. My son is a 4th grade teacher going on (i think) 15 years now. I always tell him I have no idea how I birthed a teacher. I could never do it, but I know he is a very patient and kind teacher since I saw his patience and interest in children develop. God bless all teachers who truly love the kids!!
I volunteered for my two daughter’s preschool, kindergarten and first grade classes. I did an extra year in first grade because the teacher was my cousin. 4 years later I started my career as a paid preschool assistant for 14 years.
I volunteer at a Wildlife sanctuary mainly with their butterfly exhibit. Chrysalises are ordered and come via Fedex, and a group of us put them on boards for display, plus other maintenance tasks.
I am in the uk,volunteering in the Cornwall air ambulance shop and I also make quilts for Q4CL.thankyou for a wonderful group
I just love the dynamic of your purple tulip and polka dots quilt ❗️🌷🌷🌷
At first I was like no I don’t volunteer… but, as you talked I realized that actually I do… I tried to train my pup to be a hospital comfort dog but, she could pass the test required to go into children hospital… however she was eligible to go into some care centers for the elderly. Folks love LOVE Lola❤ Lola (my puppy 8 years old now) loves it too. so, it’s a win WIN situation 🎉
that is great!
Blessings to you and Lola. One of my dreads is thinking of getting too old to live in my home and have my kitties around me. I sure hope there is some furry friend to visit me once in a while if I live in that kind of situation!
My volunteering happens in cycles. It starts with my "balloon hand" disease. Someone asks for a volunteer and my hand goes up! Eventually I find myself over committed and in burn out mode (where I'm currently feeling) and I finish my term or project and sit on my hands to keep them from going up. At the moment I'm making quilts for donations and random gifts and chair for the church craft fair in the Fall.
Oh, my @patdeacon7818! You made me lol! I had never heard of balloon hand disease. Seems I, too, suffer from this malady. Glad to hear the cure is so simple. Thanks for the giggle😉
Hi all, enjoyed reading down through the whole list of volunteerism and the largest is definitely related to quilting. Mine is no different. Since I started quilting, making quilts has been my first love. All other crafts gradually went out the window. So in my guild, I volunteered by managing the quilt closet and setting up sew days for the charity we supported with quilts. (Women's Shelter in our city) Then later, it was through Project Linus I assisted the coordinator by doing the same thing. Maintaining the fabrics in support of our Bees, making kits, 'fixing" donated items that were not sized properly or other. Set up the room for the Bees. That kept me very busy. Now I am only making quilts for Quilts of Valor and Project Linus. Mobility issues have curtailed what I can do. But I can still push the pedal on sewing machines!!
I worked for 10 years at my local OXFAM charity shop that sold gifted clothes, books & household items, until it closed about 8 years ago. Now in my spare time I mostly knit fidget/twiddle muffs for my local hospital dementia unit - about 100 gifted so far. Love your Tulip 🌷quilt 💖
I volunteer with Meals on Wheels and I also volunteer at a school to help Kinders learn to read.
Hi! I volunteer at a local food. Mostly the volunteers are retired older folks. The food bank gives famalies a. boost in their food budget .
I'm a member of a bee that focuses on making NICU quilts. Most of us create from our own resources but we do maintain a donated stash for those who need it. We also cut and supply kits for our larger guild so members can make quilts to bring back to us.
I also donate time with a theatre company I belong to sewing and maintaining costumes.
My daughter and I were NICU 28 week preemies. Thank you for your work. My mom made all the quilts we used for our daughter at the hospital 24 years ago.
Every Wednesday I volunteer at a church’s clothes closet, with 7-9 of my retired neighbors/friends. We sort and restock clothing after the public comes in for free clothing Monday and Tuesday. After last week’s southwest Michigan tornadoes, the Closet had a request for clothing so it was ‘all hands in deck’. The Closet delivered bags of clothing for mobile home park that was hard hit. The Pastor was pleased to see the outpouring of help he saw, as he delivered them. Many semis from neighboring communities and southern states.
Volunteering🎉
In the late 90’s for 2 years I volunteered at a local quilt shop to teach a children’s sewing class! It was sew much fun. A local grade school councilor reached out and sent some 5 grade girls along with some funding from a school grant. We went on sewing field trips. I did a full meal deal lol we shopped for fabric, made aprons. We learned to cook spaghetti dinner, set a table & serve the meal wearing our aprons. We made invitations, each got to invite 2 guests . We did a show & tell of their sewn projects which included shorts, Pj’s, hats, pot holders, etc… all their aprons and then the served meal. All this was learned/done over 8-9 months of meeting once a week. For me the real reward was that the once out cast girls started making hat and hair crunchies for classmates and became excepted by their piers. And present day.. I’m on fb with a few of those students and they still sew 😀
Any tips for a tired, old granny whose twin girl grands are now getting interested in sewing? They are dreaming up things for me to make for them, but they also want to help. I have mostly been a 'lone sewer' and I would say my skills and thinking patterns are more geared to the adult learner. Help!? I love them and want to , but not sure I have the patience.
@@jostauffer6637 I guess age is a factor… 5 & 6, 7 year olds I take the thread out and let them sew paper… draw simple lines and let them practice steering… no thread they love it❣️ but, there’s a lot of simple things to sew like book markers, hair scrunchies, mug rugs… pj shorts, simple charm square quilt and seriously don’t except prefection! Let them be happy with what ever they do 🤷🏻♀️😀
Pat, I am so happy that you are taking time for yourself and setting a more realistic sewing schedule. I have a few half starts with your sew alongs and it was getting a bit discouraging. Now I am picking and choosing better. And have decided to combine projects that are UFOs with similar colorways to get them done! Enjoy watching your channel. Love your vintage stuff as well as the newer. I collect food for food pantry from our guild and deliver it. And make charity quilts from time to time.
I volunteer as our church’s library coordinator and I am also part of our church’s quilting ministry. We make quilts for new babies and run a quilt camp twice a year.
Hello Pat I make mostly quilts for charity organizations mainly QOV and Project Linus . It helps me because I’m disabled do to back surgery and quilting is my therapy
Accomplishing something , even a few at a time, is a very satisfying feeling.
Hi, I meet with a group called Friendship Quilts where we make quilts to be donated to different community groups.
My community service is once a month our church hosts a Pet Pantry, giving out supplemental dog and cat kibble, wet food, treats, and cat litter the help people keep their pets, but not enable them. Our church hosts two free meals a week for the community. Pet Pantry became an extension of that.
I volunteer at a local theater called The Acorn. It’s a non profit that has music, art, dance and community events. At Christmas my sister and I decorate the trees. Right now we are working on the float for our Flag Day parade. We are known as the Acorn Sisters and are always introduced that way😊
I have always volunteered. When my 3 girls were young I had 3 Girl Scout troops, and was site team chair for the meeting building and camp. Then I volunteered for two American Business Women Association chapters while I was working. Once I retired, I have volunteered a lot for my church as a lector, Eucharistic minister, the ladies society, and the pastoral council. Through all of my volunteering I have met so many people that I would never have known had I not volunteered.
Hi Pat at the moment (72) I coordinate 2 quilting/craft groups at our church the first group gew out of room so my darling daughter suggested I start another group, we have just come back from a small retreat, I'm also on church council and volunteer in our combined churches op shop, and had fostered 70 children and still support one in residential care. When we volunteer it takes our mind off our own trouble.
I have just moved to a new area so haven't gotten "plugged in" to new opportunities yet. But in my previous location I volunteered at my church in different areas. I also volunteered once a week at a local food cooperative. I have found volunteering is a part of my "make-up" and am looking forward to getting back into it.
I volunteer virtually with Quilts for Survivors (survivors of Residential Schools in Canada and day schools in the USA). I make quilts start to finish and mail it out to the next person on their waitlist.
I also volunteer in person for my kids’ schools on field trips, parent council, fundraising, and have volunteered in the fundraising and paperwork process of having 3 playgrounds built in my neighbourhoods (3 is enough, I’m retired from that🤣), and also various neighbourhood events and programs
My husband and I spent years volunteering for our local Fire Department/Ambulance Service. It’s now separated and paid services but at that time our city was small. The logistics that went into answering the call to those pagers with 4 small kids was amazing but so many people helped!
My volunteering is as an EMT for our local fire dept (when I am not working as an RN).
Both eagle quilts are beautiful but the original is especially spectacular! Those polka dots - wow! Thank you to Lynn for researching it.
Currently I am involved in an Angel Quilters group in Smithfield, VA, but have also in past helped a group of women make quilts for a Children's Hospital in North Carolina, and several years ago made quilts for prayers for Squares Ministry. There are so many opportunities out in communities.
Oh , happy day . I got to see your tulip quilt that I love so much . 😍Thanks for showing .
I volunteer with Quilts of Valor (I just stepped down from being our groups record keeper and scheduler. Still do Vet Treatment Court awards at 4 courts of 6 in the area), but also with the local library (helping shelve and with intake of donations for their little bookstore). I also assist my tai chi instructor with new students at the senior center. Some of this will need to stop or slowdown as my spouse is very ill.
I make quilts for Project Linus. Thank you so much for Oh My Stars. I use it often for kids quilts. I also make baby quilts, mostly machine appliqued, for my church. They sell them at a yearly boutique and the money funds all kinds of missions. I get more from the experience than just the quilts.
I am "homeroom" daughter at my Mom's nursing home. Trying to do a special "event" for Holidays when some won't have a visitor, etc and to give something special. Nurses appreciate it too.
That’s wonderful! ❤
Good morning, Pat. I make quilts for wheelchair users. Most recently I began making quilts for a local charity called Angels Against Abuse. They have an adjacent arm called Pineapple Project that provides household items for needy people who are just finding housing and have nothing. I just love it.
I’ve been delivering Meals on Wheels since 1995. I began as a way to give back-because my grandma received meals she was able to stay in house much longer before she passed away. When the hubby retired he became my driver.😉
I volunteer at St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital on High Risk OB. I also make Christmas Stockings for the NICU…..usually about 75 each year. I also donate baby quilts.
I volunteer a few times a year to clean the coast of Washington state. I have been doing this for years. I also pick up litter on all my hikes. Not as fun as the coastal cleanups but still necessary.
Love Pat's Tulip Quilt! I love tulips in the garden, but once the deer invaded suburbia in Maryland, they destroyed my tulips. I planted 12 different varieties of daffodils that deer don't eat. I layer the daffodils in my garden and they bloom over 6 weeks. For a while, I was able to tuck some tulips in between the daffodils, but the deer found them too. My neighbors think I have specialized daffodils that bloom for a long period. After the daffodils bloom, my peonies start blooming--another plant deer don't like and I love peonies! For volunteering, I have been making mission quilts for Lutheran World Relief for 26 years at my church. Currently, my group makes about 200 quilts per year. Recently, I started making quilts for another group, Operation Kid Comfort through the Military WMCA, which gives the quilts to children of deployed military.
Ty for feeding the deer 🦌 😊❤
Hi, Pat, I volunteer at a bookstore run by Friends of the Library which supports our local library.
The pink tulip quilt is lovely the fabrics are great and that’s funny coming from me as I’m not a pink girl but that backing is stunning. I too like tulips but daffodils and crocus’s make my heart sing in spring I say fondly as we are getting ready to enter Winter in the Southern hemisphere it doesn’t snow where I am in Melbourne but it gets very cold down to early negatives, but rains a lot and can be cold those westerly winds are biting coming off the ocean.
I also make quilts prayer that are donated to a program at our church, for people in need.
Thank you to Lynn for doing the research! Nice to see the original!
I volunteer teaching children’s Sunday School at my church, with Project Linus, At the school library,and I’m a homework helper at a local children’s center, and I babysit my two years old grandson one day a week.
Hello! I volunteer at our Dream Center we have a community dinner every Wednesday for the local community free of charge and I help with the food prep and do most of the baking! I absolutely love it! It helps the community get a hand up, not a hand out!
Such a worthy volunteer job! Blessings to you!
Morning Pat, good for you to do the things that bring you joy, that’s exactly how it should be. Thanks for sharing all that you do. 👍❤️🙂
I have a handful of tulips that bloom every spring. I have always wanted to make a tulips 🌷 quilt, so I just ordered a copy of your book 😊
Our church has a quilting ministry,and I volunteer and we meet twice a month. We go to the church classroom,bringing our sewing machines and make quilts for nursing homes at Christmas.
I volunteer to knit infant hats for local NICU hospital, and sew stuffed heart pillows to give to mastectomy patients upon hospital release. Also, drain tube holders ( little bags) if needed, using printed quilt cottons.
Your room is so neat and organized. I love your cabinets and baskets and you have it set up to where you can work so well and get so much accomplished. I learned so much from you. Thank you.
I am in Idaho and my tulips have been blooming for awhile and are just about done.
Hello friends! I volunteer at church but also through CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate). With CASA, one is appointed to a child in foster care.
I volunteer for our church group which is making prayer shawls, they are knitted. Knitting is my other hobby I usually do at night when I am watching tv. My days are when I do my quilting.
Knitting is my first love ❤️
Volunteering: Since 2015, I volunteer with a nonprofit, Sar Shalom Israel, that provides humanitarian aid to Israel. I make lap quilts for Holocaust survivors; baby quilts for a pro-life organization; and incubator covers. Two other ladies work with me on Tuesdays. They make medical dolls of muslin in which a surgeon can draw the surgery for a child.
Love your tulip quilt! You get quite a lot done in your sewing space! I'd like to get a design wall in the future.
Here in Northern Alberta, the tulips are just starting to come up.
Tulips are blooming this week, here in southern Maine. My daughter just gave me a bouquet with tulips for Mother's Day yesterday! 🌷I love your tulip quilts, Pat! ❤
Your Tulip quilt is so cute, and once again Cindy's quilting is awesome! I also get bored sewing the same thing over and over. Maybe that's why my Hello Birdie blocks are still waiting to be sewn together--you know the one you did a sew along back in June 2022. *sigh* The Halloween panel is really cute! Speaking of panels, my youngest daughter put Cyndi McChesney's Playful Panel Quilts book in my Mother's Day package yesterday! It's an awesome book!
Thank you, Pat and Lynn, for providing more to the story of the Eagle quilt. They're both so pretty, but the original--WOW--love how the maker made the sides and bottom drop so that the corners wouldn't bunch up. I've never seen that done before. I can just imagine it on a bed.
I was a volunteer for 10 years with a unicycle team.
Some tulips are still blooming here North of the capital of Albany, NY. We have a tulip festival in Albany where there’s a court of young ladies, and one is crowned queen. It was held this past Saturday and Sunday. Tulips were in full bloom.
I volunteer with a group called Friends of the Library in my town, it supports the events and appreciation of library staff. I also take a couple of docent shifts at the county's Museum of Natural Science, owner of one of the largest shell collections in the country, top 10 in Fromer' regional museum recommendations .
The purple and pale green is stunning. Matches your hoodie. Lovely. In NS a on rhe east coast of Canada daffodils have just started to bloom along with magnolia trees.
I love your sewing room Pat! It’s much bigger than mine… but it works for me… for now 😉 Have a fabulous week.
I received 623 quilt "tops" and I have volunteered the quilting, also the backing and batting for them. I do custom quilting for backing or batting to help out. The quilts have been going to the displaced fire families here in Oregon. I also have quilted for the Fallon Soldiers. And small quilts for people who are passing at a local hospital and the families keep them, the last 2 were so sad for me I stopped. I lost the first trip up the Mountain videos and pictures of the quilts phone crashed and SD card corrupted. So now I have been putting pictures and videos on TH-cam in case this phone crashes. Love your videos ❤
I volunteered to quilt comfort quilts for a group but, I really did it for my own good cuz I needed practice on my new (to me) longarm. I guess it was a win WIN cuz I did like 60 quilts for them and got a lot of practice! WOW you’ve done a ton! I’m sure it’s greatly appreciated 🎊
@cathinuferrous2336 that's the best way to get practice. Different patterns I wanted to learn I have been doing lol
I make at least one quilt start to finish a year for QOValor. My guild makes baby quilts to donate. We also small veteran quilts for wheel chair bound folks. This year we are hosting a silent auction to raise funds for back pack ministries. Just a small of my activities. Lol
I volunteer to help set up for weekly Bible study group, and at church when there is a funeral I volunteer to help in guest services.
This past weekend was the Tulip Fest in Albany, NY
Hi Pat. Was wondering if you have or can publish some of your older patterns that were in books no longer available. Would be great to be able to purchase a single pattern either paper or .pdf of the quilts you show. Love the tulip quilt. Also want to say thank you for taking time to release daily videos. Since retiring last year, I wake up to you and a hot cup of coffee. It is such a great way to start my day. ❤
That tulip quilt is in her Celebrate the Seasons book which I have in Kindle format. I think it’s still available on Amazon. Great book! 😊
thank you for joining me! I no plans to republish book patterns. You can still buy the book at my Amazon links.
I volunteer for Project Linus - love connecting with folks 1x a month. Mostly I longarm for the ladies who need help finishing their flimsies.
In Northern British Columbia the tulips are in season.
I volunteer, but it has nothing to do with quilts. I have been volunteering at a horse rescue for many, many years. They are such amazing animals.
Give one, or two or three a carrot for me. I love the idea, but I would be terrified of their size. Blessings to you!
I’m the president of an Irish Catholic volunteer organization, Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians in Maryland. Tons of outreach projects related to women, children, veterans, food drives, diaper drives…
I love your green. I did mine in the red and pink. I wish the half triangle finishing was included with the monthly pattern. It is very tedious sewing them on all at once.
Love the new Halloween material in all shades
Ohmygosh! You were so enabling today!! I loved it!! The Halloween fabric, panel and pattern are just too cute👻👻! I really think I’d like that fabric in another quilt in the French vanilla (?) quilt from the FQS book for layer cakes! I love that pattern! We’ll see! Xo
You are so welcome!
I volunteer making dresses for Dress a Girl organization. We meet once a week. I also make quilts for Hospice and baby quilts for charity .
I volunteer at church by organizing a group of people who like to go camping. We bring our RV and others tent or bring their campers. We travel to all different state parks. Of course we hike or fish but I bring my quilting projects and sew a bit. We meet the most interesting people!
Hi, Pat! I adore volunteering. Feeling helpful and productive is my jam, and more so since my son started university and we sold our company. I volunteer at my son's former school as a flute tutor to the beginning and marching band middle and high schoolers, as well as at local running races. (A runner myself, I'm not always up for racing, but enjoy helping to direct, facilitate and cheer.) They are all charity events, so it makes it even more worth my while. I am currently recovering from surgery, but when I can play flute again (it'll be a while yet before I can lift my arms properly), and with the encouragement of the clinic's social worker, I plan to volunteer at the cancer center, to bring a little music and a smile to people there. Being a liturgical flutist (my other volunteer gig, 14 years now) whose music director often makes last minute changes, I'm fairly good at playing requests on the fly. 😉
Tulips! I adore them, but do wish they lasted longer! They are the first colors around my post box in late winter/early spring (we are near C'ville, VA, in the foothills), fancy, lacy tulips in every candy color you can imagine: instant cheer every time I walk to the box. I can't remember where I had purchased that bag (thus, no clue which variety they are), but I planted them when we moved here 15 years ago, so they've had a while to mature and spread a bit. One of these days, I'll get around to planting more along the driveway. But it's 1/4 mile long, so...might take a while longer. LOL!
As for having tulips in my quilts... I've been making quilts since I was 10 and my granny taught me to sew on her old Singer treadle, and yet I have yet to make a tulip quilt. It's definitely time to fix that! Thanks for the book link and another terrific installment! 💜
sending you good vibes you can get back to your flute soon! All great things you so
@@PatSloan 🤗💜 Thank you!
My husband and I volunteer at our church’s food pantry, once a week.
I made the free Riley Blake kitty and pumpkin last year. It is adorable! One of my favorite Halloween Wall Hangings.
Fun video today, lots of exciting updates. The original Eagle quilt Is fabulous. Cute Halloween all the way. 👻
I love your Pressed Flowers quilt! Wish I had done it!
i hope you do!
Very pretty tulip..
My tulips in ND are lookin’ good now mid May.
Mother's Day, I spent the day at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to see the tulips. It was stunning! Now I need to plant some at home!
Good morning Pat thanks for sharing 😊
Tulips! My childhood favorite. But we don’t get a hard freeze here in the desert, so … no tulips. I tired freezing the bulbs and replanting, but didn’t work. Sigh!