Year-round activities
Sit-n-Stitch
Since Quilters Unlimited now has over 200 members, these groups provide an opportunity for quilters to become better acquainted and to share knowledge and skills in an informal setting.
See
linked page for listing. Members can contact our Sit-n-Stitch coordinator
for more information on how to join one. Sit-n-Stitch
groups meet on various days of the week and with different frequency. Most meet in a member's home and work on
individual projects, while some meet at a specific location and work on a service
project, some of which are discussed further below in the Past
Philanthropic Activities section.
Block of the Month
Each meeting our membership is invited to create a pre-selected block for that month.
If they bring the block to the meeting, they qualify for a drawing to win all the blocks created by other members in the same pieced pattern. There have been many wonderful quilts made by winners.
The 2012 blocks are Seminole-themed, and are used with
permission from "The Quilter Community" on-line
magazine. See the following PDF
file and also go to the following link
for the specific patterns details posted at the magazine.
Baby Quilts
We continue to contribute approximately 200
baby quilts per year to the Newborn Intensive Care unit at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. These 17 "x 25" quilts fit the small incubators and are
used for several purposes, including being given to the families when the babies are ready to go
home, and for bereavement.
Sew For Hope
Some of our members make
quilts for the children residing at the Tallahassee
Coalition for the Homeless, using fabrics brought to the
Guild Meetings by the Sew
For Hope.
Periodic Activities
Challenge Quilts
Each year, the Guild offers a challenge whereby
Guild-Members can formally demonstrate their creativity, technical accuracy, and ability to get across the
message of the theme in accordance with certain rules. See
linked page
for the 2012 Challenge rules..
Opportunity Quilt
Each year,
the Guild creates a quilt that will be raffled off to
raise money to support Guild activities. See linked
page for more information and pictures.
Trips
Show Trips and Shop Hops offer opportunities to expand our quilting horizons, to form and cement friendships, and to increase our fabric stash. QU
has two buses going to the Quiltfest in Jacksonville, Florida,
in September. See Shows page
for more information.
Workshops
The Guild tries to
host workshops twice a year that are taught by well-known
Quilting instructors. Information on planned workshops is available via the
Shows &
Workshops page.
Quilts of Valor
Many of the members make quilts for wounded soldiers
through the Quilts of Valor
program. These are typically shown to the whole Guild in
July, before sending off to the QOV program.
Previous Philanthropic
Activities
QU members respond to philanthropic community needs in many ways. Every day individual members quietly stitch love and compassion into quilts that a recipient will embrace with thanks and hope.
More information is provided on some of these projects -- see
links (bold-italics) below.
- A "Domestic Violence Awareness Quilt"
has been made for the Department of Corrections (DOC) by one of our Sit-n-Stitch groups. See linked
page for pictures.
- One of our Sit-n-Stitch groups works on projects for
Ronald McDonald
House, while another makes quilts for Big Bend Hospice.
- We have provided quilts to Capital Area Healthy Start
Coalition. These are signature quilts made for grieving families that have lost an infant, or had a pregnancy loss, and the
families sign squares in their honor. The quilts are on display in various segments of the community, and at the Healthy Start Coalition office, and at their annual "Walk to Remember".
- We have given to the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital emergency room tote bags for victims of violence.
- Some of our members made "Kitty
Quilts" for the cat cages at the Animal Shelter.
