| Ways to Participate in Washington Stars Quilt Guild's Community Outreach |
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| Becoming a guild member will give you other opportunities to sew charitably, such as: other scheduled sewing days, access to kits to sew at home, friendly "bees" where smaller groups get together for dedicated sewing, and the availability of quality fabric and batting to use for finished items for donation. Click Here to become a member |
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The process we use for outreach projects has been fine-tuned for ease of access and to accommodate the energy level and available time for any quilter. This fabric may pass through many hands and several processes to emerge as finished items that are dispersed through a large number of local agencies. Our list of recipients include at-risk youth, sheltered adults, preemies, survivors of trauma, our local food bank, and feeding programs for house-bound elders and the disabled. |
| Our active sewing day may see a crew cutting fabric into components to make quilt kits. Another group will be measuring and cutting batting or backers, and another joining binding strips to place in the kits. Members may be sewing blocks together to be bagged with batting and a backer for quilting. A quilt kit will contain quilt instructions, accurately cut components, batting, and a backer. The kits are signed out at meetings and sew days. The member can then decide if they will sew only the top, assemble the top and quilt it, and/or bind it. At any step they can opt to return the kit so another person can do the next steps. This collaborative process has worked well, resulting in a steady stream of hand-crafted fabric items donated every month |  |
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