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Community Outreach  

 

This is the perfect time in the year to highlight the incredible impact of all the hard-working quilt sisters and brothers who have done so much through community outreach to make Thurston County a better place to live. Community outreach has grown by leaps and bounds even during this difficult time due to the efforts of all of you.  This is the perfect time to recognize those efforts and to thank those who have given so much to others in need.  These efforts have made this community a better place.

Community outreach has supplied Christmas Stockings, Easter Bags, Summer Lunch Bags, Baby Quilts, Burp Cloths, Grocery Bags, and Receiving Blankets for the Thurston County Food Bank. Additionally, we have supplied quilts for families devastated by fire loss, placemats for our seniors through meals on wheels, baby items for five different baby banks, quilts for foster children, quilts for seniors at Roo Lan, and we cannot forget the 6000 cloth masks made for our first responders at the beginning of the pandemic.

Community Outreach developed a donation process which has developed a reputation as an essential distribution center for donations from the estates, quilters who can no longer sew, and those that are just trying to reduce their stash.  Over the last several years we have accepted many donations but primarily over 20,000 yards of fabric. Community outreach kept about 40% of those fabric donations with remainder used to raise funds through Fabric Palozza and gifted to other sister guilds and sew groups for their needs and servicing the community.

Anyone wanting to make donations, please email:  WSQG@washingtonstarsquiltguild.com

This sounds like a lot of work, but there are a lot of wonderful and generous quilters who have sewed at home, sewed in small B’s, and sewed at the Gull Harbor Lutheran Church.  Many, many thanks go out to the ladies who have helped in making our Guild proud and Outreach such a success.  All this was done despite the impacts of Covid 19.  We thank everybody (too numerous to list and fear of missing someone) who has contributed time, energy, and love to make Community Outreach a wonderful part of the Guild.

As we go forward to the new year this is a great opportunity for each of you to think about joining the community outreach’s efforts.

 
  Volunteer Award- Congratulations!!    
  The Washington Stars Quilt Guild was honored by the Washington State Grange for being the Volunteer Group of the Year 2022. It's a wonderful award that recognizes our efforts, even through the pandemic, to spread warmth and happiness to others. Thank you!   
       
 Ways to Participate

CLICK HERE
      Have a DONATION that you
would like to make
 to Washington Stars Quilt Guild?

 CLICK HERE
Currently 
MAGGIE'S BAGGIES 
is NOT accepting scraps at this time.  
CLICK HERE to discover the 
Who, What, Where, and Why
Recycling fiber scraps has been
suspended by the recycling company.
Hopefully a new recycler can be found.
In 2019, WSQG donated 377 cloth grocery bags to the Thurston county Food Bank. 
2020 - 268+ bags were donated
Patterns for
GROCERY BAGS

CLICK HERE 
Christmas Stockings
Click Here

Reversible Drawstring Bag Pattern 
Click Here
Links to Free patterns
Coming soon!