Salt Lake County Chapter Project Linus

 September 5, 2022

Hello Blanketeers,

 

If you want to attend a fun social with other women – come to blanket making days.  You don’t have to bring any fabric or equipment.  

 

Looking forward to blanket making days in September.  We are scheduled to meet together at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church on Monday September 12^th from 10:00 to 1:00 pm.   

 

Also, Jackie Cohen has scheduled her Riverton Group to meet at Mtn Vista Methodist Church on September 21^st from 1:00 to 3:00.  Everyone is invited.  

 

There are lots of ways to become involved in our non-profit to provide security blankets for children in crisis.  If you prefer not to make blankets but want to help – consider:

          Labeling on your sewing machine

         Assisting with packaging

         Cutting fabric to prepare for blanket makers

         Punching holes around fleece fabric for crochet work

         Delivering to some sites

         Hemstitching flannel for crochet

         Long arm quilting services

         Donating child-friendly fabric – fleece, flannel, cotton 

Fund raising – is always welcome.  

 

                  Quilting – then and now

 

    Modern day hand-made quilt design has become an art form in the era of reliance on technology.  Yes, you can buy a quilt from Walmart – but you won’t have the hands of your grandmother or mother or aunt putting love and art into your quilt- designed specifically for you. 

 

     In the days of settlement of the Western U S, quilts were made from anything women could get their hands on. Potato sacks, flower sacks, worn out clothing, old curtains, -you name it.  

   Of course, those quilts were used to keep warm, but they also served as room dividers, window covers, wagon cushions, and doors.  Quilts were done in groups – quilting bees, or alone, like this one. 

     This is a picture of a quilt made in 1913 by Mollie Hale of Sumpter Valley Oregon.  The machine she sewed with was a modern piece of equipment in those days.  

  

     We give our thanks to the several quilters and quilting groups who deliver beautiful quilts to our chapter of PL every month.  (Mount Vista Church Quilters, Square Corner Quilters, and Sweet Charity Sisters) We also want to thank all  the individual people every month who donate their hand-made quilts to PL for us to give to children.

 

Blessings,  Millie