Community Service November Update

Chair: Marilyn White

                                                   

FEBRUARY, 2025 SIT AND SEW SNEAK PREVIEW:   

February 3, 2025 in place of our regular monthly meeting.

Conley’s Church, 9:30am-1:30pm

 

Activities offered:

 

1. Make a duffle bag for Duffle Bags and More  helping kids in foster care. Sewers needed. Mary Shepherd and some DB&M helpers will assist us.  All fabric provided. You may want to bring a denim sewing machine needle.

2. Make Placemats for those who receive in home meals.  We”ll  be using all size fabric strips and blocks. 12” x 18” placemats. Sewers, cutters, pressers needed. Batting and scrap strips available or bring your own scrap blocks, scrap batting, unwanted strips or Jelly Rolls, or scrap fabric size 14”x  20” or fat quarters for backing.                                                                                                                                                                         Sign up at the December or January meetings or email Marilyn White (mbwhite106@gmail.com) and indicate your choice of duffle bag or placemats.

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Learn More About Each Group...​​​

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Milford Advocacy for the Homeless: I want to thank those who donated quilts for the MAH.  I’m making one last trip with donations of quilts for the shelters just before Thanksgiving.  Your generosity is so great.  Pat DeVoll

 

**TEDDY BEARS :  The Guild has received a generous monetary donation for the Teddy Bears project’s support of the Friends of the Fallen program at Dover Air Force Base. Shawn Dunham made this donation in honor of her second cousin, Lynn Andrews, who passed away this year. Lynn had expressed a real fondness for the Teddy Bear Project, having been one of its founding members!  The Guild is very appreciative and sincerely thanks Shawn for her touching donation which will help continue its support of this program in Dover.  

 

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About us: This group is a 501C3 organization that creates duffle bags and toiletry bags for children in foster care. It is funded from grants, donations, and fundraising events. Ocean Waves will be helping to promote the program through publicity and participation, coordinated by Mary Shepherd.  The project will be self-sustaining on our budget line.  Mary’s group meets once a month at the Village of Five Points Community Center to sew the bags. All supplies, including sewing machines and sergers, are provided.  We will highlight Duffle Bags and More at our October guild meeting. In addition, DB&M will participate in our February, 2025 Sit and Sew! Duffle Bags and More will be added to our Community Service webpage.  For more details, contact Mary Shepherd, mtshepherd@mindspring.com.

 

Activities: So far in 2024, we have given 100 duffle bag and toiletry bag sets to Delaware Department of Family Services. We also gave 67 bags to Milford Advocacy for the Homeless. We give and fill a dozen toiletry bags to I Support the Girls each month.                                                                                                                         

Our work parties are on the third Monday of most months, from 9-12 at the Villages of Five Points Community Center in Lewes. We'd love to see new volunteers on September 16th or October 21st.

 

GUILD CONTACT: Mary Shepherd

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PATRIOTIC QUILTS 

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About us:

This service project group organizes and leads productions of patriotic themed quilts to be donated to the Quilts of Valor Foundation. (qovf.org)  “The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing QOV.” The procedures for making these quilts are specific. Check the newsletter and announcements at guild meetings for scheduled Sew-Ins and drop-offs.

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** Patriotic Quilts is looking for volunteers to quilt one or more quilts for Quilts of Valor.  If you can help, please contact Kathy Varga. kvarga07866@gmail.com.

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Activities:

Yearly total: 21 quilts for Quilts of Valor. Kathy Varga and Rita McConnell

 

Donations needed: Fabric - Red, white, blue solids or tone-on-tone fabrics are greatly appreciated - fat quarters, strips 8” or longer, yardage

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GUILD CONTACT: Rita McConnell

 

 

HEART PILLOWS

 

About us:

Pillows are given to patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer.  Kits, assembled and ready to be sewn, are available at the Ocean Waves Quilt Guild monthly meetings.

The pillows are donated to the following organizations: Cancer Support Community of Delaware

Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition

Beebe Healthcare - Tunnel Cancer Center

Beebe Rehab

Dr. Spellman's office

Nanticoke Memorial Hospital - Allen Cancer Center
 

Activities:

We delivered 12 heart pillows to the Cancer Support Group in October.

Carol Fisher 

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Donations needed: No fabric needed for now.

GUILD CONTACT: Carol Fisher

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TINY TOTS - Baby Items

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About us:

Tiny Tots was started in February, 2010 with 12 ladies from St. Ann’s Bazaar Workshop.  Today it has 50 members and is still growing.  Tiny Tots makes quilts, hats, blanket and sweater sets, teddy bears, nursing covers, and exercise mats for the Rosa Health Center in Georgetown, DE.  To date, over 4,000 quilts, 500 blanket and sweater sets, 2,000 teddy bears, and 200 exercise mats have been made.

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The Rosa Health Center takes care of infants thru adults. The Center is absolutely free to whoever cannot afford medical help. Dr. Rama Peri runs the Center. 

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Tiny Tots also donates items to St. Vincent de Paul.

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Tiny Tots meets at St. Ann’s Church, Delaney Hall, in Bethany Beach on the 4th Tuesday of each month (except December, July, and August) from 9AM to 1 PM.  It is supported by St. Ann’s Parish, Bethany Beach, DE, and Ocean Waves Quilt Guild.

 

All of the fabric and yarn used to make these items is donated.

 

Activities:

Made the following  delivery to St. Vincent de Paul: 5 twin quilts,  30 small and 16 medium  sized crocheted afghans,  44 adult and 38 children’s hats, scarves , and gloves. Thank you all for your hard work in making this possible. Mary Martinez

Also, anyone interested in men’s neckties ,  contact Mary.

made the following  delivery to St. Vincent de Paul: 5 twin quilts,  30 small and 16 medium  sized crocheted afghans,  44 adult and 38 children’s hats, scarves , and gloves. Thank you all for your hard work in making this possible. Mary Martinez

Also, anyone interested in men’s neckties ,  contact Mary.

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Donations needed: We are in need of worsted weight yarn and fiberfill stuffing.  Fabric - Yarn, Baby Flannel and fleece, Adult fabrics 

                      

GUILD CONTACT: Mary Martinez