Massey Cancer Center

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Updated Quilting Numbers

As of January 4, 2012 we’ve made:

• 1062 quilts
• 1705 wheelchair bags
• 2952 misc. items

We also take donations in support of our cause

• 100% cotton quilting fabrics
• 108″ wide backing fabrics
• cotton batting
• Home Dec weight fabric
• Thread
• Sewing machines
• Rotary rulers

Help us help others!

New Year

We finished the year with some very good numbers for donated items:  Quilts 1062, wheelchair bags 1700, pillowcases and other items 2952.    Happy faces making and happy faces receiving.   During the year our numbers have ranged from 12 to 27 sewing on Thursdays and 5 to 10 sewing on the third Sunday afternoon sessions.   The plans for 2012:   have fun, teach some new methods, spend some time going over old rules for strip piecing and sewing on borders to keep everything even for the longarmer

A Gift for Kara

A Busy Month

May has been a busy month.  May 1 was the Quiltathon at a local quilt shop to raise funds for VCU Massey Cancer Center.  The Stitchers for a Cause Team took first place for raising funds in the machine quilting category!

Our team with one of the quilts during the Quiltathon

Our latest numbers for items donated to date are:

Quilts – 449

Walker/Wheelchair Bags – 1181

Other Items – 817

Quiltathon for Massey Cancer Center

We are participating in a Quiltathon to raise funds for Massey Cancer Center.  Our team is full, but you can make a donation towards the effort.

Update:  Our team raised in excess of $1,800 for VCU Massey Cancer Center and won for machine quilting category!!!!

Hats for kids

Knit hats were made by the stitchers for first graders at Bensley Elementary.

More quilts

Jim delivered 20 more quilts to the Guardian ad Litem program.

You can read about it here:  http://www.galdistrict22.org/

Jim delivering quilts to Guardian ad Litem program

Pillowcases with the teens

On Sunday, January 17th some of our teens joined us to help make pillowcases for several charity groups.  The total for that day was 136 pillowcases!!!  Good work, teens!!!!

One smile says it all

Group donates quilts to children in DSS custody
By Bethany Fuller | Statesville R&L

The group recently received a donation from a retired police officer from Virginia and his friends at Glen Allen Church of Christ.
Jim Otto, Sandy Hook, Va., resident, and his friends with Stitches for a Cause presented the Guardian Ad Litem office with 20 new quilts for children in the program, with the promise of more to come as needed.
“All these quilts were made with a lot of love,” Otto said. “They can wrap themselves in it.”
Guardian Ad Litem District Administrator Donna Carver said sometimes the children come into foster care with little more than the clothes on their backs.
The quilts come in all shapes and sizes and will have the children’s names embroidered on them, Carver said. This way, they will have something cheerful to take with them.
The average case in Iredell County lasts 315 days, and the average time for a child to get adopted is 695 days, Carver said.
Some children have been in the system for six or seven years, she said.
Otto said his 40 years in law enforcement showed him the difference even a small gesture can make in children’s lives when they are put in a hard situation.
“There is a lot of pain out there, especially this time of the year,” he said. “You can put a smile on their faces and that is what we try to do.”
The program is something the group has wanted to do for some time, but didn’t know how to get it started, Carver said.
“When you go in to a home and visit a child, it is like they have nothing,” she said. “It hurts your heart.”
Otto, whose daughter Vicki Culbreth is volunteer with the program, said the group will make as many quilts as necessary.
The Guardian Ad Litem volunteers will try to match the blankets with the child’s personality, Carver said.
In addition to quilts, Stitches for a Cause makes wheelchair and walker bags and other Christmas items to donate to nursing homes and churches.