When we suspended our regular meetings and community sewing days, in March as the pandemic was declared, we made no particular plans for our community quilting program beyond everyone just doing what worked for them at home, until we could meet again. We’d then assesss how the community quilt collection was going without access to the community fabric stash, basting tables (and extra hands), and group collaboration at community sewing days.
When we were able to resume our sewing days in July, we found that the collection was just about on track with recent years, we had some basting to catch up on, and members had found it really worthwhile to continue making community quilts, often from their own stashes, during quarantine.
At the close of the year we have made at least 60 quilts (photographed here, but we might have missed a few!), and most of have already been distributed to older people in residential care and children in foster care.
It’s not all about the numbers of quilts though, and we are very pleased to be back sewing together at our monthly sewing days. We have already seen at least a dozen new quilts started, that will be finished during 2021, and there are no doubt many more we don’t know about yet.
Our thanks to everyone who has contributed during a time when we might have found it difficult to maintain the program.
