Community Service Quilting
Every year, Ocean Waves members make quilts as a community service project.
The quilts are made at two guild meetings and members are asked to bring sewing
tools and donate fabric. Quilt Patterns are chosen to accommodate beginning
quilters, making this a modern day quilting bee and an excellent learning
experience.
Recent recipients have included Safe Space - a facility for abused women and their
children, Sunrise Community – an adult care nursing home and Florida Baptist
Children’s Home – a shelter for children and Bay Point Schools.
Within our guild a small group of members a/k/a “We Care Quilters/Coral Gables
Congregational Church Quilters" have taken charge of making quilts for the Quilts
of Valor Foundation and the Bay Point School Charity. Over the years these ladies
have donated over 350 quilts to the school and more than 15 quilts to the “Quilts
of Valor Foundation”.
THE OCEAN WAVES
MEMORIAL CHALLENGE
Each year, a special challenge is held, where members create wall hangings
dictated by certain guidelines thereby achieving growth as quilt makers. Al
members are encouraged to participate in this challenge.
Rules:
Any Ocean Waves member is eligible and the quilt must be the work of one
person.
Nature - Plants, Animals (Humans), Minerals, the range of possibilities is wide
open. Have Fun. Be Creative.
Size - No smaller than 18" x 18" (72" circumference) and no larger than
40" x 40" (160” circumference). It does not have to be a square. Nature
comes in all kinds of shapes.
It must be a quilt, a front, batting and back. It must be machine or hand
quilted
or may be tied if not entered for judging. It must have a sleeve attached for
hanging.
Embellishments may be used - Painting, Stamping, Embroidery, Buttons, Beads,
Fancy.
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