Roseville Quilters Guild, PO Box 513, Roseville CA 95678
PILLOWCASES
We make pillowcases for local organizations that request them; in fact, we’re part of the “Million Pillowcase Challenge.” The pillowcases we make are unbelievably easy.
COMMUNITY PANTRY
Each month we ask members to bring specific types of food, which is taken to the food bank in Roseville after each meeting. This is the list with suggestions for 2011-12:
- July: Canned tuna or canned meat
- August: Cereals, hot or cold
- September: Spagetti, Pasta, or Spagetti Sauce
- October: Canned Vegetables or Pork and Beans
- November: Hearty Soups
- December: Dollars
- January: Rice, any kind (plain or flavored mixes)
- February: Canned Chili or any kind of Canned Meat, or Dried Beans
- March: Macaroni and Cheese
- April: Pancake Mixes (such as Bisquick) or Syrup
- May: Canned Fruit
- June: Peanut Butter and Jelly
Our primary emphasis is on quilts. Our community service chairpersons are creative in managing donated fabric, making kits, coordinating quilting, and finding appropriate places for donations. In cooperation with the First Methodist church (on Chruch Street in Roseville), we sponsor community service workshop days. We hold these in any month where there is a fifth Wednesday.
In 2010-2011 the guild made 336 community service quilts. In addition, 370 pillow cases were made for Robertson Adult Care and given at Christmas time with pillows. We also purchased food for The Salvation Army and supplied funds for a Christmas party at the Placer County Receiving Home. (The year before, we made 327 quilts!)
Some of the places our quilts have been donated include:
- Placer County Receiving Home
- Red Cross
- Veterans & Other active Service Persons
- Local Dialysis Center
- Sutter Hospice
- U C Davis Hospital Pediatrics
- Acres of Home Women & Children's Center
- Kaiser Hospital Roseville Pediatrics & Preemies
- Volunteers of America Elder Abuse Home
- Ronald McDonald House
- Sutter Senior Recreation & Respite
- Mercy San Juan Hospital-Comfort Care
Every month in which there is a 5th Wednesday, we have a Community Service work day, with a potluck lunch, at the First Methodist Church on Church Street in Roseville.
SUTTER BREAST CANCER QUILT AUCTION
Our members also participate in the Sutter Breast Cancer Quilt Auction. This event occurs every three years; the next is scheduled for November 2011.
The Breast Cancer Quilt Auction is a community service project to raise funds for the Sutter Cancer Center's breast cancer research and patient treatment programs. In total, more than 1900 quilts and art quilt pieces were donated to the four prior auctions providing over $425,000 for the Cancer Center programs.
For more information about the auction and to view photos of donated quilts visit: www.suttermedicalcenter.org/quiltauction Questions may be directed to: quiltauction@sbcglobal.net
QUILTS OF VALOR AND OTHERS
We collect quilts for the Quilts of Valor group that sends patriotic-themed quilts to our soldiers. Sometimes we ask members to make specific blocks that are then sewn together to make a patriotic quilt top.
We also have a project to make and collect Potholder Quilt squares. They are sent to our October speaker, Don Beld, who heads up a project to honor fallen soldiers.