Yakima Valley Quilters' Guild

2011 Raffle Quilt

Guild members led by Kathy Christian recently finish work on our beautiful raffle quilt for 2011, "Stars in My Garden". Tickets are on sale now and are $1.00/ticket and you need not be present to win. The drawing will be May 14, 2011 at 3:00 pm.

Buddy Bag Program~through Voices for Children

North Star Center~(cancer treatment)

YWCA Yakima ~ Battered Women's Shelter

EPIC Crisis Nurseries

Children's Village

Memorial Hospital's ~ NICU Department

(Please note the special fabric requirements for babies in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit at Memorial Hospital are listed below.)

Guild members also donate countless hours to other charities throughout our community including the Union Gospel Mission, Veteran's Hospital and many local churches. It's great to be able to share our love of quilting with others!

We, as a Guild, are proud to contribute in a large way to the  ’Ohana Mammography Center. Through our donations women of the Yakima Valley that are struggling financially have the opportunity to receive "gift certificates" for mammograms and screening. We do this through sale of raffle tickets and items dontated to our silent auction at our Quilt Show held biannually. Your donations are proudly accepted so that we can continue to support this program as we have done for many years.

SHOEBOX QUILTS ARE EASY AND FUN

One of the more creative and fun projects headed up by Kathy Winters is our "Shoebox Quilts". These quilts are artfully planned and cut out by Kathy, placed in shoe boxes along with the directions and then "adopted" by a guild member. They take their shoe box quilt home, sew it together, quilt it and then return it to the guild for "show and tell" and then it is donated to one of our designated charities. If  you haven't tried a "Shoebox Quilt" yet, contact Kathy Winters to "adopt" one of your own!

Charity Quilt Sizes and Special Info:

Children's quilt for Pediatric Interim Care Center
8" x 18" or 30" x 56"
Low contrast fabrics, flannel backs, machine quilting preferred (if ties are used, they must be on top).

Other suggested sizes

Children's - 40" X 50" UP TO 70" X 70"

Twin Bed quilts - 75" x 90"

Baby quilts - 36" x 36"

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) - 18" x 18" or 36" x 36"

For more information on the charity quilts please contact us.

Yakima Valley Quilters’ Guild Press Release

        O’Hana, Memorial’s           Mammography Center  

1515 W. Yakima Ave. Yakima, WA

Yakima Valley Quilters’ Guild Donates Record $10,000 Toward Mammogram "Gift Certificates"

Yakima Valley Quilters’ Guild members will donate a record $10,000 to the Memorial Foundation to sponsor mammogram gift certificates for valley women, Wednesday, September 14 at 3 p.m. at O’Hana, 1515 W. Yakima Avenue in Yakima. The donation is part of the 5th

anniversary celebration at O’Hana.

The money was raised through sales of silent auction quilts during the guild’s May 2011 quilt show, a portion of the ticket sales from the guild’s 2010-2011 raffle quilt "Stars in My Garden" and admission tickets to the show. More than half of the money to be donated was raised through the silent auction of quilts and quilted items created by guild members and auctioned off during the show held at State Fair Park May 20 and 21.

 The Memorial Foundation uses the money raised to offset the costs of mammograms for Central Washington women who otherwise may not be able to afford to have this life-saving screening performed.

The Yakima Valley Quilters’ Guild is made up of more than 70 members who are dedicated to quilting and contributing to the community through quilting. In addition to the mammogram gift certificates, guild members regularly donate quilts to a number of community organizations throughout the year.

 The mission of the Yakima Valley Quilters’ Guild is to foster the art of quilt-making through sharing and teaching, sponsoring workshops, demonstrations and quilt shows. It is an organization dedicated to the preservation & promotion of quilting and other needle art through education and community service.

 For more information call Nancy Abbenhaus at 509-966-7762 or YVQG President Kathleen Smith at 509-965-2630.