AQS newsletter and quilt donations

This just came to my email:

     AQS members rally to aid Hurricane Katrina's victims

All of us have watched in horror, as Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf
Coast this week. Quilters are always ready to lend a helping hand when
needed. We are depending on that generosity as we launch *AQS Quilters
to the Rescue*.

The American Quilter's Society will act as a repository for quilts to be
donated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. This will be a long-term
commitment. We will receive quilts into our warehouse and pack them to
be shipped on to the disaster areas, when and where requested by the aid
groups. Our Paducah, Kentucky location is the perfect launch point for
the aid. We are asking for completed bed quilts and baby quilts only.
/Do not send/ quilting supplies, wallhangings, or unfinished quilts.

With colder weather just two months away, quilts made with loving care,
will offer comfort to those facing winter and rebuilding their lives. As
many as a million people may be left homeless due to this catastrophic
disaster. It is likely that many people will be in shelters and other
relocation facilities through much of the winter. Quilts will be needed!
So spread the word!

Send donated quilts to:

AQS Quilters to the Rescue

c/o American Quilter's Society

5801 Kentucky Dam Road

Paducah , KY 42003

For those of you wishing to donate money instead, we suggest a donation
to NOVA (National Organization for Victim Assistance). They will be
providing long-term assistance on many levels. You may go to their Web
site at www.trynova.org  or send checks to
NOVA, 510 King Street, Suite 424, Alexandria, VA 22314, or call them at
703-525-NOVA.

For an optional AQS Quilters to the Rescue quilt label, go to
www.AmericanQuilter.com and download the PDF. The label will be
available on line on Thursday, September 1 st.

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Wanting to help somehow...

The destruction from Hurricane Katrina is worse than I could have ever pictured in my mind. I've been watching the weather channel and CNN....and as things unfold I realise just how easily it could have been me, or you, or someone that we knew.

People have lost everything....so fast! We think we are safe here in America, and that our worst enemy was some group of people in the middle east or far away.....but nature's wrath is unequalled, and always will be.....

I thought of how people made quilts for the survivors of 9-11 and for the sunami survivors, and for the service men/women in Iraq. I thought maybe there was something for that for Katrina so I went searching.

I checked out the article on http://www.quiltzine.com/ but the quilts are not to even be collected until NEXT APRIL!? Does anyone know of any thing being set up to get quilts to people before then?

I guess until we know, the best thing we can do is just start on the quilts now, knowing there will be a place to send them when someone sets it up, as it is too soon into the aftermath for something to be arranged yet?

With Labor Day holiday this coming weekend, I think I'm going to 'retreat' at home on some lap quilts to be donated as soon as I have a place for them to go to.

Anyone want to join me?

Bonnie
(grumbling as she watched the price of gas go up another 20 cents over lunchtime)

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36 blocks make up a 'barn raising' layout. 9 barn raising layouts make the quilt center. I am just two blocks short of the 36 block barn rasings to be able to finish the quilt center. Of course this will be machine quilted because the thing is nearly ALL seams on the back side!

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How small is small?? I started this log cabin project several years ago. There are some fabrics that are just too precious to throw out, even when there is hardly anything left. I started this as a mini, but it grew and grew, and it is nearly going to be bedsized if I could get mysef back to it. These little babies ARE paper pieced. I'm not ashamed to say that! There are 4 rounds around a tiny solid red square, and the blocks finish at 3.5".  

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