Roseville Quilters Guild, PO Box 513, Roseville CA  95678

Community OUTREACH

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.

UNBELIEVABLY EASY PILLOWCASE PATTERN - Revised

COMMUNITY PANTRY

Each month we ask members to bring specific types of food, which is taken to the St. Vincent de Paul food bank in Roseville after each meeting. This is the list with suggestions for the year:



COMMUNITY SERVICE

Our primary emphasis is on quilts and pillowcases. Our community service chairpersons are creative in managing donated fabric, making kits, coordinating quilting, and finding appropriate places for quilt and pillowcase donations.


In 2019-2020 (July to June) we made 185 sets of small quilts that are given with a book and stuffed animal to preschoolers, 233 regular Community Service quilts, 633 pillowcases, and 79 Quilts of Valor.


Some of the places our quilts have been donated include:

 •Active Duty Service Members and Veterans

 •Christmas Families

 •Adelante High School Graduates

 •Alternatives Pregnancy Center

 •ARC of Placer County

 •Boys' & Girls' Club of Placer County

 •Children's Receiving Home of Sacramento

 •Christian Youth Theater

 •City Life Auction

 •Community for Peace

 •Dept of Veterans Affairs

 •Dialysis Center

 •El Dorado Hills Boys & Girls' Club

 •Head Start Placer County

 •Juvenile Diabetes Auction

•Kaiser Roseville

 

Special themed pillowcases are made each year for the UC Davis Pediatrics unit for Valentines Day, Dr. Seuss’ birthday, and Christmas.


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.  We’re generally there from 9:30am-3pm.


We also love it when we get donated quilts or quilt tops.  Approximate size we would like donated tops to be are:


TROOP SUPPORT


 We are an official  Quilts of Valor  chapter, and as such, we make and present patriotic-themed quilts to our veterans and service members touched by war.    Once a quarter we meet together to work on beautiful patriotic quilts and then end with a wonderful award ceremony to some very deserving veterans. To nominate a service person or veteran to receive a Quilt of Valor, go to the Quilts of Valor website, then follow the instructions. It’s super easy.


For Christmas, we make and stuff stockings to send to troops overseas.  We accept donations of specific items, and also collect money to purchase them ourselves.  Here is a list of things we can use to stuff the stockings.  We are now making “tiny stockings” that are going overseas. Here’s the pattern and the instructions for making them.


Once a quarter we meet from 9-3 at the Shepherd of the Sierra Presbyterian Church in Loomis to work on Quilts of Valor.  We welcome anyone who’d like to come.  If you are not on the QOV email list, please call Kaye Allen 916-960-9257 to verify the time and date of the meeting.  


Quilts of valor can be made by anyone, either for a specific recipient or for our general program. The recommended size of a Quilt of Valor is 60″ x 80″ with a maximum of 72″ x 90.  It can be any pattern but must not look like an American flag.


 •Lilliput

 •Mary's House

 •Mustard Seed School

 •Oakridge Healthcare Center

 •Roseville Home Start

 •Sacramento Life Center

 •Seniors First

 •Sierra Pregnancy and Health

 •Stand Up Placer

 •Sutter Hospice Roseville

 •Sutter Hospital Children's ward

 •Taylor House

 •U. C. Davis Pediatrics

 •Volunteers of America

 •Wellspring Women's Center