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12-08-2010, 11:46 AM
#27
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Southern California
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That is a wonderful thing. My guild supports a local shelter with quilts for the kids. They get it when they arrive to decorate their and get to keep it. We donated about 200 last month. Unfortunately, the statistics the representative gave us was they had 360 children come through last year.
She has wonderful stories of what it means to the children. So keep it up if you can.
She has wonderful stories of what it means to the children. So keep it up if you can.
12-08-2010, 06:39 PM
#28
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Brentwood, CA
Posts: 317
Thank you all for the kind words..you are all very nice. My post was not to boast, but to share the sense of appreciation that I received from the shelter. I was brought to tears. I have donated many quilts through my local guild, but you never see the faces of appreciation from those who receive them, unless you deliver them personally. I have only delivered quilts once before and was met with such non-appreciation I was very hurt. I delivered 12 quilts and the gal didn't even look at what I was donating nor ask my name before she took them to the back room. Sometimes I never knew where my donation quilts went after giving them to the guild either. Giving to this shelter was such a positive experience, I can't wait to get started on next year's!
12-08-2010, 08:34 PM
#29
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Southern New Jersey USA
Posts: 1,473
Your loving gift may have far reaching good effects that you will never know about. You may have passed on not just physical comfort but the comfort of a child feeling they are worthwhile enough for someone to spend their time to make something for him or her. God bless you!
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