Meanwhile, I've sent a letter to all of our members:
Dear Katie’s Comforters Guild Members,
Our first year has been a great success, and it is thanks to you and your efforts! THANK YOU, each one of you, for helping to bring comfort to patients at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Whether you sewed, knitted, crocheted, assembled fleece blankets, purchased or donated materials or gift cards, or told your friends and family about us, you made a difference in the life of a sick child.
We donated more than 215 blankets this year, and we grew to 50 members! That was our first year; imagine what we can do next year!
Here are some ideas for next year:
-gather new, unused fabric from donors (fabric shops, retiring quilters, etc.)
-be on the lookout for fabric sales
-have a blanket-making party & make fleece blankets, or host a sewing circle or knitting/crocheting circle at your house, sewing or yarn shop (it’s even more fun if you can share food and beverages)
-tell your local newspaper about us – give an interview or write a letter to the editor.
-Hand out our cards to friends and acquaintances.
-tell your facebook friends about us – we have a page now, in addition to our blog
-set a personal goal to sew, knit, crochet or make (choose a number) fleece blankets this year
-take photos of any blankets you make for the guild to donate & send them to me – I’ll post them on the blog and facebook!
-order your Jo-Ann Stores discount card at www.joann.com/VIP or by calling 877-604-2280.
-help us sew an art quilt for auction (to raise funds for our guild) – if you’d like to do this, please contact me!
-share your ideas on our blog at www.katiescomfortersguild.blogspot.com
In case you don’t know, September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness month, and there is a lot of activity around the country to raise awareness and funds for research. This spring, our guild was invited to become part of the Seattle Children’s Cancer Advocacy Network, or Seattle Kids C.A.N., a group of Seattle Children’s Hospital Guilds that support cancer research. We are helping to raise funds by placing donation cans in businesses in our area. If you would like to join in the efforts of this group, please email me at karenlboren@yahoo.com , or write to me on our blog and I will share the information that I have with you.
Seattle Children’s Hospital has great good news: Dr. Mike Jensen, a pioneer researcher in immunology, has joined Seattle Children’s Research Institute to lead the new Center for Childhood Cancer. He is doing amazing work with the immune system that has potential to change the way we treat cancer for the better! You can see a video of Dr. Jensen explaining his work at www.rockthecurefoundation.com (at his former hospital, City of Hope – I hope to see a new, Seattle Children’s Hospital video soon).
I think that’s all the news, for now. Please check our blog for updates and feel free to contact me if you have ideas, suggestions or questions. Thank you again for all you do to make Katie’s Comforters Guild a success!
Blessings to you,
Karen (your President)
karenlboren@yahoo.com
I'm thankful for each one of you members and friends of our Guild.
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