Crocheted Dolls & Blankets from Terry

Today I met Gregg's cousin, Pam, to pick up a batch of crocheted blankets and dolls that Pam's sister, Terry, made for our guild to donate to the hospital.
Take a look at the cuteness here:

Can you imagine receiving one of those dolls as a gift when you check in to the hospital?

What fun! They (and the blankets) are going to bring a lot of cheer to sick children.

Thank you, Terry & Pam!

Seattle Children's Cancer Advocacy Network (C.A.N.)

The Seattle Children's Cancer Advocacy Network (C.A.N.) website is LIVE, and it's awesome! Please follow this link and browse through the site. There are interesting pages on the site that will inform and inspire you. "Our Partners" is a group of businesses that have hosted donation cans to help us raise awareness and funds in our own communities. Look for Poulsbo, Bainbridge Island and Silverdale businesses that you know, and please thank them by doing business with them! Every bit of support for the Seattle Children's Cancer Advocacy Network goes to pediatric cancer research! You will find Katie's Comforters Guild featured in the "About Us" tab.

8 New Blankets

We have a special mother-daughter team in our membership:

Mary & Briana.

Briana is our first "junior" guild member.

For Mary's birthday this year, Mary asked family and friends to join them in making blankets for our guild.

Mary & Briana recently made their delivery to Seattle Children's Hospital.

Cozy, cheerful, fun and comforting!

Thank you, Mary & Briana,

 for sharing your birthday wishes with Katie's Comforters Guild and the patients at SCH!

Kiwanis

I was invited to speak about Katie's Comforters Guild and Katie's Endowment for cancer research to the Kiwanis Club in Poulsbo this morning. It was a privilege. To read about it, click on this link and it will take you to my blog, Gberger.

Lucile's Birthday and 27 Quilts

Lucile Nilsen has done it again! She donated 27 beautiful quilts this week. You might be asking, "How does she do it?"

She does it by sewing a quilt nearly every day.

Have I mentioned that Lucile is about to celebrate her 89th birthday this month?

Happy Birthday, Lucile!

Thank you

for your generosity to
Seattle Children's Hospital patients

through our guild!

I hope, if I live to be 89, that I will be as sharp, funny, kind, generous and active as Lucile.
Lucile is modest, and declined to be photographed, so here are some of the latest batch of her gorgeous quilts.

A BIG "Thank You"

A

BIG

Thank You

 to Karen Jolly and

the Totem Lake Relief Society

 of the 

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

 for the

10 new quilts

that they made and donated to

Seattle Children's Hospital through

Katie's Comforters Guild!

IMPORTANT NEWS

Did you know that Seattle Children's Hospital Guild Association is the LARGEST, ALL-VOLUNTEER FUNDRAISING NETWORK for any hospital in the U.S.A.? I'm impressed - and happy that Katie's Comforters Guild is part of such a great organization!

Guild Members: Have any of you had an address change that we need to know about? Please contact us to let us know!

Please remember: dues renewal

deadline is NOVEMBER 15, 2010. 

 Thank you for your support!

You can help us grow by inviting friends and family to join us, telling your local quilt shop, yarn shop, coffee shop or senior center about us, inviting your friends on facebook, and handing out our cards! More quilts and blankets means more comfort for sick kids!

Not a member yet? Contact us, & we'll be happy to send you an application!

Need Inspiration?

Does anyone out there need creative inspiration? Maybe this will help inspire you - another donation of gorgeous fabric from Better-Bilt Furniture:

How about this:

...or this,

or this?

If you need fabric for making quilts for Seattle Children's Hospital, Katie's Comforters Guild has plenty of it! Contact us, and we will get the fabric to you, so you can make quilts for sick kids!

New Donations: Quilts and Fabric

Yesterday, I made a trip to Seattle Children's Hospital to deliver 42 blankets: 41 quilts made by Lucile N., and a fleece blanket made by Katie's school friend, Courtney.

On the way, I stopped to meet the kind people at Better-Bilt Furniture in Seattle. Better-Bilt Furniture is a family-owned company that began in 1946; they make fine custom furniture. They have a showroom with plentiful, beautiful samples of all kinds of fabrics: cotton, silk, linen, wool and many blends. They have generously offered their out-of-date samples to us to use - in quilts for patients, or for art quilts for auction.

 Fabric samples donated by Better Bilt Furniture in Seattle.

Thank you, Better-Bilt Furniture!

If any of you would like to help with art quilt design or construction, please contact me! We can raise money for the hospital, and for our guild, by making some of these quilts to offer for sale.

Gregg & I visited Lucile and Noble over the weekend, to bring Lucile donated fabric and blanket binding, and to pick up her latest batch of quilts.

Here are some autumn quilts from Lucile N. (note the football theme in two of them):

 Close-ups of Lucile's handiwork:

Thank you, Lucile!

Seattle Children's Cancer Advocacy Network (C.A.N.)

September was

Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month

- I think I've mentioned this!

Members of the newly-formed guild, Seattle Children's Cancer Advocacy Network (Seattle Kids C.A.N) placed donation cans in varous businesses around the area. Katie's Comforters Guild is a member of this new guild/group, so I placed cans in these local businesses, with their kind permission:

In Poulsbo:
Burrata Bistro & Paella Bar
Head Hunter Salon
Lola's Mexican Kitchen
Liberty Bay Books

On Bainbridge Island:
Crystal Cleaners
Paper Products
Rolling Bay Auto

In Silverdale:
Silver City Brew Pub

Now that it's October, I am visiting these businesses to collect the donation cans. Some of them (Burrata Bistro, Paella Bar, Lola's Mexican Kitchen and Liberty Bay Books) want to KEEP the CANS all year -

we appreciate that support so much!

The funds collected go to support pediatric cancer research.

Today, I stopped by Liberty Bay Books, an independent bookstore in the heart of our little town:

Here is the owner, Suzanne Droppert, holding her donation can.

Thank you to all who have donated!
Every penny counts toward
finding a cure for cancer.

Don't you love local bookstores?