Community Service Sew Days
The Guild has a community service sew day monthly. This is open to everyone that wants to participate. All that is required is a sewing machine, basic sewing skills, and basic supplies. We provide all the fabric and batting. All we need is your help! On these sew days we will be making quilts to be donated to our local charities. This is not only a great way to give back to your community but a fun way to meet people while doing what you love to do, quilting! Our space is limited, so please RSVP to the organizers so they can plan ahead.
Community Service Sew Day
The Sit and Sew group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, 10:00am-2:00pm, at the Plano Sewing Center. RSVP to servicequilts@qgplano.org.
Plano Sewing Center
Community Service Sew Day
Items Needed
Making a Community Service Project
If you would like to make something to donate to one of the agencies that we support, we have instructions for making several items. Check out the links below.
Simple Pillowcase
Pillowcase with Trim (PLEASE SEW DOWN THE TRIM)
Cuddles
Binding
Pet Beds
Receiving Blanket
Free Patterns
We have put together a list of free patterns available on the web that are ideal for making community service quilts.
Organizations Supported by Our Guild
The Quilters Guild of Plano donates quilts and other items to the following organizations in Collin County:
The Samaritan Inn
The Samaritan Inn provides a no-cost, safe and clean place to live. Living areas for men, women and families are separate. Amenities include a dining room, playroom, computer lab, classrooms, a chapel, a fully-equipped playground and a kennel for residents' pets. We donate quilts sized 40” x 60” or larger along with pillow cases. See more about this organization at The Samaritan Inn.
Children's Advocacy Center of Collin County
A child centered agency providing counseling, family services, forensic interviews and a Rainbow Room of clothing and supplies for children. Here children have a safe environment and counseling to tell their story after experiencing abuse. QGP provides small, cheerful quilts and crocheted afghans, as well as seasonal pillowcases for the children. See their website at Children's Advocacy Center of Collin County
My Friend's House
City House provides this emergency youth shelter for children ages newborn to 17. Read more about the services they provide at cityhouse.org. We donate quilts and afghans for newborns to age 17 years.
School-Age Parent Program of PISD
Plano ISD's School-Age Parent Program assists students and their families dealing with the challenges of teen pregnancy. The students earn credits that can be spent twice a year to purchase baby items such as receiving blankets, small quilts, and other baby items.
Quilts of Valor Foundation
The Mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover Service members and Veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. The Quilter’s Guild of Plano is proud to support this effort. We have presented quilts to men and women that served from WWII to the most recent conflicts.
Soldiers' Angels - Christmas Stocking Project
Every year, as a guild, we make Christmas Stockings for charity. These stockings go to Soldiers' Angels, an organization that stuffs the stockings and delivers them to veterans at local VA hospitals. We also collect small toiletry items suitable for adults and pass them along as stocking stuffers.
We have an ongoing need for Christmas fabric, patriotic fabric, solid topper (cuff) fabric, and ribbon, which can be given to Community Service at any guild meeting. Kits will be available on request once the group gets them made up. If you have any kits, completed or not completed, they can be turned in at any meeting.
For more information about the Stocking Project, contact Community Service.
Pet Shelters
Members of the guild make pet pillows of various sizes to be delivered to pet shelters in our area. Pet Beds can be dropped off by members at a guild meeting or taken directly to a shelter. Pleases notify community service of any you deliver.
Children's Medical Center Plano
Children's Medical Center Plano provides medical care for children facing major illness or surgery. Throughout the year, 18" by 24" cuddle quilts are made by the guild for the young children so they will have something comforting to take with them for their MRI or CT scans and their hospital stay. We donate small quilts and cuddles.
The Turning Point: Rape Crisis Center of Collin County
This agency provides multiple services to assist rape victims, including counseling, hospital accompaniment, legal advocacy and a 24hr. crisis hotline. QGP provides medium sized quilts and crocheted afghans for these clients for comfort and to take home. See their website at theturningpoint.org.
Emily's Place
To break the cycle of domestic violence, for women and their children through, long term transformational care, that seek to restore faith, hope, and health. Emily's Place
Plano Community Homes
The essential human need for shelter lasts a lifetime and is difficult to maintain when an individual’s income is limited. Because we value people, we are committed to responding to this reality with affordable housing for low-income older adults and persons with limited mobility. PlanoCommunityHome
Lovepacs
Lovepacs was born out of a shared desire to help children in our community. In November 2011, the four founding families were made aware of 6 kids at Camey Elementary in The Colony who were being sent home from school every Friday with a backpack of food because they were not getting enough to eat on the weekend. After talking to the school counselor, they found out many of these kids were going to be hungry over the Thanksgiving holiday, when they were out of school for a week. The thought of kids not eating touched the hearts of those families, and they began Lovepacs to try to fill in the gaps for these children over the holiday.
The desire to assist children spread from The Colony to Plano. Hunter's Glen Baptist Church collects food every month for Lovepacs in the Plano area, specifically Sigler Elementary. School counselors assist in identifying children on the free and reduced lunch program through area public schools. Lovepacs provides mostly non-perishable, easy to open, and minimal cooking food items to children during extended school breaks when the food they receive from the local backpack program will not be enough, e.g., Thanksgiving, Christmas, Spring Break, Easter.
The list of items to be collected is listed below. If you want to help feed hungry children, this would be a way for you to help. If you care to participate, there will be a collection box as you enter the guild meeting. For more info see lovepacs.org.
Lovepacs Items:
- Vegetables - 15 oz cans
- Fruit - 15 oz cans
- Chunky Soup - 15 oz cans
- Chef Boyardee -15 oz cans
- Meat - (tuna, chicken, vienna sausages ) - 5 oz cans
- Peanut butter
- Grape jelly