Donations!

 After months of trying to find recipients for our 27 quilts nearly all of them will be leaving our stash this week.

One Orange Peel quilt is being reserved for a later donation for a fundraiser prize and we will be getting a couple of the baby quilts back that are designated for the Heron's Nest project but, otherwise they will all be gone by the next time we meet.

We were very fortunate to be able to donate two of our quilts directly to two very worthy recipients, the two children whose family lost their home to a house fire in Strathcona this week.  You can read the Sun Newspaper article here.  Our last heart quilt went to a little girl, aged 7 and the blue scrappy brick quilt went to her 9 year old brother.  Marybeth is kindly organizing the delivery with Mark, her gardener who knows the family the the two Stinton children are staying with.

On Saturday I will be delivering thirteen quilts to Project Linus in Burnaby and on Tuesday the baby and toddler quilts will be going to the Heron's Nest office where the moms can choose one that they like and the rest we will keep on hand for new moms coming into the program during the year.  Project Linus serves children who are going through a stressful period in their lives as well as BabyGoRound.  The Heron's Nest is a support program of the VSB whose goal is to keep young parents in school so that they can complete their high school educations.