Community Service

The Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club’s members create quilts that are given to dozens of needy individuals and organizations throughout the year. Our Community Quilt Workday is on the last Wednesday of each month; members also work individually on community projects at their homes.

Our quilts are given to Clallam County residents who have experienced a crisis – perhaps a fire, flood or catastrophic illness. They are given to each family member of a new Habitat for Humanity home when the home is completed and the keys are presented to the family. They are given to local organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club, Red Cross, Food Bank, Olympic Medical Center, Dungeness Health and Wellness Free Clinic to raffle or auction for fund-raising.

When children experience trauma or unwelcome transition in their lives, the professional responders seek to provide them with comfort as well as safety and security.  Our club aids in this by providing Joy Quilts to Clallam County social service agencies and organizations. In partnership with us is the Sequim Prairie Grange who supplies us with the stuffed animals. A Joy Quilt is a small, handmade quilt wrapped around a plush animal and tied with a ribbon, giving the child something to love and hang on to.  These quilts are then given to the child by the workers Since our program's inception in 2008, more than 900  Joy Quilts have brought comfort to troubled hearts.

Our members also make Christmas stockings for the Foster Children of Clallam County. These aren't just ordinary stockings.  Each original, creative stocking is a work of art and love, reflecting the spirit of Christmas with colors and trimmings.  The Sues also provide stocking stuffers in the form of toys and toiletries and a gift of money for even more stuffers. 

In addition, fleece “qwillows” are made and presented to homeless veterans in the fall at the local “Veterans’ Stand Down”.

 

Our club sponsors a Quilt Show in July of each year in conjunction with the Sequim Lavender Festival. One of the exhibits displays Community Quilts that are ready for distribution and members demonstrate the final stages of basting and hand-tying as they explain our Community Quilt program.

Without the many generous donations of fabric, batting and thread and time spent sewing our donations to the Community would not be possible. Our members are grateful for the opportunity to share their quilting talents and passions by serving the communities in which they live.