PIECEMAKERS

 

Bernice Aden and Marilyn Brown

(Meet every Thursday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. in Luther Hall)

 

Piecemakers is a group of women that meets every Thursday, all year round, to make quilts, layettes, school kits and health kits which we send to Lutheran World Relief once a year. Our goal is to make 75 of each of the kits and the layettes.  We also make quilts for every child that is baptized at United during the year and one for each high school graduate.  We also make smaller quilts for the Benton County Children’s Shelter, including some made out of fleece material. The materials used for all these projects are either donated by members of the congregation or purchased with money donated by our members. 

 

In November, 2008, we shipped the following to LWR:

 181  Quilts

 72  Health Kits

 70  School Kits

              58  Layettes

                            

         In addition we sent quilts and boxes of
                             clothing to the Children’s Shelter and Quilts
                             of Valor to Iraq.

 

There are many items that we can use:  

 

                     . . . . good used material for quilt blocks

                    . . . . .sheets for backing

                    . . . . .tee shirts for making diapers and wash cloths

                    . . . . .flannel sheets for blankets and sleepers

                    . . . . .knitted shirts, onesies and sweaters

                    . . . . .good used towels and washcloths for health kits

                    . . . . .heavier material for bags that we use for the school kits  

                    . . . . .fleece for children’s quilts

 

Each Layette Contains:         

• Two shirts or Onesies® (or similar item)

• Two gowns or sleepers (with or without feet)

• Two receiving blankets

• Four cloth diapers, flat fold preferred

• One sweater or sweatshirt

• Two washcloths

• One bath-size bar (4-5 oz.) of gentle soap, in its original wrapping

• Two diaper pins

 

Each Health Kit Contains:     

·         One hand towel, dark color recommended

·         One washcloth, dark color recommended

·         One bath-size bar (4-5 oz.) of soap, any brand, in its original wrapping

·         One adult-size toothbrush in its original packaging

·         One comb, wide tooth preferred, remove packaging

·         One metal nail file or nail clippers with file attached, remove packaging
(do not substitute cardboard emery boards for the file)

·         Six Band-Aids® (or similar brand), preferably 1/2" to 3/4"; secure together with a rubber band

 

Each School Kit Contains: 

            Padded or spiral notebooks of wide- or college-ruled paper approximately 8" X 10 1/2" totaling
            150-200 sheets (if using 70-sheet notebooks, please include three); do not include loose-leaf
            paper

·         One blunt scissors (safety scissors with embedded steel blades work well)

·         One 30-centimeter ruler, or a ruler with centimeters on one side and inches on the other

·         One pencil sharpener

·         Six new, unsharpened #2 pencils with erasers; secure together with a rubber band

·         One eraser approximately 2-1/2" long

·         12 sheets of construction paper in assorted colors
(if necessary, fold in half to fit into the school kit bag)

·         One box of 16 or 24 crayons

·         One sturdy cloth bag approximately 12" X 14" with cloth handles or drawstring