Atlanta quilting groups partner to provide quilts for children

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[December 03, 2015]   ATLANTA - The Atlanta Quilting Corner in partnership with the Atlanta Methodist Women Quilters will be providing 30 quilts to the Cunningham Children's Home in Champaign and Lessie Bates Home in St. Louis.

Each child at these facilities will be given a quilt, to keep, when they arrive. The quilts provide, not just warmth, but comfort because it gives them something they can call their own in a strange new place.
Contributing quilters for this year's projected included: Ruth Gordon, Violet Beck, Rosie Price, Pat Daugherty, Connie Stock, and Donna Campbell, Atlanta; Jill Boyd, Lincoln; Irene Milton, McLean.

This partnership will continue in 2016 as the two groups set a goal of 50 quilts for the Cunningham Children's Home and Lessie Bates Home. The Atlanta Quilting Corner will also be making 50 quilts for the Children's Hospital at Saint Francis, Peoria.

Anyone interested in helping meet this 100 quilt goal is invited to come and be a part! For more information contact 217-960-6261.

The Atlanta Methodist Women Quilters meet to finish quilts on scheduled Wednesday's from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Call 217-960-6261 for the current schedule and location.

The Atlanta Quilting Corner creates quilt tops every Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Atlanta Manor, 201 N. Howard Street.

Finish work is done at the Atlanta Memorial Community House basement, 6th Street, every Saturday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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The Quilting Corner is privileged to have a workspace made available by the Atlanta Parks Department, at the Memorial Community House basement.



In that space, the group can tie and bind any size quilt. Utilizing a donated quilt frame, they can machine quilt for a professional finish.

The Atlanta Quilting Corner would like to say "Thank-you" to the Atlanta Parks Department and WDC Managment, Inc. for these wonderful work spaces.

[Donna Campbell]

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