Helping Hands
Our Helping Hands Committee provides quilts primarily to the Peterborough Crossroads Shelter. The Committee has also provided quilts to Palliative Care At PRHC for non-cancer patients, Cameron House and YES (Youth Emergency Shelter), ROC (Rural Outreach Committee) and other great organizations.
Kits may be picked up at our monthly guild meeting.
Many of our Guild members donate finished tops to be quilted or pick up a quilt to be bound.
Helping Hands also takes donations of good quality quilting cotton, or finished orphan blocks.
Please join them and help however you can.
In October of 2023, Peggy Fillier, Chairperson of Kawartha Quiltmakers’ Guild’s Helping Hands Committee delivered 50 quilts to the E. Fry Society (Peterborough). These quilts were given in support of the Tiny Homes Bridges Project on Wolfe Street.
Elizabeth Fry Facebook Page
Peggy reported at our December 2023 meeting that 345 quilts were distributed during 2023. Another 45 quilts are being provided for the new beds soon to be opened in the Trinity Community Centre (formerly the Trinity United Church).
- Palliative Care 20
- Crossroads 160
- Riverview Manor 10
- To the North 90
- Elizabeth Fry Society 50
- Path (tiny homes) 15
Quilts for Cancer Peterborough County
Quilts for Cancer Peterborough County is a local registered charity that makes and distributes quilts to cancer patients in the community. All of their donations, both financial and materials, will remain in our community. Their mission is to make and deliver quilts to cancer patients in our community. The quilts are free of charge, to those in need. There is no cost to the giver or recipient. For more information, to request a quilt, or to make a donation please contact:
Quilts For Cancer Peterborough County
P.O. Box 30062
RPO Chemong
Peterborough, ON K9H 7R4
705-875-5596
cancerquiltsptbo@gmail.com
Each year tickets are sold on an exquisite Raffle quilt as a fund raiser for this great organization. Please watch for Tickets sales at our Quilt show, the Hand of Man Craft show and other Peterborough Venues. If you wish to join us for sewing, please bring your sewing machines and any supplies that you would normally bring to a workshop.
We meet on the 3rd Friday of the month at
Westdale United Church
1509 Sherbrooke St.
Peterborough, ON
Time – 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
As we do not have storage for the Styrofoam cups etc… at the church we are asking that you bring your own coffee mug along with your lunch. We supply the coffee, tea and treats.
Meals on Wheels
A big thank you to Theresia for continuing to collect and deliver placemats made by our members. The placemats are delivered to Meals on Wheels in December in the hopes that a little cheer is provided to the recipients of the Meals on Wheels program. Guild members made 168 placemats in 2023 which were delivered to the local Meals on Wheels office.
Quilters Stand for Ukraine
A project presented at one of our meetings was to ask Guild Members if they were interested in participating in making blocks that could be made into toddler and/or lap quilts to be donated to a local charity to give to Ukrainian families who will be coming to Peterborough. The Guild Members, as always, stepped up to support this project and made many blocks which were made into 10 quilts, a wall hanging and a pillow.
The New Canadian Centre was very appreciative of our contribution of making quilts for the Ukrainian newcomers. Please see their posting of our contribution and pictures of recipients here:
Quilts for Australia
Another initiative was presented at one of our meetings in support of the Wollongong Modern Quilt Guild in Australia who were requesting quilt blocks to be sent to them so that they could make quilts to distribute to citizens that were affected by the bush fires. Wollongong Modern Quilt Guild who in turn will turn blocks into quilts. Our guild members took up the challenge and 44 blocks were made and shipped to the Quilt Guild in Australia.
