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- October 2024 Meeting Highlights
THANK YOU! Thank you to everyone who donated items, volunteered, and joined us at our 25th Birthday Bash celebration! It was a huge success! Quilt Challenge Pictures Quilt Challenge Winners Silent Auction Pictures NW Sewing Center hosted a Sew Day and the ladies who joined us made the cutest Scrappy Brick quilt tops, plus we had a few quilts (and a bag of fabric) donated as well! (we'll be doing this again in January!)
- March 2024 Meeting Highlights
Facility Spotlight Austin State Hospital, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (ASH-CAPS) Bed Capacity: 28 Diagnoses/Mental Health Conditions seen: • ADHD • Depression, Major Depression • Conduct Disorders – Oppositional Defiant Disorder • Substance Use Disorder • Self-injury / harm disorder • Mood Dysregulation Disorder • PTSD from abuse/neglect • Eating disorders • Autism spectrum disorders & IDD We have been delivering blankets to ASH-CAPS since December 2000 when we dropped off 33 blankets. Since that day, we have delivered to ASH 166 times, totaling 4,275 blankets. Thank you!! We received a note from APH Neighborhood Centers which included the following message: “Thank you so much for everything that your ladies do. We had a client come in to get a food pantry box who said that the blanket that we gave them is her son's favorite blanket and won't go anywhere without it. I don't remember the exact blanket but I believe that it had super hero's on it? (don't quote me on that). “ Show and Tell Thank you very much for the Tuna Helper donations!!
- 2024 Silent Auction Items!!
Our annual Birthday Bash, Quilt Challenge and Silent Auction is on October 19, 2024 from 9:00 - 11:00 am. It is in the Family Life Center at St. Philip's United Methodist Church in Round Rock, 16321 Great Oaks Dr, Round Rock, TX 78681. Everyone is Welcome to join us! (There will be additional items at the Silent Auction that are not pictured but these pictures capture the majority of the baskets and kits).
- May 2025 Meeting Highlights
Fabric Sale Fundraiser July 19 - 9:00 - 11:00 am $10 per pound for all fabric!! Show and Tell
- June 2025 Meeting Highlights
Baby Beanie Hats for WIC The WIC program is doing a special event and our blankets will be provided. WIC also includes crocheted or knitted baby hats so if you would like to make one or more baby hats to add to our blanket donation, please bring the completed hats to the July meeting. Their theme is "Grow in Texas" and Stephanie passed out sample patterns for watermelon and grape hats, but make anything fruit or vegetable related (or something else you think of that follows the "Grow in Texas" theme). Please bring completed hats to the July meeting or drop off at a drop off location prior to July 19. eMail Stephanie for links to patterns or questions! stephanie@thelinusconnection.org Demo Thank you Barbara for such a wonderful scrap/strip quilt demo! Click the link below for Barb's Info and Tips sheet. Show and Tell and all the pasta sauce donations for the church food bank!
- March 2025 Meeting Highlights
Demo Quilts! The team was ready with the cutest quilts and kits! Patterns for these quilts can be found on the free patterns and ideas page HERE . Show and Tell!!
- April 2025 Meeting Highlights
Don't forget - our Fabric Sale Fundraiser is coming this July! July 19 - 9:00 - 11:00 am $10 per pound for all fabric and other goodies too! Demo Rail Fence Ripple Show and Tell
- November 2024 Meeting Highlights
Show and Tell Pictures
- December 2024 Meeting Highlights
Holiday Party Pictures Show and Tell Pictures
- January 2025 Meeting Highlights
Demo - Using Pool Noodles with Kaye Show and Tell Pictures
- February 2025 Meeting Highlights
Quilts with Loraine Patterns Boxed In (using 4.5 inch squares) Bricked In Disappearing Nine Patch with Feature Fabric Modified Bricks and Blocks Shorter Tumbling Tiles Splitting Squares Tumbler Quilt Show and Tell Chisholm Trail Quilt Guild - 2025 Quilt Show
- September 2024 Meeting Highlights
Reminder: Our Birthday Bash is on October 19! Birthday, Quilt Challenge and Silent Auction!! 9-11 am Show and Tell!