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Festival of Trees Comfort Quilts

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Working with our schools

Fund Raiser quilts

A very important part of what we do is contribute to our community and its residents through these and other projects.

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   As a service to the community members make comfort quilts and lap-blankets with materials provided by, or donated to, the guild.  The comfort quilts are given to the Red Cross, battered women's shelter, crisis nursery and Lewiston and Clarkston police and fire departments to give to families and children in time of crisis. Seaport Quilters provide over 100 quilts per year to the valley for this cause.  The lap-blankets are made for residents of area nursing homes for when they are in their chairs to keep them warm and comfortable.    Every year Camelot Elementary school conducts a Fourth Grade Rendezvous where the children are introduced to many outdoor and self-help skills.  
   One of our guild members works with the children on a small quilting project to teach them about the fabric-arts.
   We are frequently asked to make a quilt for a cause. This quilt was made for Whitman Elementary School to  raise funds for an educational boat trip into Hell's Canyon. 
   Other beneficiaries have been St. Josephs Medical Center, our local Boys & Girls Club, and Wishing Star Foundation.
Pam Smith surrounded by Veteran's Administration quilts
   Each year the guild decorates a tree for Tri-State Hospital Foundation's "Festival of Trees" fund raiser for various extras at the hospital.  Members make hand-stitched decorations, quilts, and accessories to decorate the tree which is then sold at auction, earning funds for hospital projects.