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Vital Stitch tells the story of my aunt Teresas love for quilt making and the role that quilts played within my family heritage.
Sarkar Family, USA Quilt Making October 2007
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Sarkar Family, USA Quilt Making October 2007
Rosalie's Volunteers make Quilts for Kids with Cancer
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Rosalie Kelly Gonzalez is a member of the Class of 1960 from Sweetwater High School in National City, California. The Class of '60 celebrates its 50th Reunion in 2010, and Rosie is going to be there! She's never been to a class reunion before, but says this time she is going. Rosie owns a quilt making supplies shop. She and her friends combine the simple joys of quilt making with charity as each year they make and contribute 300-350 quilts to children diagnosed with cancer. Cancer strikes all ages and Rosie's quilts are given to cancer victims as something to wrap themselves inside, and, like Hope, something to hang on to. Once a month a team of volunteers gathers at Rosie's Calico Cupboard to work on the quilts. They choose from scraps of materials donated by Rosie's suppliers, and what they cannot finish that afternoon they take home. When the quilt tops are finished they are sent to another team of volunteers who have special "long arm" sewing machines. The "long arm" volunteers sew the "batting" and the back to the "pieced" front of the quilt, then send it back again to Rosie's for trimming and binding. Quilts are given to every child that attends the American Cancer Society's Reach for the Sky Camps in Balboa Park, San Diego, or in Julian, California. Other quilts are given to children the first time they are admitted to Childrens' Hospital, and still others, "Pink Ribbon quilts" are given to women diagnosed with breast cancer. Rosie tells her volunteers to "give ...
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