Inspiration!

If this picture isn't inspiration to make more quilts, I don't know what is! This is a child with a new quilt after his/her cleft palate surgery (in either Venezuela or Mexico.. I have forgotten which).

What an adorable little thing! I think it is unusual for them to operate on someone this young, so remember to make your quilts a little larger than infant size. Nevertheless, this picture really got me excited about making more quilts! Does it work for you, too?

--carol e.

Quilts Galore

We must all be very busy making quilts for Wrap a Smile and Wrap Them in Love. We have not been very talkative lately. These photos show some of the quilts that have recently been made for Sunshine kids.

Join us if you can! It's fun and worthwhile making quilts for kids undergoing cleft palate surgery, and also for kids in orphanages around the world.

We are keeping the world warm.... one quilt at a time.

Super Bowl Sunday!

Join us for a day of Sunshine sewing on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb 1, 2009! We'll be making blocks and quilts for kids, and checking in at our Yahoo group site for chit chat. In addition, Bev B. will be drawing names for prizes! It'll be a virtual Sunshine sewing retreat, and we hope lots of folks can join in the fun.

WAS Annual Report

Happy New Year Everybody,
I finally got the chance to sit and sharpen my pencil for some Wrap-A-Smile 2008 information. From the records I have in my log Wrap-A-Smile received a total of 1,939 quilts. Family Circle contributors still coming in donated 289 quilts. Sunshine contributed 1027. Quilts from other sources 623. Quilters spent $1,155.38 in shipping costs. We finished the year with a total of 12,331 quilts being distributed to Rotaplast and Alliance for Smiles since the project started in 2001. This number does include the 75+ ready to be shipped. My sincere Thank you to one and all.
Terry

New Totals

photo by Tracey


Look at the numbers of quilts we Sunnies donated in recent months! WTG!

AUGUST: WAS - 63 total; WTIL - 18 total

SEPTEMBER: WAS - 27 total; WTIL - 7 total

OCTOBER: WAS - 28 total; WTIL - 14 total

NOVEMBER: WAS - 66 total; WTIL - 11 total

Check out the new yearly totals in the sidebar. Thanks to everyone for being so generous!

The Kids & Quilts in Ukraine

What adorable little faces!

Quilts to the Ukraine

Our wonderful charity quilters from this Sunshine Quilt guild helped make and donate almost 50 quilts to send to a missionary in the Ukraine for an orphanage. She posted a picture of the kids with some of the quilts at her blog. http://www.fireleann.blogspot.com/ Check it out!