Service Report: 2006 - 2007
The 2006–2007 Charity Work Day was March 10, 2007. What a busy and fun day! We made over 100 quilts! Thank you to all the participants, and special thanks to The City Quilter for donating the batting for all of the quilts that were put together. Here are a few pictures of some of our many enthusiastic participants.
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Empire Quilters Corporate Sponsors
The following companies are generous supporters of Empire Quilters. We appreciate their contributions, and their donations of fabric, services and supplies. Every donation helps our guild produce quilts for those in need, and helps us further the art of quiltmaking in our community.
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The City Quilter |
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Laytner's Linen & Home |
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Marcus Brothers Textiles Inc. |
If you or your company would like support Empire Quilters in its mission of providing quilts for charities, and in furthing the art of quiltmaking in our community, please contact info@empirequilters.net. We will welcome your participation!
Empire Quilters also thanks its newsletter advertisers. Our current advertisers are listed on the Regional Resources page. If you or your company would like to advertise in our monthly newsletter, please contact info@empirequilters.net. The newsletter is sent to all of our guild members — and is a great way to reach the active quilters in the greater Metropolitan area.
Thank you to our busy guild members
Thank you to the following individuals for their generous — and beautiful! — efforts throughout the 2006–2007 Empire Quilters season:
- Marie Annoul, 8 quilts
- Mary Butler, fabric
- Carmen Caldeiro, 1 quilt and 18 baby hats
- June Calender, 3 quilts and fabric
Alicia Cruz, 5 baby hats- Betty Chen, Michael & Anna Fung, 4 quilts and 6 teddy bears
- Janis Comerford, 3 quilts
- Paula Cruz, 3 quilt
- Fannie D’Avino, 60 baby hats
- Pat Decker, 4 quilts
- Betty Donerson, 1+ quilts
- Lee Ebbs, 3 quilts
- Anna Faustino, fabric
- Mary Ferry, 3+ quilt
- Marge Geary, 1+ quilt
- Carol Gressert, 9 baby hats
- Joan Hellmann, 1+ quilts
- Melanie Hill, 1+ quilts
- Freida Hoyett, 3 quilts
- Barbara Hull, 3 quilts and fabric
- Juliana Kalloo, 4 quilts
- Marilyn Korn, 2 quilts
- Anna Krassy, 4+ quilts
- Eve Lee, 1+ quilts
- Shirley Levine, 1 quilt
- Susan Louis, fabric
- Ulla McCarthy, 2 quilts
- Judy Mein, 1 quilt
- Veronique Milliez, 2 quilts
- Marjorie Moses, 1+ quilts
- Diane Paul, 3 quilts
- Janet Randolph, 1+ quilts
- Dawn Rhodes, 1 quilt
- Rita Reid, 1 quilt
- Diane Rubinstein, fabric
- Marie Segares, 1 quilt top
- Betty Silver, 1 quilt top
- Sandy Syken, 6+ quilts and 175+ baby hats
- Lorna Spence-Ellis, 1 quilt
- Ann Strauss, 3 quilt
- Andrea Tebesceff,, 1+ quilt
- Rhona Triggs, 6 quilt
- Margaret Umansky, 1 quilt
- Pamela Leonard Wexler, 8 quilts
- Eve Weiner, fabric
- Sylvia Zeveloff, 1+ quilts and fabric
We had enormous participation on our annual Charity Day (March 10, 2007). Quilts and tops were donated by Marge Geary, Dorothy Petras, Barbara Hull, Veronique Milliez, Leila Leiberman, Michael Greenberg, Betty Chen, Lorna Spence-Ellis, Sylvia Hughes, Susan Knaster, Evelyn Berkowitz, Diane Paul, Anna Sinisyna, Mary Jane Van Loon, Carmen Calbeiro, Winifred Sanders, Rita Reid, Lee Ebbs, Eve Lee, Ann Townley, Janice Comerford, Janice Johnson, Margaret Umansky, Freida Hoyett, Jane Broaddus, Wendi Higginbotham, Paula Kenny, Kitty Squire, Marian Webber, and Beth Pile.
Fabric Donations came from Nancy Castel, Anna Faustino, Lisette Zichinsky, Marie Clarice Foss, Veronique Milliez, Catherine Bancroft, Felicia Ingram, Agneta Noe, Diane Rode Schneck, Kate Iscal, Dorothy Arkell, Lee Ebbs, Cheryl Cadet, Wendi Higginbotham, Ulla McCarthy, Sylvia Zeveloff, and Lois Sautter.
Baby hats were made by Anna Calbeiro, and many people not named here kept their scissors and needles flying to get the quilts assembled and finished.
The City Quilter once again donated the batting for our project. We are grateful for their continued support of our guild's service activities.
Charities Supported by Empire Quilters
Throughout the year quilts and other service projects are delivered to the following organizations by Empire Quilters. To view the current list of organizations supported by the guild, vist the main Service Page.