Ellen Palmer gets next prize basket ready as
Dusty Darrah announces the winner.
If you can make an 'in-kind' donation to help fill our
Quilter's Gift Baskets, it would be greatly appreciated.
We assemble a beautiful gift basket or gift bag as the prize
for each of our quilt show winners. (approx. 30)
Everything in the gift basket has been donated
from quilting or sewing businesses
throughout the United States.
We always need nice, quilting related gifts to give
to the winners of our contest.
This quilt by Jessica Casady won
2009 Best of Show.
If gifts are left over, they are used as door prizes
at our Volunteer Appreciation event, honoring the countless hours
they give to Firehouse Quilts every year.
Our volunteers work tirelessly all year long,
donating over 1,000 snuggle quilts to Colorado Fire Departments,
Action Care Ambulance, several counties Human Services.
The firefighters give our quilts to children they see on their emergency runs.
Many non-emergency organizations working with children
in traumatic situations also receive our quilts.
Janee Brewer won 1st place in
LongArm Computerized category in 2009.
The larger quilts (twin sized) made by volunteers of FHQ
are given to the
Douglas County Women's Crisis Center
and
the smallest quilts and fleece blankies are given to
Denver Health Medical Center,
our local low-income hospital for the newborns.
2009 quilt by Marjorie Eastlund
won 3rd place in Art.
If you have an item that you could donate for our Gift Baskets
and/or door prizes for our volunteers,
please contact Lynn
Thank you so much for your donation!
Firehouse Quilts of Colorado, Inc.