Other Non-Emergency Organizations Receiving Quilts
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Douglas County Task Force
Castle Rock CO (Birthday Room)
Susanne Greene, (far right) Douglas County Task Force director, displays some of our FHQ snuggle quilts with three of her employees. FHQ quilts are kept in their ‘Birthday Room’.
If a parent doesn’t have enough money to buy a present for their child’s birthday, the Task Force allows them to choose one nice
gift from the Task Force's Birthday Room to take home with them.
Next Task Force Delivery, December 2007
We wanted to be sure they had enough snuggle quilts to give the children for Christmas time so on
December 17, 2007, we delivered 23 more quilts
to their main office in Castle Rock.
Pictured to the right are the ladies in the office, including Suzanne Greene on the far right and Ellen Palmer (FHQ) in front, displaying a special Christmas pattern created by Bonnie Guy (FHQ).
They were so excited to receive the quilts because they had a lot of people coming in that week that needed assistance and had no money to buy Christmas gifts for their children. Our delivery came just in time.
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Gateway Safe House
Battered Women's Shelter
Denver, CO
Barbara McCrorie, Joy (Gateway Safe House) & Dusty Darrah delivered over 100 snuggle quilts for the children affected by domestic abuse/violence.
Joy sent a nice thank you card soon after
receiving their delivery.
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Douglas Co. Sheriff CSVs
Castle Rock, CO
Douglas County Sheriff Dave Weaver & Community Safety Volunteer Mike Darrah display one of the FHQ snuggle quilts we donated for them to give to children in crisis.
You can read stories of quilt deliveries by CSVs here.
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Conifer Resource Center
Conifer, CO
We delivered 40 snuggle quilts to the Conifer Resource Center.
They help people in need up in the hills west of the Denver area.
Marvena Baker-Shriver is their Dir of Operations.
Here’s Marvena’s message after receiving our donation.
Vicki Kowal and Marvena Baker-Shriver
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Denver Rescue Mission
Denver, CO
Barbara McCrorie (far left) & Ellen Palmer (middle in red) made a large quilt delivery to the Denver Rescue Mission in May 2007.
Larry Griffin (middle left)
Director of the Denver Rescue Mission, Lawrence Street Shelter
Jenny Whitcher, (far right) Public Relations Coordinator
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Douglas Co Human Services
Castle Rock, CO
In December, 2006, we delivered 18 quilts for children in Castle Rock at theDouglas County Human Services.
The case worker, Margaret Elliott & her boss gladly accepted them andwill give them to the children that
come through theirchild protective services department.
L-R-Dusty Darrah (FHQ), Margaret Elliott
(case worker) & her boss
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Thornton, CO
The children in this program are under the age of 10 & have Leigh’s disease or some other Mitochondrial/ Metabolic disorders that severely limit their life span. Each of the children in Eli’s Angels group received a FHQ snuggle quilt for their birthday this year. Periodically, as we receive thank you notes from the kids' parents, we'll post them here.
(L-R) Vicky Reed, Mary Peterson, Ann Kurtz (founder of Eli’s Angels),
Dusty Darrah, Barbara McCrorie, Cathy Owen, Susan Howarth,
Ellen Palmer & Jane Layng are the volunteers pictured here.
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Denver Health Medical Center
Denver, CO
Denver Health Medical Center employees pictured here
with FHQ Lucy Letellier & Dusty Darrah at
one of our deliveries for their ‘baby bags’.
The hospital gives each new mother a ‘baby bag’
filled with diapers, powder, booties
and one of our snuggle quilts.
See the little booties Lucy Letellier made
out of fleece?
Helping Newborns at Denver Hospital
A few months ago, I heard the volunteers at the hospital send the newborns home with a gift bag full of items for the new mothers brand new baby. The items they needed the most were quilts!
Since we had some extra snuggle quilts and fleece blankies in the storage bins, I delivered some to the hospital so they could be included in the gift bags too.
As Ruth & her volunteers started opening the delivery bags,
I heard several excited gasps. They were appreciated so much!
Amanda says it’s possible that some of our quilts will also be used in the Premie Ward to help keep the new arrivals warm.
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Father Judy’s House
Ft Logan, CO
Barbara McCrorie set up this deliver and we took 40 quilts to the Father Ed Judy House that helps children in the Ft Logan area. They were very happy to receive them and
promised to put them to good use.
Barbara McCrorie, Dusty Darrah & Ft Luptons representative
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Colorado Rett Syndrome
Denver, CO
Judi Masters, an employee of Action Care, has a 2½ year old granddaughter, Katelyn, that has Rett Syndrome. These children are born apparently ‘normal’ but soon things start to happen; loss of speech and/or walking skills are among the biggest symptoms that are noticed and so hard to diagnose.
There are about 20 girls in their group & they had a kick-off lunch June 2 to plan their fund raising Stroll A Thon for Aug 11, 2007. (same time as our Quilt Show.)
Since we weren't available ‘then’ to give them quilts, I delivered about 20 ‘girl-y’ quilts to Judi
for them in April so each one of them could have one of the quilts in the strollers with them
during their Stroll A Thon.
Visit their website corettsyndrome.org for additional information.
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Larimer County Social Services
(Pictured L-R) Dusty Darrah (FHQ),Christina Ulrich-Jones (Larimer CO),
Jane Layng (FHQ), Joanne Murphy (Larimer CO), Jacque Schneider (FHQ)
& Mary Peterson (FHQ)
Soon after we delivered 65 snuggle quilts to Larimer County Social Service in Fort Collins, we received a nice note letting us know how the distribution to the children went.
"I wanted to tell you that all the quilts were grabbed quickly by case workers today! They took them to their most needy families along with the Christmas Gifts for the kids. I will send you some tidbits when I hear some stories. The one that I do know about is a 16 year old girl who grew up in the Foster Care system due to severe abuse and mental illness issues...she will be getting a cuddle quilt and a teddy bear and her case worker was thrilled with the choice of colors! We put it around the big giant Bear in the big giant gift bag. I know she will love it."
Thanks again,
Christina
"Volunteering is Good for the Heart"
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Women in Crisis
Arvada, CO
This organization offers a home to ‘head of household’ women with children that need a ‘hand up’.
Since the residents may not have the money to buy their children a Christmas gift, we told Lindsay to use our quilts as their gifts. She just beamed!
We've already received a thank you card from their director.
Karen Schlegel & Lindsay from House of Hope
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Littleton Hospital
Littleton, CO
We delivered 75 snuggle quilts to the After Hours & Pediatrics departments
at the Littleton Hospital.
Here's a Thank You card from their staff.
Hi ! ! Thank you so much for all of the beautiful quilts.
We have taken delight in giving them out and they have been received with glee and appreciation.
Thank you for your hard work and generosity.
Sincerely,
The Staff at Littleton Children’s After Hours unit
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Jeffco Children's Alliance
Lakewood, CO
Sue King delivered 26 snuggle quilts to the Jeffco Children’s Alliance.
Here's a thank you we received from them afterwards.
We appreciate you thinking of the child victims of abuse we serve. Our children leave after a medical exam or forensic interview clutching in their little hands either a stuffed animal or a quilt (or both) and we see the exact same security animal or quilt in court when they have to testify and in any follow up interviews.
They really bond with a security item and Mom's tell us that they even have to sneak around and clean the security item
after the child falls asleep as they won't let loose of them for months at a time. So your love and care in making these quilts is profoundly appreciated!
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Quilts of Fish & Butterflies
Quilts of Fish & Butterflies
Rarely do the volunteers of Firehouse Quilts get the honor of participating in the actual delivery of our snuggle quilts
to the children themselves.
This delivery to Tanner & Nick Wilmer was exceptional.
Tanner (seated in front) will have brain surgery in California around Christmas this year, to help control his seizures.
We wanted to give him a unique lap quilt to use with his wheelchair and to have with him
in the hospital after surgery.
We chose a bright & cheery quilt with
fun little fish swimming on it.
(Pictured L-R) Barbara Dean, Dusty Darrah,
Jacque Schneider, Nick Wilmer & Tanner Wilmer (front)
Tanner, 12 years old, has had problems similar to Epilepsy since birth. Doctors say they've never seen a disease or problem like this before so he hasn't ever been formally diagnosed.
We printed his picture onto a fabric label for the back of his quilt with good wishes from Firehouse Quilts for his surgery.
Fabric Quilt Label on the back of Tanner's quilt.
Tanner’s brother, 9 year old Nick, hopes to accompany him from Parker, Colorado to 
California with their parents.
We wanted to make sure Nick felt very special too and hand-picked this pretty butterfly
snuggle quilt for him.
His eyes really lit up when he saw the other bugs in the borders of the quilt.
Nick, inspecting his butterfly quilt, looking for more bugs.
Both boys were so thrilled with their quilts, they slept with them
the very first night after we delivered them.
Their mom, Kris, was delighted to see the boys so happy and that each had their own quilt. What a wonderful family!
Kris Wilmer, mom
That day . . . .
We received a thank you note from Kris & the boys.
We received another heartwarming note from Kris the day after our delivery about a local hospital trip.
Victim Advocates
Highlands Ranch, CO.
Victim Advocates