
Community Contributions by the Forsyth Piecers
and Quilters Guild
Our guild advocates many programs and projects serving the entire Triad community. Preemie Quilts, a program
started almost a decade ago, is currently an on-going project. It involves members making preemie-sized
quilts for the neonatal intensive care nurseries at the Novant Health's
Forsyth Medical Center Babies born prematurely are very delicate and often these quilts are placed over
the incubators to provide protection to the babies' eyes from the light.
Nap Quilts is a project started for the first time in July, 2009. This project supports
"Equity Plus Schools" in Forsyth County, providing hand-made blankets, or better-yet, quilts that would be given
to the kindergarteners for using during the school year. At the end of the school year, the children get to keep
their blanket as their own.
During 2001-02, the FPQ guild members were involved with making quilts, afghans and teddy bears for the
Victory Junction Gang Camp founded by Patti and Kyle Petty,
which opened during early-summer 2004.
The Victory Junction Gang Camp, located in Randleman, NC, has sixteen (16) cabins each containing twenty (20) beds.
The Camp serves seriously ill children for a week long of fun-filled, exciting activities
and is one of seven in the network of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang camps started in 1988 by the late, Paul Newman.
Another wonderful project is Brenner Tree. For years, our guild has created hand-made Christmas Tree
ornaments for the Festival of Trees. All trees displayed are decorated by community volunteers. The Festival
of Trees is one of the largest fundraisers for Brenner Children’s Hospital.
Lottie Kay, President of 'Friends of Brenner Children's Hospital' visited our February 2009 meeting. Lottie
thanked those who do and have participated in the Brenner Tree project. She said that this year they had raised over $100,000
for Brenner Children’s Hospital.
For over 2 decades, this Festival of Trees has benefitted the pediatric programs at Brenner Hospital, helping
young patients and their families. Brenner Children’s Hospital is a part of the Wake Forest University
Baptist Medical Center.
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