Forsyth Piecers - Nap Blankets Page

NAP BLANKET WORKSHOPS

St. Timothy's Church-WS
Kits are supplied

For fabric donations,
please contact Dale Link
dlinksews@gmail.com

NAP BLANKETS

Nap Blankets is a project started for the first time in July, 2009. This project supports the "Equity Plus Schools" program in Forsyth County, providing hand-made blankets to pre-schoolers and kindergarteners to use during the school year. At the end of the school year, the children get to keep their blanket as their own.

During an August 2009 monthly meeting, Dale Link, an active FPQG member, made the plea promoting the charitable program. Since then, Dale has been the total force behind providing members with instructions and setting up workshops where members can get together to make the blankets. Dale is now the chair over the Nap Blankets position. Please feel free to contact Dale with any questions or for more information about the program.

2010-2011

2010-2011 School Year Nap Blanket Delivery

Oct 2010 - Dale reported that this year the Nap Blanket Project was a great success, having delivered a total of 400 nap blankets to three schools. Her new goal is to try to deliver to all of the Title 1 students in the county for next year. This would require additional assistance and participant from all our members. She has now set up a workshop for every third Saturday of each month at St. Timothy's Church. Let's all try to participate and help in this major need.

2010-2011 School Year

2009-2010 School Year Nap Blanket Delivery

At the September 2009 meeting, Gale showed us some of the Nap Blankets that had been turned in. There were 71 blankets in total. It was officially decided (by the entire membership) that this project would be on-going. Members would have a whole year to make the blankets for delivery at the start of a new year each fall.

Our first delivery day: It was a great morning at Kimberly Park Elementary. We displayed all the nap blankets around the library before the children arrived. When all the kindergarten students were seated, we told them that we had a supprise for them.

We explained that while they we enjoying their summer vacation, many women were busy sewing a nap blanket just for them. In order to get a blanket they would need to do 2 things...1) do their very best in school every day, and 2) stay in school so they could graduate from high school in 2023. They all agreed to do those 2 things. In small groups they toured the blanket display and made their decision about which blanket they wanted to select. As you can see from the smiling faces they were all very happy and said "thank you" many, many times.

Here are some of the photos at the delivery of the quilts along with their precious receivers.