Concord Piecemakers Community Service
Concord Piecemakers is a 501(c) organization.
February Quiltathon
Our annual February meeting is devoted to creating quilts which will provide comfort to those in homeless shelters, cancer patients, victims of fire and domestic crises, and others. Those quilts which are not finished during our day-long Quiltathon are passed to our comfort quilt groups which meet once a month.
Comfort Quilts
Throughout the year, members meet to work together on Comfort Quilts. Fabric is donated by members and by helpful quilt shops. Groups meet either in the morning or evenings on a monthly basis. Also, kits are made up and completed by the rest of the membership at home. Between the Quiltathon quilts and those made by the comfort quilt groups during the year, 100 quilts annually are donated to charity.
We have 3 comfort quilt groups: one meets in the morning, another meets in the evening and a third emphasizes machine piecing and quilting. Please see the latest newsletter to determine the meeting days, times, and places.
Click here for quilt assembly instructions
Sewing Kits
We are putting together sewing kits for those in need. Please contact Alice Wiggin if you can donate any of the following items:
ConKerr Cancer Pillowcases
We currently assembling 100 pillowcases. Click here for pillowcase instructions
Community Recipients
Would you like to help with one of our community service projects? Below are just some of the organizations we support. There is one which fits just about anyone's favorite charity or stash!
- Bethke Cancer Center Emerson Hospital, Concord Road, Concord, MA 01742
- Lap Size Quilts -No larger than 50X60 inches for adults: men & women, prefer machine quilted items
- Contact Person - SuzAnne Weisenbloom
- Childrens Hospital Boston, Rhonda Galpern, Outreach Manager, New England Quilt Museum, 978-452-4207
- Quilts - any size - brights - childrens themes
- Contact Person - Kristin Bartelson
- ConKerr Cancer Organization
- Pillowcases - brights - childrens themes, Contact Maura Cain for specific instructions
- Contact Person - Maura Cain
- Families in Transition, Nashua, NH
- Quilts - Children or Adult
- Contact Person - Eloise Newell
- Parmenter Community Health Care, Wayland, MA, POC Cynthia Mayher, 508-358-3000
- Quilts - Twin Size - Adult
- Contact Person - Kristin Bartelson
- Project Linus, Rhonda Galpern, Outreach Manager, New England Quilt Museum, 978-452-4207
- Quilts - no specific size -brights - childrens themes
- Contact Person - Kristin Bartelson
- The Sharing Foundation. P.O. Box 600, Concord, MA 01742, 978-505-1302, www.sharingfoundation.org
- Organization supports a orphanage in Cambodia. Dr. Nancy Hendrie a local physician delivers the items.
- Quilts - Dorm Bed for Teenage Girls - 40 x 80
- Contact Person - Shirley Weinberg
Add Another Recipient
If you are a member of the Concord Piecemakers and would like to add another organization to support, please make out the following form and submit it to our current Outreach Committee Chairperson.