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Farmington Library Quilters Need Help with New Project
Area quilters are asked to contribute their time and talents to benefit military veterans in Detroit.
The Farmington Library Quilters hope to get all hands on deck for a project that will bring comfort to military veterans living in Piquette Square, a new facility in Detroit.
“We want to give them something to thank them for their service. We are calling every quilt guild and group in Southeast Michigan to help. Even some librarians have volunteered to help,” said Ruth Ann Carter, a member of the quilting project committee.
The new 150-unit facility in the New Center area of Detroit provides a wide array of services to formerly homeless veterans, including job training, educational support, substance abuse treatment and much more. The quilts will be permanent tokens of gratitude for the residents.
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The group wants to create a multicolored, scrappy design, with no definite pattern. Using four-inch squares to make a twin size quilt, volunteers are encouraged to use fabric left over from their own stashes, gathered from friends and family, or purchased from the store.
“Birthing and tying, machine or hand stitching in the ditch, machine or hand quilting, they can use whatever method they’d like. And on the back there'll be a label that reads ‘As a special thank you for all you have done for our country, this quilt is made especially for you’, signed by the quilter,” Carter said.
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The Farmington Library quilters teach a summer beginning sewing class and attend quilt shows and exhibits. They event go on “shop hops”, fabric sprees through five or six stores in one day.
The Piquette Square Veterans Quilt Project is just one of many undertaken by the 43-member group.
“When you walk into the door at Piquette Square, you can see that there is success there and that’s beautiful. The library is one of the pillars of civilization and for the library to have invited us to quilt is wonderful. It is a civilized, longstanding and community-focused thing,” said Carter.
The Farmington Library Quilters meet on the first Monday of each month, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the auditorium of the . Because of the Labor Day holiday this month, they're meeting today.
For information, or if you'd like to get involved, call 248-848-4315.
