Thursday, October 2, 2014

Allie, Caitlin and Brylee

We just got a great letter from Marie Crook, who had triplet girls this past July. After a long stay in the NICU, the three girls are home with their family.

"I would love to say thank you for these amazing quilts and I use them everyday. They are absolutly beautiful and will be given to them for when they become older. Thank you for being so thoughtful. Love the Crook Family"

Look at these adorable girls.







Thursday, September 18, 2014

Also, thank you to Kellie Toothman who is back in touch with Wrap Them in Roses after sewing quilts for Keira in the past. Thank you for re-engaging with us - your 10 kits should arrive today!

I put together 15 kits in the process and mailed off 10, meaning I've got 5 ready for someone's TLC. Whose ready?

The Material Girls are back!

I just got word from Mary Jane Handy from the Material Girls Guild up in Leominster that they would like to make more quilts this season. They made SOOOO many last year and we are thrilled that they've chosen us again for their charity sewing initiative. We are so grateful. I've sent 50 labels your way Mary Jane. Thank you!

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Another amazing set of quilts from Hillie!

Thank you so much for donating fabric and time Hillie. You are an amazing contributor to this initiative :)

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Wrap Them in Roses Sewing Event - Thank you Kate Wellen!

Kate Wellen, one of our active quilt volunteers, organized an event for this past Monday in Marlborough, MA. She took 30 kits with her and we are excited to see how this event turned out. Thank you so much Kate for thinking of Wrap Them in Roses for your sewing guild, we hope everything went well on Monday. :)

64 quilts!!! Thank you Material Girls!


Thank you Concetta for dropping off the 64 quilts that your wonderful mother, Mary Jane, and the  Leominster Material Girls Quilting Guild made earlier this year.  I can't believe that you guys were able to produce this many quilts in essentially a one day workshop. We are SOOO grateful for this contribution. This definitely is the largest quilt donation by a single entity so far, by far!  You are so generous and we look forward to continuing to work with you :) Thank you so much.


Saturday, March 1, 2014

New kits

Great deal at Joann Fabrics. 22 new kits with adorable fabric. Whose ready for a kit???

Thursday, February 27, 2014

New Recipient

Going forward, we will be donating quilts to UMASS Memorial Hospital in Worcestor, MA, in addition to Boston's Childrens Hospital. This is great news and we are looking forward to making our first donation there in March.

Bags and Resources

Thank you Keira for mailing the supplies for Wrap Them in Roses. Going forward, we will deliver the quilts to the hospital packaged in the purple Zoe Rose Memorial Foundation bag along with some educational and support materials for the baby's family. This is a big improvement over the plastic bag full of quilts presentation to Children's hopsital in December. Thank you for this, we are moving up in the world!

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Four more quilts from Hillie

Hillie contributed four more quilts, two from our kits and two from her own donations. Take a look at an example of her beautiful work. These are real treasures Hillie, thank you so much!

Keira's drop off at Baptist Hospital

Last week, Keira did a quilt drop off at Baptist Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. She snapped a few photos of the event for the blog. Here they are. Thank you Keira for doing this drop off!




Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Keira is heading to Baptist with quilts tomorrow

Keira Sorrells, the founder of the Zoe Rose Memorial Foundation (Wrap Them in Roses' parent) is heading to Baptist Hospital tomorrow with a batch of quilts made by our volunteers. The quilts that are made in Massachussetts go to Children's Hospital and those outside of Massachusetts go to Mississippi. Thank you for making the delivery Keira, I hope it all goes well tomorrow :)

Material Girls Quilting Guild Sewing Event

The Material Girls event took place last Saturday up in Leominster (pronounced Lemonstir, I learned) and it was fantastic. Over 20 sewers attended the FULL DAY affair, they all brought a potluck lunch for between the morning and afternoon work sessions. They rented out a great work space in the New Life Church and they went into production! It was serious business, they had kits all ready, the sewing station, the cutting station, the ironing station all very organized. I was so impressed with both the thought and organization that went into the event as well as the attitude and kindness of the volunteers. I cannot thank this group enough for spending an entire day making Wrap Them in Roses quilts. And a special, special thanks to Mary Jane Handy for making the whole thing happen. I am looking forward to hearing what the final tally was. Thank you again Material Girls Quilters!

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Thrilled to be working with Judy Weinberg from Temple Beth Shalom

I just got word from Judy Weinberg who is the social action co-chair at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham that they will be sewing quilts for Wrap Them in Roses on their day of service titled Tikkun Olam Day. Tikkun Olam, as translated from the Hebrew, 'Repair the World Day' is a day where members of the Temple engage in different types of community service projects to support literacy, homelessness and hunger. It all sounds really exciting and she has been involved in years past.  Last year a hearty group of young and veteran sewers made 22 'lap buddies' for preschoolers in special education programs. This year Tikkun Olam is celebrated on April 6, 2014 and as she said it, she believes that the 'Zoe Rose project lends itself well to the spirit of our special day of service'. Thank you again Judy for reaching out, we are really excited to be involved in Tikkun Olam :)