Preparing for the 2020 Quilt Give-away

I decided it was time for our Give-Away! March 14 is the designated time for it. That’s Saturday - this coming Saturday!

have a couple of people who are going to help me. I am so happy about that.

We set up the quilts at the church on Sunday after church. The guys brought them all down from the room where I was storing them. We set one on each chair and the extras are in a couple of different rooms. Once someone takes a quilt, we will add a new one to that chair. That way the chairs will stay full.

On Monday (the day this is being published), I will take some of these coupons to the social services agency. I set up the coupons with the date for this year - it wasn’t too hard as I had already made the “coupon” in years past.

I do this so that I can control how many people will show up. I print out about the same number of coupons as I have quilts. That way I can be reasonably sure that we won’t have too many people come for quilts and run out. That would be awful!

I’m adding these photos on Monday - the day of the post.

I went to the social services building and put some coupons there. I also made up a little sort of poster and put some in front of our church building and I put a poster of them in front of our house. We have many people who walk by our house who live in a house housing development area down the road from us. I figure if at least one of them will see it and take one home, the word will spread and they will all get taken. I will go back on Wed. to the social services place and put some more out. Next time I’ll go early in the morning - today I went about noon Polish time.

I made up 2 sort of posters with these coupons on them and put one on the church’s gate and on our own fence.

I realized I could do this one better - I’ll go back on Tuesday to check on this one and fix it as needed. This is in front of the church.

I made this one better than the other one by stapling those coupons on there. Hopefully some of the walkers and bike riders will see them! This one is on our fence.

This time, all of the quilts are singles - and I added the size to the coupon so people will not come looking for the large sizes. I just didn’t get any of the large ones finished for this time.

Here we are - set up. I will go back to the building on Friday and turn up the heat so it is warm in the building. Then Saturday about 9:30, I’ll go on over to the building with my camera and be ready to greet people.

The only requirement I have from people in order to get this quilt is that they allow me to take a picture of them with the quilt. If a social worker takes them, they will hold the quilts. I do that so I have a record of doing this should the government ask for more details or proof that we are actually doing this.

Sometimes - often - in fact, organizations get people to sign that they get stuff. Actually to me, signatures mean little to nothing. But the happy smiles are a lot.

Here is the building as it is set up.

Here are some of the extra quilts - they are ready to put on the emptied chairs as people take them.

I will certainly be curious how all the “browns” from the Big Fabric Haul” go. You can probably see at least a few of them in these pictures!

So, this is one of the things I have going on this week! Life for me, does involve more than quilting on my machine or the website, or the Facebook group. I have other responsibilities which may or may not be mentioned.

Have a great day wherever you are!

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Be sure to check out what my sis has for you in the store!

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