Preparing for the 2026 Quilt Give away

With the 2026 charity quilt give away coming up on Saturday the 14th, I needed to get prepared.

On Sunday I asked the men to bring back down the quilts that they had so generously taken up!

Then, I gave away a few quilts to people who came to church on Sunday and I thought they needed them.

Here are those people.

I went back on Thursday (yesterday if you are reading this on Friday) to set up the church the rest of the way for the quilts. I will have more help on Saturday, but don’t want to wait til Friday (the day you are reading this) or Saturday morning to set it up, so I went on Thursday to make it better. There will be some more last minutes things to do before we start giving them away at 10 am but it’s not so much now.

I’ll be giving away probably only about 80 quilts, so it is a lot less than last time which was 180 quilts!!! Big difference!

I gave the coupons to a lady who has helped me for several years in giving out the coupons to various people. She works for one of our local social agencies. To say I couldn’t do it without her might be an exaggeration, but she knows better than I do who actually needs them as they have a pretty good grasp on the situation of people’s needs. They also know who already gets a lot of help.

So these are some pictures in process of preparing the room for the give away on the day ahead of time. Hopefully I’ll get my son to take pics on Sat. morning before we start with his fish eye lens which gets it all in one shot!

Right before I left on Thursday I took a quick video so you could see it better, possibly. Here it is.

What we do is get the coupons from the people when they come in the door and tell them they can have “so and so number” of quilts. Then then walk in and choose which ones they want from the ones laid out on the chairs. Then after they leave, helpers will replenish the chairs that are empty. We will start out with 56 options. That’s enough for people to choose from.

 
 

I’ll give you more updates on Monday, after the give away is over!

Thank you all so much if you have helped with this endeavor!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

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