Community Service Projects

Red River Quilters has been reaching out to our local community since the guild’s formation in 1983.  There is quite a variety of service project opportunities for our members.  All participation is voluntary – and completely appreciated!  Here’s a list of how we help (Scroll down to learn more):

 

  • Love Wrappers

  • Comfort Caps for Cancer Patients

  • Ronald McDonald House Pop Tabs

 

 

Do you have a service project you’d like to propose to the guild?  Contact any Board member to find a place for your project.

Love Wrappers

Contact person: Cathy Ward

 

Love Wrappers is dedicated to providing love and comfort to babies, children and teens in need through quilts.   Guild members produce literally hundreds of these quilts every year.  Fabric and batting donations (as well as the July social fundraiser) support this project. 

 

Quilt kits are available at every guild meeting for members to pick up, complete at their own pace, and return at a subsequent meeting.  The kit includes everything needed to complete the quilt.  However, it is not necessary to complete the entire quilt as other volunteers can do the quilting and/or binding.    Guild members may also use fabric from their stash to make a Love Wrapper.   

 

Local hospitals and care facilities such as the Oschner/LSU Critical Care / Medical Center,  Christus/Highland Medical Center,  the Cara Center, Gingerbread House and the Ark-La-Tex Crisis Pregnancy Center.  Quilts are also given to other organizations when special needs arise.

  

Volunteers are always needed as there are many tasks not listed here.  You may contact Cathy Ward to find out where you can be best utilized.  Tasks include sewing, washing completed quilts, cutting, delivering to hospitals and many others. 

 

 There is always room for more helping hands on this project!  

Comfort Caps for Cancer Patients

Contact person: Cathy Callaway

 

Comfort Caps’ purpose is making life easier and more comfortable for the cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy.  Comfort Caps provide resources that enable cancer patients to take positive, comforting measures for themselves, thereby empowering patients at a time when so much feels out of their control.

Since 2010, more than 3,500 hats have been freely given to chemo patients at CHRISTUS Cancer and Willis-Knighton Cancer Centers in Shreveport, LA.  Comfort Caps are hats going to the patient, not the patient going to the hats.  These are more than just hats, each one represents hope and connects people to each other is a unique way, to say “I Care”.

If you want to become involved in making caps, “ready to sew” kits are available at every guild meeting.  This kit is four pieces that takes about 15 minutes to sew. 

Ronald McDonald House Pop Tabs

Contact person: Donna Judd

 

Pop tabs are being collected to support bringing the first Ronald McDonald House to Shreveport-Bossier coming in 2025.

RRQ guild members collect the tabs from aluminum soda cans.

(Please note: Only tabs from aluminum soda cans are accepted for recycling. Tabs from canned soup, vegetables and others do not qualify.)