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Outreach
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Forida Today
August 17,2011 |
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 Volunteers 
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This is an program to share quilting with our community. Our major focus is working with The Kids Quilt Project which teaches quilting to students of all ages in schools, organizations and summer quilt camps. Volunteers work one-on-one with students, showing them how to operate sewing machines and to assemble quilts. At the elementary school level, the quilts are made by groups of children who donate their projects to charities for children. They also make a small individual project to keep. High school students are taught to cut their own fabrics, adapt quilt designs to suit their purposes, and then they work in pairs and produce quilts for charitable purposes.Summer camps are held at Trinity Presbyterian Church and Cocoa Beach Library where children are taught to use a sewing machine and produce a personal quilt. In the summer of 2009, 57 children participated in three camps which had projects geared for beginners, intermediates, and advanced campers who return every summer.
Volunteers have also held workshops for teachers to assist them in learning the basics of quilting so that they can conduct their own quilt projects in the middle and high schools. |
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