Hurricane Sandy – 5000 Quilt Challenge – Update

Many thanks to all of you who are working on quilts, or who have just shipped out quilts for our massive Hurricane Sandy quilt relief project.

The link for this project is on the LOWER LEFT of the eQuilter Home
Page, in case you need to pull up the information on a mobile device.

Please read through the guidelines carefully before sending us a question or before shipping a quilt.

The Timeless Treasures
warehouse is preparing for the huge wave of packages to start arriving
this coming week.
Their staff will be processing all of the thousands of packages –
opening, sorting, safely storing, then staging to send them out to our
trusted organizations who will personally distribute the quilts.

The owners of Timeless are still without power, as are most of our
industry contacts on the East Coast.
We hope to get as many bed-sized quilts out to the hurricane victims, as
SOON as possible, but the project will go on for three months and
perhaps beyond.

Mission of Love is gearing
up to take a truck full of relief supplies to the East Coast, and we are
about to post a challenge grant so you can donate to MOL via Paypal to
help fund this part of our relief effort – watch for details on Facebook
and my Tuesday night Creative Nudge enewsletter.

Victoria Findlay-Wolfe is also helping us to identify distribution points in the NYC and metro area.

There are MANY relief efforts well underway now, and I want to be clear
that ANY effort that you support is just fantastic! We are not "in
competition" with any of them – but we do want to caution you to make
sure you are giving to an authentic and reputable group.
In the past we've seen there have been a few people who take advantage
of these events for their own gain, so just be sure whoever you work
with is a known entity.

Over the years, working with Mission of Love, we've distributed 10,000 comfort quilts for relief efforts after 9/11, Haiti, Katrina, the Japan tsunami, Colorado Fires, and other smaller projects for various orphanages and other disaster relief.

We have a LOT of experience with this volume of quilts, and our main
focus is treating the quilts with the very special respect and value
that they deserve.
It is just not the same as handing out blankets.
It is a very special gift of love when a person who has lost everything –
receives a handmade gift of love from a stranger.

Be sure to check our project page for updates, and feel free to share this link!

We now have SIX new videos from the awards ceremony and winners at the Houston Quilt Festival.

Be sure to check them out – ENJOY!