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CCQ donates quilts for Rotary fundraiser

Quilt donated to Wilsonville RotaryThis week CCQ donated three instructor-made quilts to Rotary Club of Wilsonville to auction at their Heart of Gold Dinner & Auction on February 23rd. Heart of Gold is a fundraiser for Rotary activities including Through A Child’s Eyes, a program Rotary sponsors in partnership with the Oregon Department of Corrections. Each year, Rotary holds two TACE events at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility — a winter event where moms and kids do fun activities and enjoy a visit with Santa Claus, and a summer event where the moms and kids take part in crafts, games and an outdoor barbecue inside the facility. Women incarcerated at CCCF must earn the right to be included in the TACE program through good behavior. Coffee Creek Quilters also participates in the summer TACE program by offering a crafts table at the two-day event.

CCQ kit-makers meet

kit making committeeCCQ’s kit-making volunteers meet periodically to put together quilt kits for our students’ first and second quilts. It’s a fun activity where we have the opportunity to get together with other quilters and explore our creative abilities with color and design.

Each kit includes a pattern, fabric and thread. First quilt patterns introduce basic concepts and include rectangular shapes. Second quilt patterns build skills by introducing half square triangles and other more advanced techniques.

We welcome donations of 100% quilting cotton (minimum 1-yard lengths), thread and quilting notions. We also welcome cash donations to help us purchase solid color and tone-on-tone “blender” fabrics.

Meet our volunteers: Theresa Eggleston

Theresa Eggleston

Theresa Eggleston’s membership in Coffee Creek Quilters goes back to 2002, the year Koko Sutton founded our program and recruited her as an instructor. Theresa remembers the early days when there was just one quilting class and six sewing machines at CCCF. At first instructors brought fabric from home and used their own favorite patterns. We’ve grown considerably since then; today we have four weekly classes, twenty sewing machines, a nice fabric stash, and a collection of tested classroom patterns. Theresa retired as an instructor this year, so we honored her at our December brunch/meeting. Theresa and Mary Ann McCammon, pictured at left, plan to write Coffee Creek Quilters’ history next year.