Description
This project addresses the multi-faceted ways that quilts can benefit a community. Coconino Quilters Guild is specifically working with foster teens by providing them as well as other foster kids with quilts that become their OWN. We will highlight that and other community service work while also displaying the beautiful artwork of our local quilters.
Many thanks to Gina Darlington, Celebrate Quilts, and Coconino Quilters Guild for their support.
The Coconino Quilters Guild encourages members and guests, as a community of quilters and quilt lovers, to share their accomplishments with the group. They also have the opportunity to be part of an active caring group of people who share a love for quilting! We have members at all skill levels from beginners to accomplished quilters, with skills and interests in a wide range of quilting techniques. We have a very active Community Service Program that provides quilts to the Arizona Child Protective Services that are distributed to children as they come into the foster system. We also provide quilts, pillowcases, walker bags, glasses cases and other personal items to local assisted living facilities. The Guild gathers donated fabrics and supplies batting for members willing to donate their time and talents making these items. The Guild hosts a bi-annual quilt show at the Library as well as programs and classes throughout the year.
Project Leader: Gina Darlington has been sewing all her life. She began quilting when a dance project she was working on crossed over to pioneer quilts in 2000. Once she got a taste of it, she couldn’t get enough. Gina has had quilts juried into numerous shows both locally and nationally. She has also won awards for her quilts at the local, state and national level, including second place in the national “Thread Tails and Vapor Trails” contest. Gina has been published in Quilters Newsletter, and has designed and published patterns. Gina has been a teacher all of her life, first as a dance studio teacher, then at the college level, and most recently teaching quilting at local stores and in the community, and at camps and retreats.
