Wrap A Smile Quilts

I will be attending the Maine Quilt Show on Saturday, July 26th in Augusta.  If you would like to arrange to drop off quilt donations for Wrap-A-Smile on that Friday, please contact me at my email, wrapasmileNE@gmail.com.  I'd love to meet you there and receive your creations!  Paige Curtis NE Coordinator Here is some information on the show! Pine Tree Quilters Guild, Inc. invites you to Maine Quilts 2025! We will bring together over 500 quilts, workshops, events and activities to inspire you whether you’re an experienced quilter, beginner or an admirer of this art form. We hope this show provides quilters the opportunity to learn and grow among friends. We look forward to seeing you July 24-26, 2025 in the air-conditioned Augusta Civic Center, 76 Community Dr., Augusta, Maine. Maine Quilt Show -click here for more details

Wrap-A-Smile is pleased to announce that Mary Takle in Menahga,   Minnesota, has become one of our Regional Coordinators!  Mary will be happy to collect quilts made for the Rotaplast medical missions, and looks forward to promoting WAS in the upper Midwest.  We are so happy to now how representation in this part of the country. Our quilters in her area will certainly save on shipping costs.  Welcome Mary! 💞 Speaking of shipping costs, we do promote the use of PirateShip.com which offers a significant savings over regular USPS and UPS shipping rates.  Disclaimer: we are not affiliated in any way, we just want to help you save shipping money….so that you can buy more fabric!! 😉 PirateShip will ask dimensions of the package, and weight. Then you will print your own label at home. Bathroom scales work well, and are quite accurate if you weigh yourself first, then weigh yourself holding the package. The difference is the weight of the box. Round up slightly if...

When I agreed to take over leadership of Wrap-A-Smile several years ago, our founder (and my mentor) Terry said the first thing I must do is join the Sunshine Online Quilt Guild .   So I did, and I have been forever grateful! This group of generous, creative, supportive quilters have been sharing quilts with us for over 20 years. Many of the quilts are collaborative efforts…individual blocks made by some, tops completed by others, and then the final finishing or long arming completed by others. As they say, “it takes a village”….and what a wonderful village we have! Today’s gallery of quilts arrived in a surprise package last evening.  I know some of the quilts came from Sunshine’s monthly “block lotto”.  Quilters from around the country send in blocks bimonthly, with themes that vary from year to year. Blocks are distributed to lotto “winners”, and then others jump in to help turn these fun blocks into quilts.     ENJOY THE QUILT SHOW      ...

An explosion of color! I was thrilled to receive and open three, huge boxes, full of colorful, happy, joyful quilts!  Thank you to our friends at Zion United Methodist Church in New York for their beautiful handmade quilts.  They will be on their way to California and off to children around the world soon with upcoming Rotoplast missions.  We appreciate all of you who donate to Wrap-A-Smile!   -Paige    Spring! Rainbows! Smiles!  

I just received word that Rotaplast has more upcoming missions than I had realized….but now they are running low on quilts! 😳   Yikes, we can’t let that happen!  When Terry founded Wrap-A-Smile , she pledged that every Rotaplast patient going forward would be wrapped in a hand-made quilt at the time of their life-changing surgery. And for over 20 years we have met her challenge! Let’s keep it going!! It’s time to rev up your machines and spread the word among your friends.  This is also a great opportunity to bring more quilters into our network. Let’s share the joy! As many of you know, when the pandemic struck and medical missions were put on hold, we had a generous supply of quilts put into storage.  But missions have resumed, and are increasing in number each year.  Almost all of those stored quilts are now providing love in their forever homes…and we need to resupply! A favorite size for smaller patients is 40 x 48-ish, with quilts up to 60 in length for ...

Ann recently blogged that we are now well-supplied with WAS quilts for the next year.  Part of the reason for her grateful post that is that we received a shipment of 40 gorgeous, colorful quilts from the sewists at Zion United Methodist Church in Macedon, New York just this week!   I had so much fun opening this "present" and thinking about the joy they will bring to the Rotaplast patients worldwide!   Wrap-A-Smile remains ever appreciative of your quilted in love donations.           -Paige

It’s time to celebrate a victory lap as we thank all of our wonderful, generous quilters who have helped us uphold a longtime pledge.  When our founder Terry Hodskins dreamed of the Wrap-A-Smile mission, she pledged that we would make sure that every future Rotaplast patient would be wrapped in a handmade quilt at the time of their surgery.  Twenty three years later, we are still meeting that goal. When the Covid pandemic struck, stalling overseas medical missions, we faced an uncertain future.  When would the Rotaplast doctors be able to resume providing care…..?  If we stopped collecting quilts, would our network remember WAS when we someday needed quilts again? Fortunately the medical teams are back traveling the world, and every time we worry about whether we will have enough quilts, a surprise delivery arrives.  Generosity and goodness abound! With heartfelt thanks I can report that we are now well supplied with WAS quilts well into the next year! Thank yo...