Wrap A Smile Quilts

West coast coordinator Charlotte recently met up with Christine of Piece by Piece Quilters .  And look what she brought back for Wrap-A-Smile !  New to our network, these generous ladies have now shared 40 quilts with us for upcoming missions.  A silver lining to the work we do is the friendships that grow right along with the piles of quilts.  Giving a big welcome here to new friend Christine and her colleagues!   Christine is the donation coordinator for her guild located in Morgan Hill, CA, which quilts strictly for charity.  They live by the mantra “from patchwork to community”.  Isn’t that a great description?! More information about their guild can be found here:  https://piecebypiecequilters.com/ It’s always fun to pick up quilts in person, especially with groups, as it gives us an opportunity to share more about the life-changing work of Rotaplast.  And of course we love giving thanks in person.  Stories and hugs abound! If our...

 Our village grows! This week I received a surprise shipment of quilts from Cotton Rose Quilt Guild in Alabama.  After unpacking a fun variety of quilts I decided it would be fun to share the show.  Blocks are contributed by a variety of guild members, with Melodie doing much of the assembly and Liz finishing with her long arm. Thank you, ladies!  So glad you found us…. Collaborative efforts….teams of generous quilters….are the backbone of how we keep the Rotaplast medical missions supplied.  With help from so many, we continue to make sure that every patient is wrapped in a hand-made quilt at the time of their life-changing surgery.  And of course patients come in various sizes so we encourage quilts in a variety of sizes as well.  To review, Wrap-A-Smile can use quilts as small as 36” x 45” ,  up to 45” x 60” as comfort quilts for the older patients. ENJOY THE SHOW Thank you, ALL What a wonderful village we have!! Gratefully, ~Ann

 I had the pleasure of meeting Kim from New York who dropped off 80 quilts to me last week! She is part of the Zion Methodist Church quilting group, a prolific bunch of women who have been donating quilts to Wrap-A-Smile for many years now!  Thank you for the lovely summer surprise!  They are gorgeous and you all are wonderful.                                                                                                             -Paige       

I was the happy recipient of 26 quilts recently from quilters in Maine, Florida and Massachusetts. See their lovely, handmade creations below.   This lead me to check out Rotaplast's website  to look at the mission photographs and to see if I could locate any of my quilts in the photos of the children.   Rotaplast medical teams and volunteers have been to two locations in Bangladesh, the Philippines, Egypt and Colombia already this year and treated hundreds of children with cleft palate corrections and burn surgeries.  There are two missions to India this fall.   Each of these adorable children received a quilt, handmade by YOU, to keep after their surgery.  They are indeed "wrapped in a smile!"   Although I could not find any photo evidence of quilts I made in the photos, I did see a lot of quilts that I packed to send to Rotaplast.  It is so exciting to know that something beautifully handmade that passed through my hands fro...

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      ...