Wrap A Smile Quilts

Connections and teamwork cause good things to happen! A few weeks ago I was contacted by a Rotarian in Pennsylvania whom I had met pre-pandemic.  Remembering that I had attended her talk about the life-changing work of Rotaplast teams who "Save Smiles and Change Lives",  she was hoping that Wrap-A-Smile might have a quilt to donate for their fall auction, a fundraiser to support more surgeries.  Our quilts usually go directly to a child in need, but with the quilter's permission we sometimes share a quilt for fundraising.  Within hours of my posting this request to my friends in the Online Sunshine Quilt Guild , we were offered many quilts. And after some friendly voting we ended up with not one, but TWO fabulous quilts! What a generous network of quilters! Many thanks to Sue T of Anacortes, WA, for creating the Blue with White Stars quilt, and to Deb W of MI for sharing Happy Kids Driving Trucks.  I'd love to be a fly on the wall when these quilts are auction...

One of the joys of being involved with Wrap-A-Smile has been the opportunity to meet amazing new friends.  Quilters have to be among the most generous groups of people I have ever met.  And the network of connections is how we get things done! Looking again at yesterday's Rotaplast blog from Colombia, my eye kept returning to the blue and yellow quilt....not to mention that happy smiling face, and the balloon.... Looking through my records I found the quilt and remembered its backstory.  One of WAS's most prolific contributors, Jackie from Maine, mentioned that her sister Karen (a new quilter) was "looking for things to do". I suggested she might like to make one of the WAS kits of simple squares.  Well not only was that a success, but she asked for more....and more!  Eventually I started sending her other simple combinations, to get her feedback on what other kit ideas we might use.  The blue and yellow quilt was a result.  Having shared this story w...