The Grand One Quilt Bee (the bee I belong to in Grand Rapids, MI) will be quilting tops for Margaret’s Hope Chest this year, and with luck we’ll finish enough of them that we have time to make some quilts of our own for them.
The group was founded by the granddaughter of Margaret Herrema. In April 2005, at the age of 81, Ms. Herrema was robbed of her purse, and pushed to the ground where she suffered a head injury. She died two days later.
In her memory, her granddaughter Carin Vogelzang founded Margaret’s Hope Chest. The group makes and receives handmade quilts from quilters and others and distributes them to those in need of hope through a network of agencies including the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army.
If you’d like to help out, just follow the links in my article.
If the weather cooperates and I’m able to make it, I’ll post some pictures of our first quilting day, which should be Saturday Jan. 16.
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