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TMQ Community Outreach

Community outreach is a core value of the guild. TMQ members provide quilts to multiple local Northern Nevada recipients while creating awareness of the craft to the public. In 2023, more than 200 quilts were delivered to local charities.

Babies and Kids Quilts

Members create and donate child-size and baby quilts to a number of organizations throughout the community. Baby quilts are given to the parents of newborns when leaving the hospital. Hospitalized older children select a quilt to cuddle while at the hospital and then to take home. 

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Collaborative Quilts

These quilts are most often created with one member making the quilt top and another member quilting and finishing it.  Like many of the quilts made by the guild, the collaborative quilts are donated to skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, home health and hospice agencies, and other social services in the community. Members may receive a pieced top (or fabric for a top) in a kit that includes the batting and backing fabric for either a lap size (36”x 40”) or twin size (45”x 60”) quilt.  

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Opportunity Quilt

Each year, TMQ raffles a quilt to raise money in support of a local charity. Quilt lovers and TMQ champions are given the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for the chance to win a lovely quilt.  The 2024 Opportunity Quilt, "Sew Many Stars,” measures 61” x 76.” It was pieced by the following TMQ members of “Sew Much Fun” bee group: Cindy Scott, Pat Dutt, Carol Davidson, Cheryl Bernhardt, Marsha Egbert, Joann Kronick, and Brenda Jahnke. TMQ member Debbie Audenreid undertook the long arm quilting, and binding for the quilt was completed by Cindy Scott.
 

Raffle tickets for the quilt are sold throughout the year at various community events and the winning ticket is drawn at the December TMQ meeting. Proceeds from the 2024 raffle will be presented to OUR Place.  OUR Place/RISE, opened in June 2021, is the largest emergency housing provider for women and families in the community.  In partnership with Washoe County HSA, the organization provides shelter and wrap-around services every day for more than 138 women, 38 families, 28 seniors, and all of their animal companions.

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Local Charities Supported

  • Banner Churchill Community Hospital (Fallon, NV) 

  • Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center (Carson City, NV)

  • Circle of Life Hospice

  • Domestic Violence Resource Center

  • Down Syndrome Network of Northern Nevada

  • Eddy House (shelter for homeless youth)

  • Kid’s Kottage (emergency shelter for new foster children)

  • Moms on the Run (support for everyday expenses for women with breast/gynecological cancer)

  • Nevada Highway Patrol

  • Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation

  • Northern Nevada Sierra Medical Center

  • OUR Place (emergency housing for women and families)

  • Real Choices Women's Center (Crisis Pregnancy Center)

  • Reno Fire Department

  • Renown Home Health & Hospice

  • Renown Regional Medical Center

  • Ronald McDonald House

  • Rosewood Rehabilitation Center

  • Safe Embrace (social services for domestic/ sexual violence, human trafficking)

  • Sparks Fire Department

  • Step 2 (social services for women with substance-abuse issues)

  • Truckee Meadows Fire Department

  • Washoe County Sheriff’s Department

Get Involved

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