I used to be a member of the local guild, but a couple of years ago I decided that the experience wasn't right for me any longer. During the years that I was an active guild member, I donated more than 100 quilts to their Comfort Quilts program, and was in fact the chairperson of that committee for several years. Almost all of the donation quilts went to our local domestic violence safe house. When I left the guild, I stopped making donation quilts for their Comfort Quilts program.
I've recently become aware that the guild's priorities and energies have changed, and that they are no longer meeting their commitment to the shelter. The guild hasn't made a donation of comfort quilts to the shelter for many months, although the need is as great as ever. Accordingly, last week I dropped off six donation quilts directly to the shelter, explaining that it was a private donation and that I had no affiliation with the guild. The shelter was extremely grateful for the quilts, and was very interested in receiving more.
Since I have **several** UFOs here on hand, I'm going to try to finish them all up and get them over to the shelter as soon as possible. So here's this week's completion: the last time I worked on this quilt was more than a year ago. It's now ready and waiting for a few others to be finished up, and then the next batch can be delivered.
I'm disappointed that the guild dropped the ball on this, but unfortunately I'm not surprised. In any case it will do my heart good to work up some donation quilts and get them into the hands of those who can be comforted by them. I'm tallying up this experience to my lifetime "SPIRAL" total: circling back around to the same place, but seeing it from a different perspective this time. Sigh.
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