Cloth For Kids - C4K

Quilts, Quilts and more quilts!

In the first photo, the pile on the cart is quilt tops ready to be paired with the backing. Second photo showing just a few of many quilts that are completed and ready to be picked up by one of our community liasons, to be distributed to children in need.

Each year we make and donate hundreds of quilts. Literally hundreds! They are all distributed to children who need them for whatever reason. We don't ask the reasons, we're just happy to know that a child will be all the warmer with one of our quilts! ❤

The quilts are all made with donated fabrics, and when we run low on specific fabrics that we may need for the quilts, we buy it. Thankfully that doesn't happen all that often!

How does a person write a about a woman who has done so much for so many for over 24 years?

Our founder and Director Edna Poncelet announced her retirement last year. So we had alot of time to consider what she has done for many people. She started Cloth for Kids with barely any fabric and only a small handful of volunteers to assist her (a few of them are still with us today!). But she had the will to make the lives of so many children better, even if it's only in a small way. And she did.

We gathered recently to celebrate Edna and her husband Lorne who has unfailingly supported her and Cloth for Kids these many years. There were over 50 of us there and many memories were shared! One of the ladies at the luncheon was the community volunteer at the very first school that Cloth for Kids provided quilts and clothing and other items and she shared her story of meeting Edna. Later on, she was one of many to nominate Edna for the Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal, which Edna received in 2018.

Many happy tears were shed, memories shared, speeches of gratitude and so much more! It was a happy day and one that none of us, especially Edna, will soon forget!

Edna hasn't left us entirely though, as she has a special talent that few others have - Machine Specialist Extraordinaire! She's the Machine Whisperer!

To celebrate the holiday season, another successful year and a 99th birthday, all of our volunteers met for sewing in the morning today, then a veritable feast of a wonderful pot luck lunch! So much good food!

And if that wasn't enough, we brought in a cake to celebrate the 99th birthday of one of our longest serving volunteers!

We'll be back in January after a much needed break!