This year we put out a notice to our little group, The Binky Patrol SC, for preemie quilts - little tiny quilts sized 20 X 20 to send home with preemies that spend their first days and weeks, sometimes months, in the NICU ~ the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. For any family that experiences this, they don't soon forget the trauma and worry and you are forever filled with gratitude when you are able to take that wonderful little bundle home with you.
Well Anita took the request to heart and we just finished taking pictures of a whopping 86 Preemie Quilts!!! Our group has never been able to send out quilts to the local NICU's - we have never had enough. All of our items for the smallest babies have normally been sent out of state to be lumped with others to make enough for other state's NICUs. This year we will be supplying these little treasures to the following hospitals - shipping out on Monday: Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte; Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital; Palmetto Baptist Hospital; Lexington Medical Center and the Medical University of SC in Charleston. SO EXCITING!!! Anita and her quilters made this possible and we are so very grateful!!! Anita is truly the most selfless and thoughtful person I have had the pleasure to know and I am so very thankful that she found our group and continues to be a part of it!
Check out the beautiful work of this group on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/binkypatrolsc/ or look to the right of this blog at the Flickr Badge and you can watch them flow through. What a wonderful blessing for the BPSC and all of the NICUs that will be served! Thank you Anita and friends!!!
I was delighted to be a part of helping Anita with making preemie quilts, I enjoyed every moment of it and I also think Anita is one of the most selfless thoughtful ppl I know. She continues to give of herself in helping make quilts for other needs to be met. I live in Newfoundland Canada and the distance between Anita myself and the other ladies does not matter when we come together with one thought in mind, quilting to help those in need. Thank you Anita, QMA and Binky Patrol for adding meaning to me life. God bless! <3 [[hugs]]
ReplyDeleteHeather Chaulk