Members of the Omaha Quilters’ Guild create quilts for people in need to provide warmth or comfort, and we create quilts to honor an individual. When needed we make pillowcases and stockings. Our guild members also create quilts to be raffled as fundraisers, most often to raise funds for medical reasons. Quilt recipients are identified by various agencies and organizations, as well as through teachers, social workers, and our guild members. Check out the committees listed below that are part of OQG’s Good Works.
These committees can always use a hand with piecing blocks, sewing tops, quilting, binding, and making pillowcases and stockings. Quilters may pull fabrics from their own stash or use fabrics available to the committee – as budgeted or through donations to our guild.
Click the headings below for more info and then contact the committee chair via the email provided to find out how you can help. They will all touch your heart!
Helping Hands
Our Helping Hands committee creates quilts for babies, children, teens and adults – babies in the NICU, youth at risk, patients in hospice, and families affected by life-changing events. This committee also donates quilts for fundraisers and supports our other Good Works committees by contributing quilts, pillowcases, and stockings. If you know someone who would find comfort in a “quilt hug,” a quilt for a fundraiser, or you just want more info, contact Angie Reed at helpinghands@omahaquiltersguild.org.
Children’s Emergency Fund (CEF)
The Children’s Emergency Fund was established to reach out to children in foster care, ensuring that children in the foster care system, especially at the holidays, are not forgotten. Guild members make stockings, donate gifts for the children, draw for donated items in a mini raffle, and then after dinner, raise their bid cards to try to outbid each other on beautiful quilts and quilted items in a competitive, yet friendly, live auction. For more information concerning this annual project contact Debbie McMillin at cef@omahaquiltersguild.org.
Quilts for Veterans
Quilts for Veterans focuses on presenting quilts to local US Military Veterans who are nominated by a family member, friend, or loved one. The committee chair works closely with the Omaha VA Medical Center and the Eastern Veterans’ Home to identify our ‘local heroes’. To nominate a recipient or for more info contact Kerby Selmer at quiltsforvets@omahaquiltersguild.org.
Boys Town Mothers’ Guild Small Group
OQG’s Boys Town Mothers’ Guild Small Group focuses on quilts for fundraising and for youth and staff recognition at Boys Town. If you are interested in joining the Mothers’ Guild of Boys Town, contact Yvonne Wilson mothersguild@omahaquiltersguild.org.
Organizations helped through Omaha Quilters’ Guild and Helping Hands include:
- Boys Town
- CHI Health at Home
- CHI Hospice
- Children’s Hospital (NICU)
- College of St. Mary’s (Fundraiser)
- Eastern Nebraska Veterans’ Home (Quilts for Veterans)
- Habitat for Humanity
- Josie Harper Residence (aka Hospice House Omaha)
- Omaha Public Schools
- Omaha Home for Boys (e.g., Inspiration Hill Residential Living, Jacobs’ Place Transitional Living, Branching Out Independent Living, Youth Mart)
- Omaha Police Department’s Special Olympics (Fundraiser)
- Ronald McDonald House
- United Way of the Midlands
- Youth Emergency Services (YES)