Community Giving | ConejoValleyQuilters

Creating Community Giving Quilts

The Conejo Valley Quilters has provided Quilts and cash to nonprofits in the Conejo Valley, thanks to our generous members and others in the community who support our work.

The CVQ Guild supports organizations that are annually nominated, voted, approved by Guild members.

The following are the currently approved organizations:

Remember quilting a quilt for our "Community Giving" program is a great opportunity to fine tune your quilting skills. You can either free-motion quilt, straight line quilt or a combination of both techniques.

Pat Anderson

Barri Breeden

JAMES STOREHOUSE' 10TH ANNUAL "BACK TO SCHOOL" BASH

James Storehouse contacted Conejo Valley Quilters in mid May asking if it would be possible for Conejo Valley Quilters to help them with this year’s “Back to School Bash 2024”. The guild provides quilts to two chosen local charities each year. One is James Storehouse, which serves foster children and young adults in the community.

Each year, James Storehouse holds an event to provide brand new shoes, backpacks, school supplies and quilts to the foster children they serve, as well as young adult who have aged out of foster care. CVQ put out the word to our members and Cotton & Chocolate Quilt Company, as well as reach out to the surrounding community through our website and social media. Quilters from the entire community busily finished quilts they had started and completed many more from scratch. Members of the community dropped off their quilts at Cotton & Chocolate at our July 1 workshop and on two Wednesdays: July 17 and July 24. On those last two dates, there were constant streams of quilters who came in to donate their quilts, and many talked with us. They were eager to participate and help the community. One quilter donated 26 quilts.

In less than 8 weeks, our Community Giving Program collected 190 quilts, 4 backpacks, 8 reading pillows and 22 pillowcases from guild members and other quilters in the community! A special thank you goes to Marilyn and Jerry Peterson and the staff of Cotton & Chocolate Quilt Company, who helped spread the word and provided a great collection site.

It truly takes a village to achieve results like this. The success of this event wouldn’t have been possible without the many CVQ members who contributed their time, efforts and quilts they made. They include the following (apologies if a name has been inadvertently omitted): Barri Breeden, Rena Holmes, Kathy Dobner, Janet Hinderer, Lynn Jurss, Alison Rowe, Charlene Van Ommeren, Cindy Nirenberg, Julie Snow, Monica Sayre, Laura Murphy, Barbara Magnuson, Chris Cole, Peggie Eichhorn, Pat Anderson.

Reading Pillows

We have a couple of pillow forms remaining for Many Mansions reading pillows. You will find the pattern, by Single Girl's DIY, by clicking on the picture!

Check Out What CVQ Members Have Made For Our Two Charities!

Our second annual Community Giving Quilt Presentation took place Monday, OCTOBER 16, 2023 at the

Thousand Oaks Grant R. Brimhall Library

Please go to our Photo Gallery HERE for pictures of the event.

Conejo Valley Quilters and their guests gathered for an afternoon of friendship. Our "Second Annual Quilt Presentation to MANY MANSIONS and JAMES STOREHOUSE" took place at our October 16 General Meeting. All of the quilts in Monday’s presentation during the in-person guild meeting at the Thousand Oaks Library have been delivered to Many Mansions and James Storehouse. Pat Anderson and Barri Breeden dropped off nearly 50 quilts to Angie Milne, Community Engagement Coordinator for Many Mansions, and another nearly 50 to Elizabeth Crisp, Donations Manager at James Storehouse.

CVQ's "Village Quilt Project"

CVQ members continue to work on the "Village Quilt Project." To date, two large quilts have been completed. Blocks are being collected to be put together into additional quilts with a house theme—clusters of colorful houses and trees with a village feel. These quilts will be donated to Many Mansions (visit manymansions.org for information on the organization) for residents living in and moving into their affordable housing units in the local area. The house motif is designed to provide a warm welcome and a feeling of home to recipients. We would love to make as many "Village Quilts" as possible and therefore invite all members to keep making those blocks! You can find instructions by clicking HERE.