Nila Rezac
Jeanie Lubitz
Nancy Hudgins
(Thanks for Linda Peterson for the pictures on this page.)
Each winter season, a group of Winter Ranch residents meet
once a week to make quilts and other items to be donated to various
local agencies. Quilts and other items are made to sell at the Craft Shows
and Quilt Show to raise funds to purchase the necessary supplies and
materials to make he donated items. Winter Ranch residents also work year
round to make items to be donated.
During the 2014-2015 Season 342 quilts were donated to the
following:
- Winter Ranch 1st Responders – 44 Quilts
- Alamo Police/Fire Department – 9 Quilts
- Easter Seals – 197 Quilts, plus cloth diapers, burp cloths, knitted caps, slippers and scarves
- McAllen Hospital Neonatal Unit – 55 Quilts plus knitted caps
- Winter Ranch Christian Ministries Christmas Project – 2 queen sized quilts and 7 children's quilts.
For more information, contact Nancy Hudgins, Chairman of
Winter Ranch Quilters
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2016 Winter Ranch Quilt Show
Save the Date – January
26,2016
Remember to bring your quilts and other quilted items to
display and share. There will be a special display for antique quilts
and sewing notions. The show is not a contest and there will be no
judging. Our goal is to appreciate the work, talent and history of the
displayed items. Admission fees go to support the activity of “Quilting for
the Needy”. Vendors will also be on site. Let's make the 2016 Winter Ranch Quilt Show the best ever.
For more information, please contact the Co-chairs: Linda
Petersen (309-6782260) or Brenda Granger (9563738288).
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Thank You from the Winter Ranch Quilter’s
We want to say a sincere THANK YOU to Winter Ranch residents who have helped us in ANY way this 2015 season. If you donated fabrics or items to sell at the quilt show. If you donated to WR Christian Ministries who gave to us. If you visited our Quilt Show in January or helped to prepare for it. If you purchased a ticket and attended our pulled pork dinner. If you bought tickets for our Opportunity Quilt. If you just stopped on Thursday and offered your support. If you gave us a donation to buy materials. For all these things we THANK YOU so much for thinking of us!!!
If you gave of your time and helped tie quilts we say THANKS. It is a valuable part of our quilt making process so we needed YOU. If you sewed quilt tops either on Thursday or at home this helped us very much and I am sending a special hug for you.
To those who gave of your time occasionally to help—we thank you for the help you gave us.
We hope you will come back next season. If you helped by baking cookies for our Quilt Show or made salads or desserts for our dinner we say Thanks. A thank you to ladies who brought mid-morning treats to share with us. Thanks to those who helped work at our craft show table each month or helped me set it up or take it down.
Thanks for sharing your quilts for us to display at our annual Quilt Show. Please continue to bring them as everyone enjoys looking at them so much!! It inspires many of us to try something new.
It is an extra special network of ladies that make our mission of sharing our quilts possible.
Words can’t express how much the support of all of you is appreciated. It takes many, many hands to made 342 quilts to donate like we did this season!! I hope I have not missed recognizing anyone who has helped—no matter how small YOUR HELP WAS noticed and you are loved and appreciated.
If you have time or talent YOU could share with us WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU JOIN US NEXT SEASON!!! We have more sewing machines or will find another job you could enjoy. We are a fun group of ladies who want to give and share here in the Rio Grande Valley!
If you received one of our quilts we are sorry you were ill but we felt proud to be able to keep you warm in the hospital. If you were a child without a blanket it made us happy to know you were warmer on a cold night. It has been a wonderful season and we hope to see all of you next
Very Sincerely,
Nancy Hudgins, Chairman
