With all the current popularity swirling around regarding quilting and the magic of creating such beautiful artistic designs there is a group of women called the Salix Stitchers club who are part of a group of at least fifty women in the Johnstown area who not only are apt to find ways to help people but who are interested in sharing their love of quilting and quilt kits with the world by encouraging people to help donate to local charities in the area. As do many quilting guilds, this particular group does their best to create quilts and offer them to various local organizations that would be able to distribute the quilts to those in need.
Amazingly, the group has been performing such charities for at least two decades and in the past twenty years they have crafted countless items that have gone on to serve the community as donations to the less fortunate. And one particular project that has captured the hearts not only of the quilters themselves but of many people in the community is the guild’s effort to craft baby quilts for extremely small babies in the hospital.
The quilts that are created are smaller than average and are only forty-two inches square and are used as a way to cover the incubators and ensure the babies’ eyes are shielded from the bright hospital lights. One of the nice things about the donations is that the parents get to take the quilts home as a charitable gesture to make sure the babies have something warm when they go home.