We had a great time at the Interfaith Quilt Show in early March and of course on the way home, we had to stop at a couple of quilt shops too. Now, we were not on a FHQ Shopping Spree, we were just there picking up a few things for ourselves. But in Quilting Hands […]
Every year, volunteers of Firehouse Quilts are thrilled to make quilts with hearts on them for Highlands Ranch Community Association. A fun group of young adults belong to the HRCA Therapeutic Program and each year they have a Sweetheart Dance around Valentines Day where they come and dance, have snacks and door prizes. That’s where […]
On the first sew day in 2012 after the annual quilt show, 119 snuggle quilts were turned in! Firehouse Quilts is pleased to present our 8th annual spectacular 2-day quilt show July 19 and 20 at the Events Center at Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock, Colorado. Over 150 beautiful quilts will be on display. […]
Each time Action Care Ambulance is called on an emergency involving children, the EMTs and firefighters give them a choice of our snuggle quilts. Periodically, we get updates from Action Care about why the child was picked up in the ambulance and how they and their parents react to our quilts. Just got these this […]
After many, many hours of work, Firehouse Quilts has a new website! Feel free to browse around to see how much easier it will be to navigate. You’ll quickly be able to get things accomplished with the interactive and comprehensive forms for the quilt show that Cathy D created for us. As always, we are […]
Hello Firehouse Quilters! It started off with a phone call telling me there were around 100 handmade snuggle quilts that had been collected throughout the state of Colorado and made their way to Fort Collins via the Colorado Quilting Council. They were to be donated to those families who lost their homes in the High […]
To Firehouse Quilts volunteers, I wanted to say Thank you for the beautiful quilt my son received while being transferred to Children’s Hospital in Aurora. He is three years old and had a rare complication from getting his adenoids removed. He flew fixed wing airplane to Centennial Airport around midnight The paramedics in the ambulance […]
Dear volunteers of Firehouse Quilts, A few weeks ago, our daughter, Eliana Rose was admitted to Swedish Medical for a severe respiratory illness. Attached is a picture of her with the quilt when she was brought into the ambulance to be taken to the hospital, where she was eventually placed into the Pediatric ICU unit. […]
I’ve been corresponding by email for a few weeks with Tori (Hope’s mom) about our quilt her daughter received on the way to the hospital recently. Here’s a nice thank you note she sent. “Hi wonderful volunteers, I would like to send a thank you for the quilt we received when our 2-year-old daughter was […]