Miniature Quilt Auction
PRESS RELEASE
Quilt Country Contact: Sandy Brawner Owner 701 S. Stemmons Fwy #60 Lewisville, TX 75067-4591 Phone 972-436-7022 Fax 972-436-6065 sandy@quiltcountry.com
Quilt Country Hosting Miniature Quilt Online Auction – All Proceeds to Benefit North Texas Food Bank Food Bank Faces First Financial Shortfall since 1982 Opening. Lewisville, Texas Quilt Shop and its Customers Organize Auction Lewisville, TX June 29, 2010: When Sandy Brawner learned the North Texas Food Bank donation receipts for the current fiscal year are $250,000 less than budgeted, she knew immediately the staff and customers of her Lewisville, TX quilt shop would want to help. Sandy and her Quilt Country team decided to hold its first miniature quilt auction and donate 100% of the proceeds to the food bank. The miniature quilts, all of which are beautifully designed, crafted and donated by customers and employees of Quilt Country, are available for auction online by accessing the shop’s website at www.quiltcountry.com through 3 p.m. CDT Sunday, July 11, 2010. The public is encouraged to visit the store, located at 701 S. Stemmons Freeway in Lewisville, to personally view these unique miniature quilts. Auction bids will also be accepted in the shop. This auction offers buyers an array of exquisite mini quilts to bid on while supporting the nutritional needs of North Texas families. When viewing the quilts, the public will be moved by both the talent and compassion of these quilt designers. One of the quilters, Coleen Voss, decided “I had to use only fabric scraps in my quilt, nothing new, only what I had on hand. I wanted my quilts to show hunger in some way…I thought what does hunger look like …That is how I choose my fabric scraps. What does hunger feel like? I imagine it must feel raw, so I left some raw edges. It must hurt, so I used porcupine quills…Hunger also must feel cold and lonely, so I used polished stones.” The staff and customers of Quilt Country have a long history of supporting various charitable causes. Since 2003, the shop has hosted an annual food drive for the North Texas Food Bank between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Quilt Country held a bra quilt challenge to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Each entrant made a quilt using a pattern for a bra quilt. Quilt Country staff and customers have donated shoe boxes filled with necessities for children worldwide through Samaritan’s Purse. The shop’s customers and staff donated and shipped boxes of toys for children in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as magazines, food, socks, cards, games and personal care items for our soldiers serving in these countries. In the wake of 9/11, Quilt Country sponsored a drive to make and collect quilts for NYC firefighters and survivors of victims. Soon after Katrina, the staff and customers of Quilt Country made and donated quilts for victims. Residents of the Denton State School have received pillowcases made by a Quilt Country customer. The shop has sponsored a quilt drive for Project Linus, collected items for the Chin refugees from Myanmar, donated fabric to Lutheran World Relief, and participated in the 1,000,000 pillowcase challenge. For release 8 a.m. CDT, July 1, 2010
