| LAP members donate to several charities throughout the mid-Michigan area. We donate non-perishable food items and other household products for Delta Township District Library. More than 300 quilts are made and donated annually to the R.J.Scheffel Memorial Toy Project. We also provide dozens of Comfort quilts to local nursing homes for the residents who use wheelchairs. Our newest addition is Lansing Area Hospice. Our members provide quilts for children and adults who are in hospice care. We provide members with resources where the information needed for our charitable works. Click on any link below for more information on these organizations. |
| LANSING AREA HOSPICE: Through the Sparrow and McClaren Health Systems, quilts are provided for children and adults who are in hospice. The LAP Service Project Coordinator collects and delivers the quilts to Sticks and Strings yarn shop. A representative from Hospice will collect the quilts and distribute them as needed to their patients. http://www.stickandstringslansing.com/ |
 SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE: New project for quilt donation. Go to the SIHP website shpbeds.org, find the Lansing Chapter, then to Quilts Across America section. This page provides the patterns and sizes for the quilts they use for the beds. |
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R.J. SCHEFFEL MEMORIAL TOY PROJECT: This is a local charity that provides toys for disadvantaged and "in crisis" at Christmas. LAP provides doll quilts for the doll beds that local volunteers make throughout the year. This organization has been in the Lansing Area for many years and provides for hundreds of children.
http://www.scheffel-toys.org/ |
| COMFORT QUILTS: LAP members make smaller quilts approximately 30 to 36 inches square for residents in nursing homes who use wheelchairs. |
| QUILTS OF VALOR BLOCKS
2026 "Echoes" 2026 National Block 10" finished (10 ½" unfinished)
Welcome to Quilts of Valor's 2026 National Block Drive where your block donations support our efforts to cover every military veteran and active service member with a Quilt of Valor made especially for them. When choosing fabrics for your block donations, please use the guidelines given below, this will insure we are easily able to work your donations into a quilt for a veteran. Use only red, white (cream) and blue fabrics. Please DO NOT use floral fabrics. The center block is a great opportunity to incorporate those medium and large prints (including branch specific) that attract the eye. If choosing branch specific, represent only one military branch per block. The reds and blues to the upper left and lower right corners of the blocks should read as solids, only very small prints will work here. The whites and creams should also read as solids; prints larger than a pin dot are too overwhelming to the rest of the block. Thank you for working with the 2026 block drive, I look forward to coordinating your donations of blocks to support our groups as they sew these blocks into quilts to honor our veterans. Sew happy you are a part of our team. Reflecting back to 2025 Block Drive, my desire to acknowledge each donation turned out far greater than my ability to do so. I know many of you did, many did not, receive acknowledgement of blocks received. I did try. Going forward to 2026, if you wish acknowledgement of blocks, quilts received, please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope with a note enclosed stating your block donation; I will sign it and drop it back in the mail to you. Thank you for your understanding. Happy Sewing 2025: 12-1/2” square unfinished. Here is a link to the photo and instructions. |
