DeKalb County Quilters' Guild

orial Hospital Neonatal Unit. Over the years the Guild has donated hundreds of baby quilts that are placed on the Neonatal incubators and then go home with the babies. The Guild members have also made “Quillows” for the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department. A Quillow is a quilt that folds into a pocket and makes a pillow. The Quillows are kept in the squad cars and given to children by the officers during times of trauma. The Guild members also make wheelchair pockets that are donated to local nursing homes for use by the nursing home residents that are confined to wheelchairs. Each year, Christmas ornaments are donated to local nursing homes. Often, the guild is asked to have volunteers demonstrate and/or teach quilting at community and school events. Individual members give their time as fits their schedules. Approximately every other year the Guild sponsors a Quilt Show to raise funds to support the above-mentioned Guild activities and for donation to charity. In recent years the charity was through the local hospital foundation. Our donation initiated a program to make mammograms available to women in DeKalb County who could not afford one. Other charities have been for a scholarship in the name of one of the Guild’s founders, Charlotte Sundly and to shelters or safe houses in DeKalb County for women and their children. Our meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of every month, with the exception of November (no meeting) and December (special holiday party), at 7:00pm at
St. Mary's Parish Activity Center (PAC)
322 Waterman Street
Sycamore, IL 60178.