The “Casa de Amor” 2018 – Ronald McDonald Quilt
What does it take to make the Ronald McDonald Quilt?
It takes the person with the plan (Karen Barnes).
The helpers
The children of the house to make their artwork.
And friends to sew it together!
Someone to quilt it (Carol Duque)!
A whole lot of LOVE for the Ronald McDonald House!
The “Casa de Amor” 2018 – Ronald McDonald Quilt
Our 2018 Quilt brought $24,000 again this year in the Live Auction. Watch the exciting video as they raise the money for this precious quilt! Pictured below are the children from the house house creating the art work for the quilt and the ASG members who worked on the quilt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6MnerxB5SI
The “Casa de Amor” 2017 – Ronald McDonald Quilt
2017 quilt brought in $24,000.
The “Casa de Amor” 2016 – Ronald McDonald Quilt
Step 1: decide on a design. Step2: shop for fabrics. Step3: cut fabrics. Step 4: Sew! With graph paper, pencil, and color pencils the process of design begins. How fitting that the design inspiration should come from a ‘Quilt of Valor’ since all to be featured are very brave sick children under treatment at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas and residing at the Ronald McDonald House (RMH). Special feature this year are the Torres triplets, of whom two were conjoined recently separated in a worldwide historic operation.
All the fabrics used for the quilt top were donated by guild members including the Singer Sewing Center. No shopping today, darn! The fabrics were cut during the June 2016 chapters community service meeting. Ten members participated in making twelve 16” blocks of various size stars. The center block fabric was “prepared for dying” (PFD) fabric. The star points were made up of brightly colored fabrics.
With all the blocks made, the children of the RMH were assembled for a finger painting party with the larger resident’s hand prints and baby’s foot prints strategically placed on the PFD squares of all stars. Next the blocks were sewn together. Once the borders were added it was time to head to the local quilt shop ‘Heirloom Elegance’ where the owner allows use of the long arm for charity quilts. Two hours later the quilting was completed, the binding was then added and not a day to soon.
The next day, Gala’s guest speaker, Mr. ‘Tony Parker #9 of the San Antonio Spurs came to the RMH and generously signed the quilt and wrote “Go Spurs!”
The evening of September 1, 2016 the ‘Casa de Amor’ Gala brought friends and families of the RMH together. Food, conversation, and merriment could not have prepared the four Corpus Christi ASG members attending for the big surprise to come. The live auction bid for the quilt happened in less than a minute, it happened so quickly, final bid $25,000.00! Yes, twenty-five thousand. Executive Director Michelle Horine came running and screaming, “Can you believe it?”
2016 is the third year the Corpus Christi Chapter has partnered with the RMH in raising monies to assist the families of sick children by sewing and donating a special quilt each year. To date monies raised from donated quilts total nearly $50,000.00.
Ronald McDonald Quilt 2015 – Drawings by Ronald McDonald resident children. Put together by ASG members and hand quilted by Karen Barnes. This quilt brought $7500 in a bid at the live auction at the Ronald McDonald House fund raiser.
Ronald McDonald House Quilt project 2014
The Ronald McDonald House was presented with our quilt project on August 23rd. The quilt was made from pictures the resident children had drawn. The pictures were scanned onto fabric, squares were put together in our SIS meeting and Jan Johnson put it together with beautiful bright colors backed with Ronald McDonald fabric. Jan also made a small wall hanging for the house to keep. The quilt will be featured in the 2014 Casa De Amor live auction for the Ronald McDonald House in Corpus Christi. The fundraiser is featuring Regis Philbin and the Regis Philbin Orchestra Thursday, September 11, 2014 Ortiz International Center fro 6:30 – 9:00. We are happy to support the Ronald McDonald House. It is our meeting place for Sew! It’s Saturday! Community service projects and Junior Sewing Day. They are also kind enough to store machines and fabrics for us in a locked closet.
Children’s Advocacy Center, CCPD (making jackets)
Teach Another Generation (TAG)
2013 Fashion Show at King High School
Our Chapter wishes to further our cause by providing sewing education opportunities for all interested youth. Through our junior program, TAG (Teach Another Generation), we:
- Mentor high school Fashion Design students by working with the classroom teacher.
- Donate ASG Junior Memberships to top design students.
- Provide prizes for the Sewing Division of two county Junior Livestock Shows.
- Are expanding our program to include Home Schooled youth and 4H programs.
This year ten Guild members worked with approximately 100 Fashion Design students at King High School to help with their design projects as they prepared for their fashion show. Both the students and the volunteers from the Guild have enjoyed the exchange. Valerie Elizondo, the classroom teacher, really appreciated our input saying, “I want to thank all the ladies for their friendly support to help nurture the sewing talents of these young people.”
In April 2014, we plan to sponsor a style show in our community to give for interested youth an opportunity to show and/or model their creations. For more information , contact Diana Lauritzen, TAG Coordinator.
Help support our Community Service effort by purchasing tickets for our 2013 TAG Raffle. Learn more about this important fundraiser.
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