The Lone Star Girl and her fellow First Day School student, a very cool thirteen-year-old girl, are working on the neatest project! Our Quaker Meeting is part of South Central Yearly Meeting and it was my idea that they might want to do a project that would get them in touch with other First Day Schools in SCYM, since they are the only Quaker kids in Corpus Christi - unless you count the Lone Star Baby, who is not really thinking that much about religion yet. I was thinking postcards or a poster they could all contribute to or something similarly tame and small. They had a much better idea.
They have sent out letters or e-mails to all of the First Day Schools we could locate in SCYM with a request to send them a quilting square (and specifications about the square) that depicts something about the sender's First Day School and the theme of Peace. When the squares are in and they have done their own square as well, one of our members has agreed to turn all of the squares into a quilt - a SCYM First Day Schools Peace Quilt! Then, if they get permission, the girls want to raffle off the quilt at the 2007 Yearly Meeting next spring to raise money for the American Friends Service Committee! I am so proud of these wonderful girls!
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That is a wonderful project- if she needs fabric seriously, I have tons of unused stuff.
Thank you! Yearly Meeting didn't go for the raffle idea, as the traditional Quaker discomfort with gambling might have predicted. They otherwise support the idea, though, so another way to use it to raise money for the AFSC will be found - like people buying "pieces" of the quilt and getting their names on them, etc.
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