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What are the charity quilts?

 

When Amy initially sent out the call for quilted blocks to make up the 300 main panels, she needed 7,500 blocks….She eventually got well over 15,000.  Rather than reject thousands of beautiful quilted blocks that would not make it into the main panel, the WTC Charity Quilts were born.

 

The charity quilts project is designed to help WTC/PA/Pentagon charities that arose in the wake of the 9/11/2001 tragedy.  All charity quilts on hand will be sold off at craft expos, online auction sites (such as E-Bay), and/or donated to the actual charities themselves in an effort to raise money for families of the victims.  One of Amy’s favorite organizations was the Twin Towers Orphan Fund, whom we hope to be in contact with again soon.  We hope to distribute some of the funds to other worth charities also.

 

 

How many charity quilts are there?

 

Somewhere between 150 and 200 quilts.

 

  

Why create a database?

 

The purpose of compiling a database detailing the main quilt panels is to allow any interested person to locate particular details of an individual block or quilt panel.

 

 

How?

 

Documentation slips were required for every block that was incorporated into a main panel.  We plan to enter the pertinent details from these documentation slips to help form the database.  Individual blocks will contain names of victims from the tragedy, and these names will also be in the database.  When the database is complete, the project would like to have a book printed that will cross-index the blocks to victims’ names and the names of volunteers responsible for creating those blocks.  The idea is that this book will be kept with the quilt as a sort of master reference document.

 

 

What are the honor quilts (a.k.a. Honor Banners) ?

 

This special collection of quilts were made to honor both private and government agencies who either suffered from the 9/11 attacks or played a major role in the rescue effort.

 

Although we are still trying to track down the whereabouts of many of these special-themed quilts, here is a list from the early stages of planning to give you an idea of what agencies the WTC Memorial Quilt Project wanted to recognize:

 

·        WTC Tower #1

·        WTC Tower #2

·        All Rescue Tech Firefighters blocks

·        NY, VA, DC and PA firemen blocks

·        Fallen Firefighters blocks

·        CDC

·        FBI

·        CIA

·        White House

·        Mayor Guiliani

·        Governor Pataki

·        Senate

·        House of Representatives

·         American Airlines

·        United Airlines

·        Salvation Army

·        Port Authority

·        Pentagon

·        NY, VA, PA and DC Police Officers

·        Fallen Police Officers

·        Army

·        Navy

·        Coast Guard

·        Marines

·        Air Force

·        National Guard

·        NY, VA and DC Medical Personnel

·        Medical Examiner of NY

·        NY Iron and Construction Workers

·        Red Cross

·        The World

·        United Nations

·        Canadian Friends

·        Police Rescue Dogs

·        Faith banners

 

 

 

 

Hey, I still have some quilted panels at my house!  I was waiting for instructions or a shipping label.  What do you want me to do?

 

If you are holding on to a panel of any type, or you know of anybody holding onto any panels/quilts for the project, whether it be a main quilt panel, a charity quilt, or an honor banner, E-mail Brian ASAP at  WTCquilter@hotmail.com , and I will make arrangements with you to have your materials shipped.  If you have been holding stuff because you need assistance with the shipping costs, it will not be a problem.  Please, please get in touch with me, and let me know what you have!