QUILT-A-THON to make Wrap Up and Read Quilts

Join Community Quiltmaking Center (CQC) and quiltmakers from across Ithaca and Tompkins County to make Wrap Up and Read Quilts in an all-day Quilt-A-Thon, Sunday, November 30th, 10 am - 5pm, at CQC at ReUse MegaCenter at Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., in Ithaca, NY

Community members will all sewing and quiltmaking abilities welcome!

Wrap Up and Read Quilts are small & beautiful lap-sized quilts made by community members and quiltmakers and given as gifts especially for children and their loved ones to snuggle up and share children's picture books together. This year children from Head Starts and rural Pre-Ks across Tompkins County will receive quilts.

Two beautiful books are gifted with each quilt, thanks to Children’s Reading Connection. “Joseph Had a Little Overcoat” is given in memory of David Dunlop, whose wife Peggy Dunlop, donated the fabric that launched the Community Quiltmaking Center. The second book, “We All Go Traveling By,” is a favorite classic picture book.

For Wrap Up and Read GUIDELINES, and more details visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NrrqIwVIrRqZSdhOpkK2HQBONRfbpeUOvrHJ2gX1Ts4/edit?usp=sharing

For more information, or with questions about the quilts or the books, contact Brigid Hubberman at: Q3JlYXRlIHwgQ29tbXVuaXR5UXVpbHRpbmdDZW50ZXIgISBvcmc= or YnJpZ2lkIHwgY2hpbGRyZW5zcmVhZGluZ2Nvbm5lY3Rpb24gISBvcmc=.

Reading aloud to children is the single most important activity for developing future reading skills and desire. With warmth and beauty, Wrap Up and Read Quilts and books will encourage families to snuggle up and read at home as a special part of everyday family life.

Each lap-sized quilt is being created by community quiltmakers and gifted with two new picture books to HeadStart and Pre-K families in Ithaca and Tompkins County, NY. This year children from TC Head Starts, and rural Pre-ks in Newfield, Trumansburg, Lansing, Groton, Dryden, McLean, and Freeville will receive books

Wrap Up and Read Quilts is a “quilting for community good” initiative of the Community Quiltmaking Center in collaboration with Children’s Reading Connection, and other organizations and quilt groups in the community.

For more information, or with questions about the quilts or the books, contact Brigid Hubberman at: Q3JlYXRlIHwgQ29tbXVuaXR5UXVpbHRpbmdDZW50ZXIgISBvcmc= or YnJpZ2lkIHwgY2hpbGRyZW5zcmVhZGluZ2Nvbm5lY3Rpb24gISBvcmc=, or call (607) 227-3360.