by Dorothy Gross

This is a picture of Emily Austin of Utah. Isn’t she just beautiful?  Emily has the sweetest smile and sparkling eyes. After our June board meeting, Jill and I went to visit Emily, a 15 year old teenager.   As a young child, Emily was bruising easily, and her mom took her to the doctor. At the age of 5 years, Emily was diagnosed with Leukemia. She underwent treatment and has been in remission twice. The onset of leg pains was a signal the cancer was coming back. Last year Emily underwent a bone marrow transplant. No one in the family was a match, so she had an anonymous donor. When she lost her hair she had told us “It was a disappointment.”

What a wonderful experience it was for us to meet and talk with her. She is currently doing well and is back in school, Emily will be going into 9th grade and is looking forward to Orem High School. We brought her a Mary Engelbreit red and black quilt. She was very happy as you can see in this picture. Her last comment to us as we were on our way out the door was, “I love the color red.” We were lucky with the color choice; and let’s all pray that she is lucky, and this will be her last treatment for Cancer!

This month The Mueller Park 7th Ward donated another 35 quilts. That is a total of 123 from them.

Elaine’s Quilt Block is fabulous – another 14 finished. (As I am writing this I received a phone call and they have another 3 bags – usually 8 to 10 quilts in a bag.) What a great start for next month’s report.

Another roving reporter indicates that Shirley’s Fabrics in Roosevelt has donated fabric for backing quilts to the Uintah Basin Quilters Guild for Q4C.

The Area Reps brought me either finished quilts or pictures and the list is as follows:

Quilters Holiday 12

Utah Valley               01

Knott’s                      02

Bear River                 02

Moab             21

Tooele                       01

Southridge                02

(also afghans by Shelli S and Carol P)                        03

Threads of Time    07

Liz Sulik (mailed from Texas) 01

I received an e-mail from Liz Sulik who moved to Texas last year. She was at Quilt Fest when Jill gave us each our challenge “…every guild member please make a Quilt4Cancer.” She took this challenge to heart and made a Q4C.  She asked for an address in order to mail her quilt. What a wonderful gift of love, and her charity is much appreciated. Liz is a great example for all of us, as well as you guild members who have fulfilled this challenge in completing a quilt. Those who have not finished – please get your quilt(s) finished and turned in. We are nearing the 500 goal.