Email Chris in Volunteer Services or call him at 828-252-7489. The panels to your right were made in 2009 and 2010. The panels are now permanent pieces of The Quilt. The panels that we make this year that are completed before November 15th will be part of the World AIDS Day Commemoration and Quilt Exhibit. The panels will then be part of a formal induction ceremony on World AIDS Day, December 1. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a dynamic and special memorial. It travels the world telling the stories of lives lost too soon to a disease that is preventable, a tribute to those we have loved and lost. If you would like to create a panel in memory of a loved one, we’d like to help you. WNCAP is honored to help people who would like to sew a panel for the Quilt. We have volunteers who love to sew and creative people to help you design and create your panel. We meet once a month to help you move forward with your Quilting project. If you’d like to join our Quilting group, or if you’d like to consult with our team, please contact Chris.
October 2010 This month we offer a tender, behind-the-scenes look at the panel created for Helen M. Gallagher, found on Block #1688. This is one of the 47,000 handmade panels that are a part of the ever-growing AIDS Memorial Quilt. Less than a month ago, Helen's granddaughter Jennifer Smith was in Atlanta and called The NAMES Project national headquarters to ask if she could stop by and see the panel for her grandmother. Jennifer spent more than an hour visiting with us and here is some of what she shared... Jennifer came through our doors in tears. She didn't expect to be so overwhelmed but she was -- both by seeing her Grandmother's panel prominently displayed when she walked in the door and also by the beautiful sun shower in the afternoon sky.
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