"The ORIGINAL Hearts & Hands Across Canada"
Grandparents' Quilt
A NEW awareness campaign started by the founder of CANGRANDS
Dear Canadian Grandparents;
My name is Betty and as the President of CANGRANDS, I am inviting you to become part of a very special new project.If you cannot participate, please PASS this along to someone who can!
"CANGRANDS Original Hearts & Hands Across Canada" quilt and book will be a project on behalf of both grandparents raising grandchildren and those denied access in Canada. I am a grandmother raising my second granddaughter and denied access of my first granddaughter (my son and two different women), so both these issues are dear to my heart!
We hope to have grandparents from all the Provinces and Territories represented on the quilt and in the book. My hopes for the Canadian quilt and the book is to bring public awareness of the plight of the grandparents and the grandchildren. I plan on presenting the quilt and book in Ottawa on Grandparents Day when complete.
OPTIONAL: Please send, along with your quilt block, a 500 word, or less essay, of your situation to be put into the book which will go along with the quilt.
DEADLINE: The quilt will be 'added too' as blocks come in, so get your block in asap.
For Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
BLOCK INSTRUCTIONS: On a piece of pre-washed fabric 15" X 15" you need to trace one of your hands and write your first and last name in the palm. If you have a spouse they too will need to trace one of their hands with their first and last name in the palm. Then have each grandchild trace one of his/her hands and write only their first name in the palm. You may use an assumed name or just whatever your grandchildren call you: grandma, nana, Baba,etc!
For Denied Access Grandparents
BLOCK INSTRUCTIONS: If you are a grandparent who is denied access of a grandchild draw a heart (two crossing if married) on the prewashed fabric 15 " X 15". Write your first and last name in the heart. Add ONLY the first names of your denied access grandchildren. You may use an assumed name or just whatever your grandchildren call you: grandma, nana, Baba,etc!
NOTE: If you want to embroider them or decorate them, please do so.
We would love to have all the grands participate in this most prestige project. Please submit your handprints/hearts blocks as soon as possible.
We all must do something to protect those rights for our families and our children. If you know any other grandparents who would like to be made part of this project, please have them contact me or pass on this notice for them to read. A disclaimer for your permission to use your stories and handprints for the quilt and book are below.
A disclaimer for your permission to use your stories and handprints for the quilt and book is below. The disclaimer MUST be signed before you can participate in this project.
The first Hearts & Hands Quilt which was loaned out to a Nancy Woodbridge of the Canadian grandparents Association in B.C and never returned to CANGRANDS.
Thanking you all in advance for your consideration and help with these most important projects. If you have any questions, call me at: 613-474-0035 or e-mail me.
Love Betty Cornelius-President
CANGRANDS
R.R. # 1, McArthurs Mills
Ontario, Canada K0L 2M0
E-Mail Betty
Cornelius
CANGRANDS National Kinship Support
R.R. 1, McArthurs Mills, Ontario K0L 2M0
Tel: 613-474-0035
E-mail: grandma@cangrands.com
courriel: demandez@cangrands.com