Quilted Twins started with 2 (twin) sisters, one living in Dade City, FL and the other near Warsaw Poland. Rachel, the twin in Florida owns the Quilted Twins fabric store that has a huge online following as well as the physical location in Dade City where many come to shop and attend classes. Becky, the twin in Poland, shares her quilts and designs as well as putting free quilt patterns out on their site. Becky and her husband have orchestrated a huge grass roots effort in getting food and supplies to the Ukrainian refugees as well as people still in the Ukraine.
After lots of communication with various entities the Twins and associates figured out logistics on how they could ship completed quilts and pillow cases from their Florida base to Poland for distribution to Refugees and people still in the Ukraine who have lost everything.
In March 2022, Rachel sent out a request on their website for Quilters to Unite! The response was phenomenal and by April 30th they collected about 6,000 Quilts/Blankets/pillowcases and even a few afghans and knitted hats. They also had a link on the website where people could donate money to help cover shipping cost, again the response was phenomenal collecting the $30,000+ needed to ship all the materials half way around the world. They were able to secure a very good discount with FedEx by working with Scott Fortunoff of Jaftex Fabrics who has FedEx connections and was interested in helping. The first shipment was a single 100lb test box and the next shipment of 30 boxes were shipped via FedEx. The last huge shipment of 79 wardrobe size boxes started the journey via UPS to Warsaw on May 13.
Bringing the total of 12,000 pounds of materials sent through this extremely dedicated group of individuals who started out with the simple question “What can we do to help?”
Below are a few pictures of Quilts Beyond Borders quilts being received and prepped for shipping at Quilted Twins, and we will be sharing many more pictures of your QBB quilts that went to Ukraine refugees in future blog posts.
Quilted Twins is not accepting more quilts at this time, however Quilts Beyond Borders will be continuing to work with other groups to get quilts to Ukrainian Refugees in Europe and the US. If you want to send quilts for the many initiatives that Quilts Beyond Borders supports, please email us at QuiltsBeyondBorders@gmail.com.




