Patients at North Orem Clinic Quilt for Charity

Regardless of where you go for your doctor’s appointments, you will most likely spend some time in the waiting room. If you find yourself in the waiting room at Intermountain Healthcare’s North Orem Clinic, you can donate this time to a good cause by making quilts for children in need.

In May, the employees at the North Orem Clinic set up a quilting frame as a small service project. They planned to leave the frame out for only a month—but more than a dozen quilts later, it is still there. Regardless of whether they have made quilts before, patients and employees find the project simple to do because the quilts are tied with yarn instead of being stitched. Those who wish to quilt are provided with a “quilting kit” holding a pre-threaded needle and safety scissors. It also holds an instruction sheet instructing patients to wash their hands before quilting and how to follow the quilt’s pattern.

The crib-size quilts are donated to the Utah County Christmas Box House, which provides them to abused and neglected children who have been removed from their homes.

North Orem Clinic and InstaCare manager Jana Rae Grose says that the clinic always needs donations of fabric and batting.