Fidget Quilts for Dementia patients

We love Area Days. With less people there are more opportunities to meet new friends, chat over a cup of tea and a sewing machine and work on something small and achievable. Once again, Jackie Sparks gave us a day to remember making Fidget Quilts for patients suffering from dementia.

People suffering from this awful disease often display agitation by picking at themselves or their clothes with their fingers; it has been accepted that for many, things such as fidget quilts, covered in tactile objects can seriously help as they offer the opportunity to pick with no damage and can act as enormous stress relief.

Calmore Community Centre once again hosted Region 3 for our Area Day in February and 18 of us sat and in one day, turned out 20 finished or almost finished quilts. Using a range of items from buttons to cars, quilt sandwiches were embellished with whatever we could think of. Many items were shared between the group and everyone's quilt looks fantastic.

The quilts are either destined for relatives, friends or local dementia groups who are very keen to receive them. Well done ladies, it was a great day and everything made will be going to help someone in real need.