About Us
In the Autumn of 1993 about ten PPQG members formed a group and met at a quilt shop once a week to make quilts for charity. This group would later be known as Connecting Threads. This group made ten quilts, thirty-six inches square for the Labour rooms at the Regina General Hospital where they were hung on the walls in large plastic frames, and it was hoped they would bring comfort to the mothers to be. Another quilt was raffled to raise money to purchase the frames.
Connecting Threads took on the project of making quilts for preemie babies at the Regina General Hospital. The PPQG assumed financial responsibility for the group in 1999 and raised funds through bi-annual quilt raffles and corporate grants.
We are proud to announce that in 2025, we donated 813 quilts to the community. This was an increase of 56 quilts compared to 2024. 146 quilts were donated to the NICU and 171 quilts to the Pediatric Inpatient and Outpatient Units at the Regina General Hospital and 117 quilts to the Wascana Rehab Centre for kids with life threatening illnesses and those in a traumatic situation, 114 to 4 Directions Community Health Centre, 109 to Allan Blair CancerClinic, 114 to KidsFirst, 12 to Caring Hearts Counselling INC., 10 to the Wellness Wheel Medical Clinic and 20 to the Al Ritchie Babies Best Start.
In February 2024 Connecting Threads incorporated and is now known as Connected Threads Network Inc. (CTNI)
Connected Threads Network Inc. ’s purpose is:
- To promote health and relieve poverty by providing individuals suffering from health conditions, such as mental illness, addiction, grief, or stress, with extra comfort items, including quilts, pillowcases, and other sewn items to cope with these health conditions and/or to individuals or families who are experiencing poverty, of low income, or in need.
-To undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above charitable purpose.
In order to reach the individuals described above, CTNI connects exclusively with charitable organizations that support those affected individuals and works directly with those organizations to make sure the quilted items are delivered to those individuals in need
