Long Island Quilters Society

12/19/2025

12/13/2025

If you want to see some amazing quilts then you have to get to the Elmont Library! Marilyn Hamilton Jackson is exhibing 38, yes 38!, of her gorgeous quilts at the request of the library! They will all be on display until the close of February. Her work, creativity, and enthusiasm is nothing short of brilliant! The multi-award winning Dancing Quilter is another one of Long Island Quilters Society's strikingly talented quilters. Marilyn is a mini quilt show on her own. Stop by, you'll be amazed by her ability to turn cloth, thread and needle into works of art!

11/24/2025

Fabric Frenzy!!! November - Brown. For every FQ donated you get a ticket ... and someone walked away with 54 FQs!!!!

11/22/2025

the holiday season is upon us .... it's your call.

"My name's Leonard. I'm 71. I work the night shift at Murphy's Gas Station off Highway 40. Midnight to 8 a.m., four nights a week. It's just me, the fluorescent lights, and whoever's desperate enough to need gas at 3 a.m.

Most nights are quiet. Truckers. Nurses heading home. People too tired to talk.
But sometimes, I see the panic.

Like the young couple who pulled in on empty, baby crying in the backseat. The woman came inside, card in hand, tried three times. Declined. Declined. Declined. Her husband sat in the car, head in his hands.

She looked at me, terrified. "We're two hours from home. I just got off a double shift. Can we... can we pump $5 and I'll come back tomorrow?"

I've worked gas stations for 30 years. You can't run a business on promises. But I looked at that crying baby. That exhausted mother.

"Pump what you need," I said. "Pay me when you can."
She stared. "You don't even know my name."
"Don't need to," I said.

She pumped $12. Wrote her phone number on a napkin with shaking hands. Two days later, she came back with $20. "The extra is for the next person," she said.
That's when it started.

I kept a notebook. People who needed gas but couldn't pay. Some came back. Some didn't. But that $8 the young mother left? I used it for the next stranded driver.

Then customers started noticing. A trucker left $50. "For whoever needs it." A businessman prepaid $100 worth of gas. "Give it away however you want."

My notebook became full of names, amounts, stories. The single dad whose car died on the way to his custody hearing. The woman fleeing with her kids, tank on empty and no money. The elderly man who'd driven himself to the ER and had nothing left for the drive home.

I never asked questions. Just pumped their gas and said, "Someone made sure you'd make it home safe."
Last month, the young mother came back. But she wasn't alone. She brought seventeen people. Families she'd told about me. And together, they handed me $600.

"We're calling it the Highway Angels Fund," she said. "For Leonard. Who never let anyone stay stranded."
I cried under those fluorescent lights. Seventy-one years old, crying at a gas pump.

Now the donation box sits right by the register. It never empties. People from three counties know about it. They stop by just to contribute.

I'm just a gas station clerk. Minimum wage, overnight shift, burnt coffee.

But I learned this, Home isn't a place. It's the feeling that you'll make it there.
So help someone get home. Pay a toll. Cover a tank. Give a ride.
Because sometimes, the difference between giving up and keeping going is just $12 worth of gas.
And someone willing to trust you'll make it."
Let this story reach more hearts....
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By Mary Nelson

11/21/2025

08/18/2025

Hey Quiltees ... maybe something your quilt might want to participate in?

🚨ATTENTION ALL QUILT GUILDS🚨

Interested in displaying your raffle quilt & volunteering at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza?

QuiltFest invites guilds to sell tickets for and display their opportunity quilt at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA this September 11-14, 2025. The Extravaganza will provide a space, tables and chairs included, where guilds can display their fundraising quilt for all four days of the festival in exchange for 20 hours of white-glove volunteer service on the show floor.

To sign up your guild, check out our website (https://bit.ly/45BDUL3) & submit your application today!

07/23/2025

July 28th .... you might need a JUMBO IKEA blue tote for the fabric you might buy!

Daughters of a previous member of LIQS are opening up their mother's storage unit in Farmingdale to sell what remains of their mother’s fabric collection. Many of you may remember Maura and her sisters as guest vendors at LIQS meetings.
The sale is by appointment only from July 28 to August 11, and everything is organized in bins and sold by the pound.
If you’re interested, contact Maura directly at (631) 245-3584 to set up a time.