The Textiles and Clothing Club is putting its members’ sewing skills to work to raise money to help disaster victims in New York City.

Lynne Marie Collins, club president, said the club will be raffling a quilt made of donated blue jeans. Raffle proceeds will go to the American Red Cross, she said.

The design of the quilt will be a replica of the American flag, said Collins, junior in apparel merchandising, design and production.

She said the lightest colored jeans will make up the stars and white stripes, darker colored jeans will make up the red stripes, and the darkest colored jeans will make up the background of the stars.

Grace Kunz, adviser for the Textiles and Clothing Club, said the members of the club will be responsible for the layout and production of the quilt.

The process of creating the king-size quilt will begin Wednesday, when the executive board of the club will meet to cut out all of the squares that will be used for the quilt, Collins said.

After the squares are cut, members of the club will begin the layout and sewing, she said.

Once the quilt is finished, which should be by the first or second week in November, the members of the club will be selling raffle tickets for $1, Collins said.

“My goal is for the group to sell at least 1,000 tickets,” she said. “With 80 people in the club, I think that is obtainable.”

Kari Zevenbergen, vice president of the club, said a lot of people already have donated denim for the project. Collins said the group has received four large garbage bags full of jeans. Jeans can be dropped off in the LeBaron Hall lounge on the main level until Oct. 23.

“We hope people are as enthusiastic about buying raffle tickets as they have been about donating denim,” said Zevenbergen, junior in apparel merchandising, design and production. “This is not just benefiting our club but all the victims in New York”

Kunz, associate professor of textiles and clothing, said the raffle will take place sometime before the end of the semester.

Collins said the group members are enthusiastic about this project.

“We are hoping to make an impact,” she said. “We just want to help everyone who has been affected.”