i help the local Lutheran church group make quilts to give to nursing homes, crisis nurseries, etc. There are only about eight of us in the group. We use material that is donated or from our own stashes. all material donated is looked over for quality and cleanliness as well as usefulness. We donate nonuseable materials such as upholstery fabric etc to other charitable organizations that could use them. Backings are made from good used flat sheets we pick up at local thrift stores. Batting is bought on the roll from fabric store, we pay for it from quilts we have sold at annual bake and craft sale. We dont sew the batting together but try to make sure it comes together in middle of block so that when we tie knot it we are catching both edges. Yarn is either donated or bought at thrift store.
Once a year all quilts made are displayed over back of pews at church and are blessed by the minister. Anyone wishing to buy one for personal use may do so at prearranged price with the money going toward purchase of more batting, we average roughly 100 quilts a year ranging from baby, lap,twin and queen sizes. The largest quilts go for $75.00 which I think is rather cheap but i dont belong to the church and dont have any say in setting prices.
ALL babies baptized are presented with one of the quilts also.