I know this is a little bit late after your posting, but may I suggest you talk to the nursing home "leaders" before you make anything to donate. We have a nursing home facility in our small town and a couple of my quilting friends were going to make quilts and donate to them, but the "leaders" said that they didn't want any donated quilts, that if the patient died and the family didn't want the quilt, the facility would just throw the quilts away, so needless to say, we're not donating to them, but are donating our quilts to kids with cancer.