We started our group 7 years ago making comfort quilts for cancer patients. We started in a member's house but eventually moved to a room at our local cancer support center. We have used our own fabric as well as generous donations of fabric and money from families who have lost loved ones to cancer. The Support Center has also donated money to buy our batting. We started out putting $5 a week in the kitty and have had as many as 20 people in our group. We now put in $1 a week, which gives us enough money to buy emergency supplies. It was a slow process getting started. We have fairly strict guidelines on the quality of the quilts we donate, i.e., "if it's not good enough to give to your mother, it's not good enough for a cancer patient". All of our quilts are machine quilted. There is a local person who will long arm a few for us every year. We still have most of the original group but if new people want to join us it's wonderful. Only requirement is they must have some experience with quilting as we don't have time to teach. And we have had to talk to people about the quality of their work, too.