Cancer center blanket
 

Not sure if this is the right forum . I am making a comfort quilt for the local cancer treatment center. What size works best,? QuitnNan, I know you make a lot. What is your recommendation?
Btw, I used my Accuquilt Go Big to cut bricks from the scraps I fished from our fabric pool at our quilt show last week. Will try to post a picture when it’s done !��

Of course, it's always best to check with the center where you will donate. My center likes them the 42" wide that we make (because we don't want to piece the backs). The minimum length of 50" and max of 60". My contact there, though, says that they'll take anything :)

The folks that accept the knitting/crocheting say no narrower than 36" and not less than 45" long.

Thanks, Terri.

I have spent countless hours in a recliner getting chemo. I want a quilt that will cover me but not so big that it is hard to manage. Too wide quilts get caught in the chair and too big quilts are so heavy that it is difficult to manage in weakened state.

The quilts I make for the Cancer Center are raffled off monthly to the patients. My friend, who is the chemo counselor, is happy with any size I give them. I try to keep the size around 50" X 65" to 70" so the whole body can be covered. They get to keep them so I like something that is a usable size. I am told the patients are thrilled with the "gift".

My favorite home “made blanket of any type was the one a friend gifted me with, because it was a narrow twin size, and had a 12” pocket sewed to the bottom end of just doubled fabric, with a seam up the middle of the pocket, for me to put my feet in to keep them covered. I loved that blanket to death. It was given to my first dog, “Yukon King” it was “his” blanket from then on, and he was wrapped in it when he passed six years ago. I still miss both of them.

Our group Quilts for Comfort we make 45 x 60....these quilts are for leukemia patients who get a bone marrow transplant.