I am involved with a great group called the Sunshine Quilt Guild – an online group that makes quilts for kids around the world. We work through two programs: Wrap a Smile and Wrap Them in Love. Quilts go to kids undergoing cleft palate surgery and to children in orphanages worldwide. More info can be found at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sunshine/

http://www.rotaplast.org/partners/wrapasmile.php

http://www.wraptheminlove.org/

I have also donated to Downey, Quilts for Kids, Victoria Bushfire Quilts and Quilts for Leukemia. Keeps me shopping for fabric to help the economy!

Kathy T. in Tampa, FL

I haven't donated any quilts yet buy I just finished making about 15 pillowcases for the Million pillowcase challenge and need to bring them to my participating quilt shop... they are fun to make... even made baby ones...

I make quilts for Project Linus, Breast Cancer Research Foundation fund raisers, Crisis Nursery and for our Police & Fire Chiefs to carry in their vehicles.

Camp Watcha Wanna Do Cancer quilts for kids under 18. Has to be no less than 45 x 45 and any color or style we want.

Oh I love this one! I am partial to roses any way....this is just beautiful!

I sew with a wonderful group of ladies at my church. We call ourselves "Women of the Cloth" and we give our quilts to the sick and shut-ins from our parish.

I am part of a group of ladies who makes baby quilts app. 36 x 36 for the special needs nursery at our local hospital.

My guild makes table runners to give to Habitat for Humanity so each person who gets a home, receives a table runner.

Another local guild makes cuddle buddies, which is a small 18 x 18 blankie that is put in a matching bag with a teddy bear for the police to keep with them for when they come across a situation involving a child that needs comforting.

Another lady in my guild is in charge of the local Linus Blanket chapter and we have work days for that.

Quilters are big hearted, caring people! I loved reading all the previous posts on this subject!!!

I make a quilted wall hanging as a prize at the Basenji National each year. Basenjis are barkless dogs, originally from Africa, with a very dedicated following. A few years ago we found the gentic link responsible for fanconi, so we know what not 2 parents to put together so there's no need for any puppy to be born that will have this fatal disease. Just dogs, you say, who cares?
The organization that keeps track of the 200 children worldwide who have this awful kidnesy disease are using our extensive lists of pedigree knowledge so that hopefully our info will benefit children. It's so wonderful to be a part of that and I feel my work is going to a good cause.

I have made quilt blocks for "Quilts With Love" for quite a few years. Some volunteers make quilt tops, completed quilts, donate money for postage, or donate supplies. These are mailed to our fine young men and women in the armed forces, mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan. I heartily recomend this organization -- it is non-profit and doing a great service to those who are fighting for our freedom. This is their website:
www.quiltswithlove.org
Molly (texasmom)

I make quilts for QOV (Quilts of Valor)there are several online groups that do mystery QOV quilts which are really fun. Smallest size that QOV will accept is 55x65 and largest is 72x90. They provide longarmers for those that want to use the service.
Heres one that is a yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QOVqui...guid=395898198
and then persimmon quilts has a mystery quilt for QOV also.
If anyone is interested in QOV here is there website:
http://www.qovf.org/

I belong to the American Sewing Quild. Our local (Orlando) chapter has six neighborhood group with a dozen or more members. As ASG members, we are required to do several charity projects a year. We also have an abundance of nursing homes and Ronald McDonald houses. The hospitals also make requests. We sew for all of them making quilts from wheelchair throws and Linus quilts to full size ones for the nursing homes

I couldn't begin to count the pieces we've done in our 26 years of existance. My group of twelve just finished 94 pillowcases for RMcD

I belong to a community quilts group (about 25 of us) and we make isolets for the NICU at a local hospital.

I also help piece quilts in my guild.

I make crib size (36 by 48) and domate them to the Church for our out reach program for the poor. Batting I purchase when Hancocks puts it on sale for 40 and 50 % off. With that size it only takes 1 yard of batting. Most of the time I use the 6 1/2" square, half square triangle, arrangeing them different ways and sometimes try out a new design for my own 'fun'. Quilting is done FM----fun and relaxing.

Our church group makes them for members who have had surgery, illness, etc. My Quilt Guild does quilts for children going into foster care. The child gets to pick the one they want. I have made quilts the last 2 years for our local "Walk for Life".

I make quilts for the homeless/poor. I have a friend that is a Nun and she was telling me that there are 12 people living in the woods of my home town. This sadden me for this is America not a third world country. Needless to say I have 9 queen size quilts in the making, some are ready to quilt, some are ready to bind some are ready to suggle up to, but not today it must be 95 here. These are patchwork scrappy quilts. I am also going to make some children quilts, our police department give kids quilts when they are being taken from thier parents and given to DHS. This too is sad. I just hope they like the quilts

I have been donating and making quilts for Project Linus for the last 6 years, have done for QFK's, and my Guild donates to 6 local charities. I am assistant chapter coordinator in Tarrant/Parker Counties and we service JPS hospital, Cooke's Children, Harris, Warm house, CPS, CAC, adn about 15 others. We are one of the larger chapters, We have 82 members and get tons of wonderful donations every month. We also do Snowball Express for the military. I have enjoyed reading how everyone else contributes also. No matter what the cause or who, our motto is "We give HUgs with our quilts". Happy charity quilting ya'll.

Our guild does Linus quilts and once a year we have a presentation to the Linus organization lady. Usually they're just baby quilts (40x40 or so). Some people use cheater panels and they turn out sooooo cute!!! Others try something they've wanted to do but not sure how it will turn out. Sometimes when we have a class a group will decide on a color scheme and pool the blocks. I use a lot of the easy patterns at quiltville.com. The Boxy Stars is an easy one and yet it looks like you took lots of time.

A few of our senior women from church sew together on Thursday afternoon.We make crib size quilts as well as preemie dresses, booties and caps. We send our boxes out about every 3 months. Ours go to Children's hospital of New Orleans and Tulane Children's hospital also in N O, La.
We have two Womens hospitals here in Alexandria and we send each a box for the NICU units. Each box will contain at least 20 quilts.

Nanjun, You have a really beautiful picture. Wish I could look that good in my pics! LOL....

I make Linus quilts and quilts for Wrap-A-Smile as well as Quilts of Valor. I do some on my own and some with a group of ladies that meet on Tuesday afternoons. I always seem to have at least one quilt going for one of these groups. I enjoy giving them to the people who I know appreciate and love them.

I do them for Project Linus. Quilts , fleece with crocheted edges, crocheted and knitted, of various sizes.
If you go to the main Project Linus.com website, there are free patterns, for any craft you opt to do and various listings of the sizes we do.
And there are suggestions for the ones that are best for children in ICU situations, that won't get tangled in IV lines.

Our guild has a number of donation projects:
- Cuddle Quilts - go with emergency responders for children experiencing trauma (police, fire)
- ChildCan Quilts - for children undergoing cancer treatments
- Loads of Love - a missionary group that works in the 'stan' countries (Khasikstan, Usbekistan, etc) for orphanages etc
- quilts for families of fallen soldiers
- quiltlets (about 8" x 12") going to soldiers in active duty (they don't have a lot of room for a full quilt, but these small quiltlets can hang over their cots etc, are a small hug to let them know we are thinking of them

We also do an interesting thing with the block of the month program - the ladies running this program this year are asking quilters to make one for themselves and one to donate - and the organizers are putting the donated blocks into quilts for ChildCan.

On my own, I usually make quilts for Project Linus. This is my favorite place to donate quilts because I like the fact that this organization gives the quilts to childred from newborn to 18 years old. Also, it provides the quilts to individual kids, kids in group homes, hospitals, Ronald McDonald house, and those domestic violence shelters, just to name a few.

I used to make mine about 38 x 52 but after having had a couple of conversations with the local co-ordinator I have started making a larger size. We all like using those cute kids fabric for smaller kids quilts and they finish up so much quicker but there is a real shortage of the larger sizes for the older kids. I decided that I would focus on those and so I usually make the quilts now 50 x 70.

I usually make simple patterns keeping in mine that I want something I can quilt my self on my sewing machine with a walking foot.

The local quilt group that I belong to usually plans a day or two a year to work on charity quilts, usually for Project Linus. We do, however, also make other charitable projects such as pillows for heart patients, pillowcases for the local hospital pediatric ward, hats for cancer patients, and bags and pillows for breast cancer patients.

The Cabot Nimble Thimbles sewing group has been making quilts of valor for three years now. We send 24 quilts a month to Afghanistan and Germany. Never enough to cover all our wounded. The Quilts of Valor Foundation is not a political or religious organization. The purpose is to support our troops. It is all volunteer. Piecers and longarmers are teamed up. Everything is donated.

One of the leaders in our Project Linus group just posted to our site that two of ours had gone to the children of a police officer who was killed in the line of duty this week, in a Dallas suburb.

As long as our work brings comfort to children in need, it is always rewarding, and well worth the efforts.

I have donated kids quilts to Salvation Army at Christmas time. Last year I sewed decorative stitch around fleece to make blankets for our local Cancer treatment Center. Donated fleece blankets to "Love INC" (In the name of CHRIST) last Christmas. Also made fleece hat and scarf sets to donate to them as well and sending the hat/scarf sets and fleece blankets to my friend in Ohio for the Charity she works at.

I do quilts for the local pregnancy center(I try to do 1 a month) I try to make a quilt that I as a quilter would enjoy receiving, not just a panel with a little quilting on it, patterned quilts, like log cabins in bright colors, truck blocks(printed) with a nice sashing and cornerstones are stop signs. D9P with nice bright colors, don't think that boys are blue, and girls are pink. I also do an occasional quilt of valor.

I make the quilts myself, but they are given through my guild.

I make donation quilts for the Rainbow Bee of my guild. We provide quilts for the women's shelter and our local police department. I also meke quilts for our church for young girls who are having babies.

So many people making quilts! And good causes all!
WOW!!!

Our guild donates quilts to the Department of Family and Children's Services. Every child who enters the foster system in our county is given a quilt for his/her very own. The quilts are all sizes, all patterns and all colors--whatever strikes the fancy of the quilter. Since the children are all ages and both genders, the variety in quilts "works out."

I make Downy quilts also and I get mine form PA. The place here where I like has a Downy club but they are horrible to quilt so I just e-mailed the main office

I make donation quilts to my nearby Good Neighbor house. It is for homeless families that are picking themselves back up. I have done small 22x22 quilts for the Cat Rescue shelter. They put them in the cages so the cats are more comfortable - then when the cat is adopted the quilt goes to their new home with them. I just wish I could do more for them, I see to go in spurts.

I volunteer with our Guild for making baby quilts (crib size). They are donated to our local children's shelter.

My guild does charity quilts for many organizations in the area, so I do some for that. I have also made a lot for a local organization that services many agencies in the area. I used to do some for foster care until I found out that the caseworkers rarely grab a quilt for new foster kids. I've also done some for the woman's shelter and Head Start nap quilts as well as for needy Head Start families.

Memaw you are so kind. Thanks, that picture was made about 3 years ago and the best I ever had made. I am afraid the years are taking a toll on my looks as well as my physical condition. Blessings to you

I am doing Downy quilts and Wounded soldiers (for group I am in) and preemie blankets, also doing tops for another group.
Most of what I do is for groups that I am in.
whatever size that they need is the size and I make what they have doing. Sometimes just do what trips my trigger at the time

I quilt two charity quilts a year for free. I make 1 or 2 quilts for Newborns in Need and try to knit a blanket a year for Newborns in Need. I have made 14 pillowcases this year for the 1 Million pillowcase Challenge. I would like to do more but I'm not good at using my time wisely.

I make quilts for our froster home and our soldiers around our area .


Cookies.

I make quilt tops for Camp Reach for the Stars. It is a camp up in the local mountains for kids with cancer and their siblings. Then once a month our group meets and we sew the backs and give them to volunteer long-armers to quilt. Then the quilts rotate back to us and we do the binding. We usually pull from our stash. The kids really appreciate them !! I also make small quilts for the preemie unit at Kaiser Hospital. I have also made quilts for my granddaughters High School Band auction. I ususally use a music theme. I fogot, I am always making pillowcases for our local pediatric ward or the local Ronald McDonald House.

Our quilt guild meets twice a month. once for meeting and program and again to do quilts for charity. We make them for a group here called "Room at the Inn" and a second group called "My Own Little Bag". One group works with the homeless and the second provides a quilt and bag for a child removed from home because of "Meth Labs. I have also done the Downey quilts and Quilts of Valor.