For those who make quilts to donate to organizations --
what organizations to you donate to?

Do you belong to a group that does them or do you do them on all your own?

What size quilts to you make and how complicated of a pattern do you generally use?

Lots are doing the Quilts for Kids from Downy at the moment

I make Downy quilts, they have 2 sizes that they request and provide kits with patterns.

I make other quilts, I choose whatever pattern strikes me at the moment, and I make them a very large lap sized.

I made a full size one for our No kill cat shelter, and a few lap size.

Make quilts for wounded and fallen soldiers

Hello ~

I make charity quilts with a few women here in S.C. I founded Touching Christ's Children Blankie Ministry. We have just completed making 125 quilts for our County Dept. of Social Services. They are so grateful for the quilts. The Dept. houses abused, neglected and/or abandoned children on a regular basis. We also make quilts for sick children. We make and send quilts to who ever is in need or less blessed. It is a blessing to do this for the children.

We welcome volunteers locally and State wide. I have a few women from other states that send quilts to us. They helped us tremendously to make the 125 quilts.

We have a yahoo group that you can check out if interested:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Touchi...ankieMinistry/

Have a great day!
Dar

I make "American Hero" quilts that go to wounded soldiers.

I also make "Child Delight" quilts. Every child in our county who goes into foster care gets a quilt to keep.

I am also asked for things for almost every fundraiser that happens in our area. So I try to keep some table runners, placemats and small quilts on hand for those events. 'Cuz they don't usually give you a lot of notice!

I make lap quilts (about 40 x 40)for nursing home. I also make some "walker caddies" for nursing homes. The lap quilts are simple, just a top, mayb 4 or 9 patch with a flannel back and tied. No batting. This way I don't have that much expense in them as I have lots of scraps in my stash.

I make a quilt 66 x 77 every year and donate it to the Relay for Life. This year the quilt was a Christmas pattern and it was quilted with Christmas ornaments on the back that could be seen on the back because I used a solid color on the back.. My team sells chances on the quilt. The lady that does my quilting in Perry, Iowa, dontated half of the cost of quilting, seeing as it was going to Relay for Life

I have done a quilt for Downey. I did one for Balboa Hospital Kids/ Now I will be working on Binky Patroll Kids Quilts as I am the director for Western South Dakota. So I think I will be working on those a bit, I realy want to work on Quilts of Valor, but will have to wait awhile until I get some more fabric for those.

I've been making quilts for Project Linus for the past 5 years. Also do quilts for our local hospital's palliative care unit, veteran's homes and shelters .

I've been making quilts for Project Linus for the past 5 years. Also do quilts for our local hospital's palliative care unit, veteran's homes and shelters .
All are lap quilts 40" x 40", made with a quilting group of about a dozen women and one gentleman who hand sews only RWB quilts for veterans. Some have been sent to the Army hospital in Germany and we've even received notes from the servicemen.

I have made quilts for Downey. Also donated bed size, both twin and queen to Fisher House (Military Rehab),bed size for our local Christian Help Center (transition housing where families can stay 3 mos), baby size tops for our local hospitals beginning mothers program. Many of the baby tops are fairly simple tied quilts. Others are more complicated patterns that I wanted to try but had no original purpose for. I have also made over 150 pillowcases last year for the Foster Kids programs. Not as many this year but I'm still working on them. I hope to donate more to Fisher House this year.

Our quilt guild makes about one hundred donation quilts ranging in size from 30" square quilts for incubators at the local hospital to queen sized quilts for families who have had a house fire. Many of our quilts go to the Abused women's shelter, Youth Shelter, Victim Services, Children's Aid Society, Hospice and the Pallative Care Unit at the local hospital. We also do pillow cases fo ConKer Cancer and touch quilts for Alzheimer's patients at the nursing homes. I lead many of the workshops to construct these quilts as well as make several of my own at home to add to my guild's donations.

I'm doing Downey quilts, and my guild does quilts for wounded soldiers, the local battered women's center, the local fire and police departments (to use when they respond to a situation where there may be traumatized kids). I usually use a fairly simple pattern for them, like rail-fence or Japanese Brick Road.

I'm heading up a church project for quilts for the Charlotte Ronald McDonald House for their grand opening in Dec/Jan. I've made several tops and and we are going to have a get together for tying and quilting them in about a month. RMH specifically asked for throw size so I try to get close to 50 x 60. I prefer simpler quilts but sometimes I bite off more than I can chew and end up spending time on more complicated ones. The local guilds always have charity projects to work on too.

Shelbie, would you possibly share your suggestions for the touch quilts for dementia patients in nursing homes.
I am interested in overall size and types of materials used. Thank you for your service to others.

I've done a couple of Quilts for Kids, and I'm in the process of making a sampler quilt of Biblical blocks for a church raffle to benefit the Dominican Republic mission that they do every year...

Quilts for kids. That's my only one.

I make for soliders, I have given directly to several, I volunteer to teach a 3 week(one Sat ea) class for Project Linus, each student donates the quilt they make and I usually donate atleast one also. Just donated 2 baby quilts through my guild.

1st I make quilts for my church, they are lap size. They are called "Love Quilts" . They are given to those in the church that are sick, lost a spouse, had a fire etc.

2nd I make them for the community for those that had fires etc. Theses can be lap but sometimes twin, double etc.

3rd. I make them for a local organization call C.H.I.O.R.. They go to orphanages in Ethiopia. These are crib and twin.

Due to the urgent nature, they are simple; Rail Fence, 4 or 9 patch etc.
All the material is donated. Sometimes blocks are donated and once and a while full tops. it is my job, (joy) to put them together. They are almost always tied, due to time and cost.

Downy Quilts for kids, they send you the fabric, pattern, backing (you just need to buy thread, batting) and make it and return it to them

All pieced by machine and quilted by machine! (no hand stitching allowed)

you can sign up here, free
and if you want more kits you can email (makes a great project for quilting guilds, quilters, sew days, etc.)

http://www.quiltsforkids.org/volunteer/

I longarm quilt quilts for American Heros, they get sent to Afghanastan for the wounded military personnel who are being flown from there to Germany in air cargo planes and the quilts help keep the wounded warm during the flight and they get to keep their quilts. I have done 85 of these since this February. These are roughly twin size.

I also do quilts for the Kitsap Kuddles which is for the local hospital for newborn babies and infants who are at high risk due to drugs and other abuse. Regular baby size.

I make them for Project Linus and the Wounded Warriors program. I also have made them for silent auction fundraisers for the local zoo and museum.

I have made two recently for downey kids, two for ALS patients, I have made several for a cancer infusion center at a local hospital, I have given kid quilts to firefighters charities. Amazing how many good causes want quilts, even more amazing how many quilters donate! I applaud all of you for your generosity. Quilters are awesome!

Both the guilds I am in make what are called "Quilted Hugs" -- these are quilts that are donated to the local hospitals (used to be called ABC Quilts under a national umbrella but it went under) for their preemie units. The quilts are put over the isolets, then go home with the babies. We have a guild "collection day" once per year when we get a ton of them all at once, but many of the ladies donate all year (and don't "save" them up). These quilts are at least 36 x 36, and don't vary too much from that size.

A BOM group I've been in for a while started this year off making blocks for larger quilts which we will donate at year's end to a local shelter or to Ronald McDonald House. We are using the "wonky star" block which is very easy and quick, and one of the members has committed to putting the blocks together and doing the quilting by the next month's meeting. They look great!

We do kids quilts for the local hospital, all sizes from premies to larger quilts for tweens. This year our guild VP got us started on Chemo quilts to give to the Chemo patients at the same hospital this was very well received with the nurses even donating batting to help us. At next months meeting it is going to be a quilt in for this. I have 3 tops to share with you soon. I hope to get about 6 scrap quilts done before Christmas to give to the homeless that live in out Walmart parking lot around Christmas time in their cars. Last year we had about 10 everynight. This year may be more, this breaks my heart. I also give my friend a lot of extra material for her group who makes small pillows for our Soldiers in Afganistan, she said her group has gotten many Thank You's from these kids.

The Touch quilts that my guild makes for Alzheimer's patients at the nursing homes are usually about 40" square. Some people refer to them as figit quilts and they are all about the texture and "feel". Many people with advanced dementia seem to spend a lot of their time rubbing or flailing their hands and seem agitated. The quilts are a good size to cover their laps and give them something to stoke or pick at. We choose the fabric for the texture, everything from upholstery, corduroy, terry, Minke, fleece, flannel, nubby, satin or anything else that feels different. We also use trims such as giant rick rack We just used simple squares, 8 1/2" as I had this size ruler and 25 squares would make the approximate finished size. Happy stitching for some very needy deserving seniors.

Thanks, My son is a combat controller and I know they appreciate anything anyone does for any of the military. Do you by any chance know about Wounded Warriors for Special Operations soldiers or Wounded Warriors? They raise money, and have fund raisers for the wounded and family of deceased soldiers.

Today will be my first day as the coordinator for our guilds' Reaching Out program. It's been on-going for several years and the "leaders" change off every so often. We make baby to twin size quilts for local organizations.

Our church quilting group had donated 59 sets of booties, 39 baby quilts, 69 lap quilts, 9 baby bibs, 26 adult bibs, 26 large stuffed animals, 9 small stuffed animals, 18 hospital gowns,27 nursing home capes, 9 baby burping pads, 24 Little Loving Buddies and 24 walker totes and 21 quilts for Romania. Also our local Hospice gave us 10 regulation 3x5 American flags which we backed and tied. They use them to cover the body of a Veteran being taken to the mortuary. It is then returned to Hospice and reused. These totals are for January 2010 to May 15, 2010. We donate to Hospice, a couple of nursing homes and HOPE for Unwed Mothers.

Warning--this is going to be too long:)

One guild I'm a member of, makes make 'cuddle quilts' for a shelter for displaced women and children. Members of my other guild make them for a children's home in the area. We also make small quilts (and add a small stuffed toy to each), for the members of the local police department to keep in their vehicles, so when responding to calls with children involved, they can give them something to keep with them. One of our members collects really little--maybe 17" by 20"-- quilts to take to neo-natal wards for the teeny ones.

I send all my scraps to a lady in Michigan who makes quilts for animal shelters. She uses any and any kind of fabric/thread/etc, to make quilts for animals in several rescue groups.
rusty

Our church quilting group makes quilts for Lutheran World Relief. http://www.lwr.org/beinvolved/quilts.asp The senior center donated boxes and boxes of wonky 5" squares, so we use those as much as we can, plus other donated fabrics. They are pretty much large square patches (not too fancy, so they don't go to the black market). My persponal goal is to piece 12 per year. The group gets together three times a month to tie them.

I also donate to Project Linus.

Here's a sample of one of my LWR tops.

I would like some information, sounds like a wonderful cause. My Son and Daughter in law are both in the Air Force and I know they have told me anything anyone does for them when away is very much appreciated. I can't even imagine losing one of them.

My neighbor and I have for 8 years or so been quilting 2x/month for charity with a floating assortment of other temporary workers. We have made donations to Project Linus, Red Cross lap quilts for Srs, Home nursing service, foster care children, Christmas"adopt-a-family" programs and "Snoopy quilts" for the ASPCA.
At first, we purchased everything, but now we get a lot of fabric donations, so we buy batting and thread. We use very simple piecing, often with large pieces. For a long while we had one person who tied all the quilts, but she is doing other things now, so I am practicing freehand machine quilting on these. (There's a new challenge for me!)

We enjoy the comraderie, the giving, the chance to "recycle" unwanted fabric by using our creativity.

I try to make a quilt top a week and then meet on Thursdays with a group of wonderful ladies and tie the quilts. We have a constant supply of charities who we donate to. Detention centers, homeless houses, needy families, mission fields, etc.

The quilt guild I'm in donates to several chartities. A homeless shelter, sheriff's dept. (for kids in domestic situations), pregnancy homes, etc.

Operation Quiet Comfort..

Has several different programs, one is the denim larger quilts they send you the signed denim squares and if available most of the supplies ( backing and batting ) to make the quilts. Another one they do are the small lap quilts 30 x50 , you supply everything. They also accept crochet and knitted blankets :thumbup:

I'm working on my third Downy quilt and also gave one to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative a few weeks ago. I'd like to make a Valor Quilt some time, but I haven't looked at the rules yet.

Binky Patrol. We do comforting covers for kids (and sometimes adults) who are in hospitals, foster care, homeless, shelters. www.binkypatrol.org. I am the area coordinator for San Dimas, California. My group does between 20 to 40 quilts a month, mostly quilts, but some crochet, knitting and lots of stuffed animals.