KalamaQuilts

thank you so much for all your great suggestions! something to suit everyone for sure.
we all share in binding the quilts, on a long arm there isn't anything we can do about layering, thats on the machine.
all the backing fabric has been donated.
Neither one of them would care to have anyone work their machine. I'd faint away if something went wrong while using one of them.
We are a group of 10 or less and we donate to a kitty each gathering, that has bought all the batting that wasn't donated.
I suggested tying but old hands weren't willing to go that route.
Even so we donated 35 finished quilts this last year, plus smaller 45X60 quilts to the fire and police here, and we'll replace them as needed.
Smaller projects will be just the ticket I think, if you think of anything more please add them to the list, thank you again.

kdias

Quilted Hugs are a good thing for older people. The pattern is free on google, and there are some good videos showing how to make them. My 82 year old mother came across these and asked me to make her one, so I made several and she has had fun giving them to her friends.

QuiltE

Perhaps you could leave us a link? Thanks!

bkay

I belong to a group that is one of the "friendship" groups of my quilt guild. we do community service projects. Our main receivers are a medicaid nursing home, what used to be called an unwed mother group and a church related children's home. We make lap quilts for the nursing home, baby quilts for the mother's group and bed quilts for the children's home. We have several long arm owners who are members of the guild who do the large quilts.

For the lap quilts for the nursing home, we just quilt them. I usually do straight line quilting, as I have not yet learned to do free-motion quilting. My quilts keep the older folks warm just as well as the ones that are free-motioned. I make great "I Spy" quilts for the young ones.

Just play to your strengths. Just don't take on huge quilts. There are lots of needs for smaller quilts that don't require long arming.

bkay

aashley333

Quilted hug quilts

I inverted them for a wheelchair quilt!

kdias

I just did a search on google and there are several places information about Quilted Hugs is available. There are also numerous YouTube videos available, and a Facebook page called Quilted Hugs Project.

OurWorkbench

Here are a couple of pdf files for the quilted hug
https://gwinnettquiltersguild.org/wp...g-Project-.pdf
https://www.edmondquiltguild.us/imag...ions_by_JB.pdf