At least 1,330 Quilts Made and Donated in 2011!
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Each year the Santa Rosa Quilt Guild makes and donates quilts and baby caps to organizations serving people in need in our community.
Our charity quilts start with fabric from your own stash, or from fabric that has been generously donated to the guild by members or others. Guild fabric is available at each meeting, in packages of pre-cut squares and border fabric for construction of tops. Best sizes to make are listed below. 32” x 40” is our most needed size, as it serves the babies at Sutter and Memorial Neonatal Intensive Care Units, as well as babies visited by the Visiting Nurses and Teen Moms program.
Several times a year, the guild holds “Quilt-a-thons” after meetings to prepare the quilts to be donated. Guild members are encouraged to stay and participate in Quiltathons by helping with the many tasks involved, including basting, sewing and machine quilting. Members may bring sewing machines, but there are lots of tasks to do by hand as well. Quiltathons are lots of fun!
Between Quiltathons, members may also take quilts home to finish or work on. In addition, 5th Thursday Retreats offer another opportunity to work on the quilts to be donated; we usually focus on quilting and finishing on those days.
The organizations we donate to are very grateful, and tell us how much the families appreciate and benefit from the quilts we are able to share with them. Thank you to everyone for your efforts in making this possible.

Come check out the Community Quilts display board at guild meetings and speak with our chairpeople for more information. The Community Quilts committee has many aspects and welcomes members’ further involvement at any time.
If you are making donation quilt tops on your own, we encourage you to make them baby size, which is by far our biggest need:
32” x 40” Baby quilts (These are our biggest need. We usually distribute 800+ a year!)
Click here to download a complete chart of sizes for all those we serve.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on the links below to download details about making Community Quilts:
“The Steps for Community Quilts” includes instructions for each step of assembly.
PATTERNS
Click on the links below to download instructions for knitted and crocheted baby caps and easy baby quilts.
Fast and Fabulous Baby Quilts
Crocheted Premie Caps
