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At least 1,330 Quilts Made and Donated in 2011!

 

Sutter Hospital Neonatal ICU

214

Sutter Hospital Labor & Deliv 70

SR Memorial Hospital Neonatal ICU

148

Visiting Nurses

99

Sonoma Co Teen Parents

26

Valley of the Moon Home

 104

Catholic Charities

174

Community Child Care Council (4 C's)

54

Secret Santa

110

Easter Seals

43

Sonoma Dev. Center

15

Welfare League (Doll Quilts)

100

Veterans Home

3

Rotary East

20

YMCA Safehouse

30

W-Warrior Camp Pendleton

4

Meals on Wheels

10

Relay For Life

3

Living Room

1

Homeless Task Force

 1

Thrivient Financial

 25

Others

 180-200
 Delivered Quilts in 2011 (approximately)

 1330

Knited and Crochet Hats

656

Thank you Everyone

 

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.

QUILT SIZES
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

Knit Premie Hat



 

 

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