Charity quilts

I'm making 52 quilts in 2018 for Jack's Basket, where babies with Down syndrome are celebrated. In May I worked on quilts 18, 19, 20 and 21: Quilt number 18 is quilted with Macaroni: Quilt number 19 is quilted with Pretty Paisley: Quilt number 20 is quilted with Baby Curls: Quilt number 21 is quilted with Spring Thing: The quilt pattern I'm using is "Simple Gifts" from the mini book, Fat Quarter Love, by Modern Quilt Studio. Do you have a go-to baby quilt pattern? I'm being affected by the…

Quilters often give their time and talents to make quilts for charity. These easy quilts offer instructions for multiple sizes, allowing you to access the correct size for the charity of your choice.

GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! I have a few quilts to share with you that I am giving to Mott's Children's Hospital for the NICU. I will li...

I set a goal for 2018 to make 52 charity quilts in 52 weeks. Join the community and share your charity makes too!

These are scraps left from Under the Big Top that I made last summer for a great nephew. This is a charity quilt and I also have learned a neat way to sew the binding on entirely by machine. Here is a close up!! These are leftover pieces from the Chevron quilt I made for another great nephew earlier this year. What shall I do?? I am pretty fond of strippy quilts so I started putting pieces in rows, cutting up a few larger pieces and all of a sudden I had a cool finished quilt! I am afraid my…

Fabric Café offers fast quilt patterns for your favourite non-profit organization during National Giving Month! You can make a 3-yard quilt in just a few hours, and it makes a great charity quilt. …

Quilters often give their time and talents to make quilts for charity. These easy quilts offer instructions for multiple sizes, allowing you to access the correct size for the charity of your choice.

I suppose it is inevitable, isn’t it? Many of us need ideas on how to use our scraps or pieces to make quick and easy charity quilts. Let me show you some common ones I use or HAVE used. 1. Simple squares in two colors For example, yellow and green or pink and purple - here are two of my early

This is a quick, fun, fat quarter friendly free pattern from Faith Jones, that I found on the WeAllSew website. The pattern calls for 12 fatquarters to make a 50" x 60" quilt. I made mine smaller at 40" x 50" using 10 fatquarters. I fell in love with the large paw print fabric for the backing. Resting under the Sycamore tree. We love this big, beautiful, ancient tree even though it loves to make a mess of our yard and driveway when shedding it's bark. Machine quilted in an uneven grid. I'll…

I've been on a roll with the charity quilts this year. It's a great way to practice quilting or try out new things. Here are the two I finished this week. The first one is a more girly quilt. I quilted one of my favorite patterns ever, Ginger Blossoms, on it. The second is the second I Spy quilt I made with some bug fabrics I'd had forever. I tried a new quilting pattern, Cobblestones, on it to complement the black fabric. It's very hard to see, but the black fabric has small circles on it…