[Please note this contest has ended.]
This week’s Best Quilts for Kids fabric giveaway is a little different from the ones we’ve been doing here on our blog all summer. Over the past few weeks we’ve heard from so many of you who have special kids in your lives or already-loved babies-on-the-way. But we’ve also heard from a good number of folks who make kids quilts for charities and outreach programs: kids who are receiving treatment for cancer; kids in domestic abuse or homeless shelters; babies born to young, single mothers; infants in neonatal care units who may never make it home… We’ve been touched by how many of you pour your hearts into creating quilts for kids you may never meet, just so that they know people out there care about them.
And now we want in on the action. So we’ve saved a variety of bundles just for this week’s giveaway. Up for grabs are four soft book panels from the QT Library; four flannel Baby Burpin’ Cloths as seen on page 40 of Best Quilts for Kids; a fat-eighth bundle from Connecting Threads’ My Little Farm collection; a fat-quarter bundle of the pink colorway of Scrappy & Happy Baby from Northcott; and a half-yard bundle of prints from the blue colorway of Child’s Play with Kate & Nate from Northcott.
We will divide the bundles between two winners, and one winner will also receive a copy of 45 Quilt Blocks: Animals by Trice Boerens from Lark Crafts.
If you’d like a chance to win a prize bundle, leave us a comment before 11:59 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Friday, August 5 describing the organization you make quilts for and the community it serves. We will pick two comments at random, and the winners will receive fabric bundles and copies of Best Quilts for Kids. In exchange, the winners promise to send us photos of the quilts made with their winnings and an update about where the quilts went — we want to share the warm-fuzzies, too! (And folks, we’re working on the honor system here, so please only enter the drawing if you know the fabric will be used for charity quilts. Thank you!)
Comments left after 5:00 p.m. will be approved the next business day, so don’t worry if your comment doesn’t show up right away. If you’ve won something from us in the past 3 months, you’re not eligible for this prize.
Good luck! Don’t forget, Best Quilts for Kids is on-sale at newsstands, quilt shops, bookstores, large craft/fabric stores and online. As always, the best way to learn about giveaways and contests is to follow us on Facebook.
UPDATE: We have winners! First of all, let us reiterate how touched we were by all your comments. You all are doing some great work out there and we’re happy to be able to support you in your efforts.
Because of your overwhelming generosity, we dug a little deeper into our sewing room and came up with some more fabric we think might work for charity quilts. As a result, this morning we drew three numbers, not just two, and will split up the fabric between the three. Those three are: #83, Diane Fields; #94, Pat; and #104, Raine Lampert. Congrats! Please contact us at submissions@qnm.com with your mailing addresses so that we can ship your prize packages to you. We can’t wait to see photos of whatever you make (we understand it might take a little while to see the results, but we’re patient).
Again, thank you to all who participated!
I am working on some pillowcases that get donated for kids with cancer at the local hospitals. The smiles that come across their faces is priceless.
My guild makes quilts and pillow cases for the domestic violence center in our area as well as pillow cases for the childrens units at the local hospitals. Every year On National Quilting Day we present the first baby born at each area hospital that day with a special quilt. This past year a guild member passed away and she had a passion for Ronald McDonald House so we have now chosen them as one of our charities and have been making new quilts and pillowcases for all of the beds in the house as well as a quilt to be gifted to each child when they go home.
The small circle of quilters I am part of meet monthly and we make baby quilts for various local organizations. The most recent being a bed size quilt being raffled off to help out with medical expenses for a family who just had a baby with lots of complications.
Our group Blankets of Blessings; Shawls of Solace is a community outreach that gives quilted blankets and knit/crochet shawls to those that are sick, hurt or have lost a loved one. We gift wrap them, put a card in them and deliver to the person. Since The first part of March 2011 we have handed out 44 of them, that is alot for only 6 people to do. We have given to 2 children with Leukemia, 1 with cancer. We were just contacted by the local hospital if we could supply them with items for the parents to keep after losing their newborn children. Iwould really like to surprise the other two quilters with NEW fabric to work with as all our stuff is either donated or things we have had in our own stash. To live in a small community that have small budgets I am very proud to say we have made as many shawls and blankets as we have with as little as we have! Thank you for this great giveaway!
I make quilts for Missouri Festival of Sharing baby bundles, kids with cancer, hospice patients at North Kansas City, and my Sunday School kids! I really enjoy giving them!
Our group of about 6-8 ladies make quilts for Quilts of Valor and Project Healing Waters. We made 9 quilts for Quilts of Valor in about 6 weeks And about 9 for Project Healing Waters in about the same period of time. We also make a raffle quilt to help with the costs of our town’s 4th of July fireworks.
This is such a wonderful giveaway! My guild donates quilts to our local area welfare department (servicing 12 towns). I would love to win for our guild! Thanks sew much for the chance to win!!!
Our guild, including me, makes receiving blankets for the Dell Children’s Hospital, neo-natal unit and quilts for the Project Linus organization to donate in the Austin TX area. We try to donate at least 30 receiving blankets a month to the Children’s Hospital and regular donate quilts to Project Linus.
I would love to win this prize! I love quilting and enjoy making quilts for my friends and family.
My quilt group, donates quilts to the police and fire departments, for kids in bad situations. We also donate to the Ronald McDonald house and the Lions Club to help raise money for the equipment they need for childhood screenings. Last year we made over 400 pillowcases for Koncur Cancer, mainly in prints for kids. I know they aren’t children, but we just finished 20 quilts that are going to patients at our local VA hospital too. We would love to have great fabrics to work with!
My Girl Scout Troop makes lap-sized rag quilts & donates them to the Women’s Domestic Violence Shelter in Newark, OH. Winning beautiful fabric would enable us to make more beautiful quilts. My girls voted on this charity as women helping women.
I am currently in a challenge to make items for the St. John’s Hospital in Joplin, MO. The hospital was destroyed by a tornado in May of this year. Our commitment is 100 baby quilts to be sent home with the first 100 babies born in the new Baby Unit. receiving blankets, newborn beanie hats, and hand mitts. Thank you for the op to win this great giveaway.
I am a member and past officer of the Lake County Quilters Guild in Mt. Dora, FL. We have a thriving friendship quilt program which provides hundreds of charity quilts each year. The quilts are donated to programs such as Angel Flight, Guardian Ad Litem, ConnKerr Cancer, and to local hospitals and women’s shelters. The scramble to get good, quality fabric to make kits for our members would be helped immensely by such a lovely prize as you are offering. Thanks for your generosity!
Would love to win this for making quilts for the charity group I belong to. The group is World of Charity Stitching.
I belong to Quilters Above the Clouds in Woodland Park, CO. Our guild has donated hundreds of quilts to the Teller County Department of Social Services (for the children who are clients of the department), Tessa, Habitat for Humanity, the Pregnancy Center, the Southern Colorado Aids Project, and others. We are always looking for “kids’ fabrics,” so being chosen for one of the prizes would be a wonderful surprise for the dedicated volunteers who work on the donation quilt projects.
The Will of God Ministries in Clover, SC is starting up a quilting clutch for the women of our small ministry to promote fellowship within the ministry and to help newborn babies in the neo-natal units in the communities we serve which include Charlotte & Gastonia, NC as well as Clover, SC. I will be instructing the ladies on how to make the quilts. Sewing machines have been donated but we have no children’s quilting cottons or flannels. We know that God will supply what is needed so that we may minister to these the newest and smallest of God’s children that they and their parents will feel the loving care of others.
I belong to Piecing Partner’s quilt Guild in Colorado Springs. We make all sizes of quilts for the Department of Human Services, First Visitor, and special cases for people going through emergency situations (fire, the Japan earthquake, tornadoes). Just like most charity groups, we are always short of children’s fabric so if we win, it will be used right away!
Im a grandma with custody of my granddaughter who loves quilts!!
I belong to Thimbleweeds in Rio Rancho, NM. We donate to several organizations around our community including Ronald McDonald House, fire and police depatments, Store House, battered womens shelters and several others. We also make quilts to donate for raffles for schools, Lions Club, a local home for children as well as various other groups. We are always in need of good quality fabrics of all kinds. We would love to win these for the kids! Thank you for the chance to win for our kids.
I make quilts for children and adults who have no hope. Most have been given to kids diagosed with cancer. I do this own my own but I always have a home for a new quilt. I made one for a young man in Portland OR, who today is still struggling but is doing ok. I have had friends take quilts to other countries and give them to people dying of Aids.
My quilt guild, RIVER BEND QUILT GUILD, makes quilts for the community. We donate to Hannah’s House for unwed mothers, our local hospice house has permanent quilts from our guild, we donate directly to the local hospitals, local nursing homes and we make garments for stillborn babies. Last year we donated over 125 quilts. We use any fabric donated from many sources including our own members. We have a book of about 14 easy patterns as suggestions for our charity quilts, and have put it on a CD now for our members.
Many of us also donate to ALZHEIMER’S ART QUILT INITIATIVE, 1,000,000 PILLOWCASES, QUILTS OF VALOR, CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS FOR THOSE DEPLOYED FOR SERVICE and many other charities.
We have an annual auction of our “no longer needed” supplies, UFO’s, books and magazines to raise funds for batting and backings.
These fat quarters and books would bring a smile to a little child’s face.
I make quilts for my daughters donation program Blankets of Love. Several years ago when my daughter Torrie just 14 she earned her Girl Scout Silver award my making more than 50 rag quilts, she called her project Blankets of Love. Since that time she and her friends have made about 200 more Blankets of Love. Some of them have gone as far away as Texas (to help hurricane Ike kids) Most stay locally and go to local hospitals, Pregnancy centers, out reach programs for substance abuse moms (who are turning their lives around) and our local migrant farm workers daycare’s. The coolest thing, Torrie who is now 17 and a senior in high school has gotten her friends involved. They get together every couple of months and have a quilting day! There is nothing in this world like watching a group of 5 or 6 17 year old girls having a quilting bee! So if I win, I would add to the girl’s donation stash (all the fabric they use is either donated from the community, or purchased by my) So every little bit helps.
Thank you for letting me share.
Gin
I sew quilts with a group called “Love Quilts”. We are from a Methodist church and give
to anyone who needs love and supports,mostly children.
My guild makes quilts for several organizations in our area. The children who are in the foster care system or entering a homeless shelter or a shelter for abused women receive a quilt that becomes theirs to keep. These materials would be very welcome to be used for quilts for those children.
What a fantastic idea, Congratulations to whomever came up with this wonderful give away. Keep up the great work.
Love ya
I’ve been led to make quilts for innocent victims of life’s circumstances. Heart to Heart is a fledgling endeavor to bring comfort quilts to kids. The first 12 quilts will be ready to go with Village Makeover (non-profit) to Cyanika, Rwanda in mid-September. Why Cyanika, Village Makeover? Differences between minority Tutsi and majority Hutu peoples were stirred up in 1994. Nearly one million Rwandans, including widows and orphans in Cyanika became the poorest of the poor. Village Makeover has succeeded in training widows to earn income through raising and selling rabbits and goats and has put 51 roofs on houses so they are out of the elements (the people build the house, Village Makeover puts on the roof). 26 children are starting their 3rd year of school. However, the impact of Village Makeover efforts are farther reaching. One life changed, begins to inspire hope in another. When the government asked Village Makeover what the key to their success was, they said, “it’s love.” Village Makeover and Cyanika, Rwanda are giving me an opportunity to impact lives. I love bringing a new dimension to this effort. A little bit of comfort to kids who have nothing.
Fabric is beautiful – I do charity work for several charities – love to make baby/children quilts – Always so many ideas floating in head
I make quilts for the Quilts for Kids group; they work in conjunction with Downy’s Touch of Comfort program to give quilts to children in hospitals across the country. I get a kit from them and then make one up from my stash or whatever, so they get 2 back. It’s fun and the kids love them.
I belong to three quilt guilds in the Phoenix, AZ area, all of which sew charity quilts for various organizations. The Foothills Quilt Guild makes premmie quilts and isolette covers for Arrowhead Hospital. Daisy Mountain Quilters make quilts for Ryan’s House, a hospice organization, and Busy Bees are making pillowcases for the Veteran’s Hospital, and quilts for the Crisis Center.
Our group called “Peaceful Hearts Quilting Bee” is justa about 2 yrs. old. Our small group makes quilts for Project Linus and our local family abuse center. In addition we started making items for a basket for “Basket of Hope” for the annual fund raiser for Christian Women’s Job Corp. In the past two years we have made about 100 quilts total for these two major organizations. It has been a real joy for us to help others and enjoy our love of quilting and fellowship at the same time. Project Linus provides us with free kits. We have no funds to support us so we accept fabric from those who wish to donate them to us. Much of our stash comes from donations after people have garage sales or who are cleaning out their sewing rooms. What is not donated we pay out of our pockets. The women are so giving and generous. Fabric packets from this drawing will thrill the ladies in our bee and provide quilts for needy children.
I sew with a small group of women, Kindred Hearts and Hands, and we make quilts for Camp Whatchawannado, a camp for cancer kids, and also for the local pregnancy center as well as the free well mom’s and baby clinic. It is such a blessing to each of us to give back in a way we enjoy. We are funded only by our love for others and any donations of fabric is always received joyfully. Thanks for doing this giveaway.
I have been doing Quilts for Kids… they send you a quilt kit that you make up and then make up another one to send back to them for kids in hospitasl all over the USA….
Thank you for this special chance for the wonderful fabric treats that will end up to a great cause. There are so many!
Tree City Quilt Guild in Gainesville, Florida makes NICU quilts for Shands Healthcare, among other projects.
God bless quilters!
I belong to 2 groups who make quilts to give away. The Hearts and Hands group at our church make quilts for Linus project, and my quilt group make quilts for the local hospitals and also the cancer center. We have also made pillowcases for Conker Cancer. We are always looking for fabric especially for children.
I am one of many who make quilts for Project Linus. The quilts are given to babies through teens who are hospitalized and need a hug in the form of a warm comfy quilt. When we have an over flow or demand warrants it, we also donate quilts to womans shelters and homeless shelters. We give where the need is greatest. All our materials are donated by the public at large and our many members. The many people who do this never do it for any other reason than the pure joy of giving. There are many Chapters of Project Linus, but ours is by far the best. We service Northwestern Pennsylvania proudly! Thank you for the chance to add to our stash and continue to help our community. Keep up the good work.
I belong to the Highlands County Quilt Guild in Sebring Florida and we make quilts for the Humane Society, Veterans Hospice, and Little Lambs. I also make Quilts for Kids for the local hospital here. There are so many good causes for anyone to do.
I crochet mittens, baby afghans every year and donate them to the local food bank, and Salvation Army at Christmas time. As a new quilter I have made a couple of quilts to donate this year and will be making a few more which will be going to the local food bank and Salvation Army.
Thanks for giving everyone the opportunity to win a prize bundle.
The 8-14 year old girls in the Brookfield Public Library Quiltmakers would love to work with fabric like this to make our charity quilts. We donate them to Project Linus in Oak Park, Illinois. Some of our last set went to the tornado victims in Joplin, MO.
I have just found a local quilting group that quilots for children with cancer and for children temporarily housed in homes for battered women and children and I am so excited to find a place to donate the quilts I love to make but just can’t keep! Quilting is so addictive, isn’t it?!
Our guild here in Peoria makes quilts for the St. Jude Midwest Affiliate – all those kids going through chemotherapy, we make sure they stay warm and then the get to take the quilt home with them.
Another recipient of our efforts is The Center for Prevention of Abuse – some of the abused show up there with just the clothes on their backs, and are grateful that when they leave they can take the quilt with them that has given them comfort.
We are also 40 miles from Project Linus headquarters and another guild I belong to is addressing their needs, as well as we are making pillowcases this year for ConKerr Cancer who has a goal of 44,000 of these pillowcases. We hope to make an effort to help them, and plan a sewing evening to make up kits of our own we have put together. It seems like a lot, but then there are so many who need what we can provide.
Finally the larger guild I belong to also makes special NICU quilts to place under babies in isolettes in the Neonatal Unit so they don’t have to lay on sterile white sheets. They are well used and well loved and stay in the unit until they fall apart from washing. We usually have around 200 of the tiny 14 x 18 and 36 x 36 inch quilts for their use each year.
Wow, reading all these messages has left me without words. I am so glad that there are so many people out there that give from the heart to help others. I am the regional coordinator for Conkerr Cancer Los Angeles an can tell you that there are alot of wonderful people here in Los Angeles and the surrounding area that are extremely giving. For information on what we do — go to our website http://www.conkerrcancerla.org. We make wonderful pillowcases for children her in the area who are fighting a battle with cancer at 4 area hospitals. Keep up the wonderful work ladies and gents, your are truly angels sent here to make the lives of others a little happier or better. God Bless you all!
LOVE IT!! Love quilting especially baby and small children quilts – and love to do animal quilts – I think every child no matter their circumstances deserves an homemade quilt made by people who care.
for christmas im gonna try to make enough pillows and quilts and give them to a homeless shelter if we ever find one and get enough fabric
Thank you! I just received my package of fabrics and the book. Oh, so wonderful! I’m looking forward to making more baby quilts for Hills and Hollers Ministries in McCreary County, Kentucky.
I started Luv Blankies for Foster Kids over 10 years ago and we have delivered over 2,500 quilts in great bags filled with books, beanie hats, stuffed animals, etc. We work with social workers and therapists. I am so glad many others are helping kids but this group of children are usually forgotten. We are also covering chemo patients and elderly “forgotten” people in rest homes with our Blankies. I am in California but I have friends in Birmingham, AL who have started doing the same. Does anyone know how they can get donations of fabric for their work. (Robert Kaufman in Los Angeles provides most of our fabric.) I have a long-arm quilter and a QBot to help me really produce a lot of quilts for these deserving people. God bless you for helping others.