Promoting and Perpetuating Comfort Quilt Program |
Capital Quilters Guild members complete and donate hundreds of comfort quilts each year to organizations throughout Wake County and surrounding areas. Comfort Quilt kits are available at each monthly meeting for quilters who wish to make a quilt for donation to a local agency. Each kit consists of fabric for a quilt top, backing and binding along with a pattern to use in completing the quilt. Batting is available upon request. Quilters may use their own pattern and materials, if they prefer. Quilt tops or blocks as well as fabric, thread and other quilt-making materials which are donated the guild are used in this program. Partial quilts which are donated are completed by other quilters within the guild. Labels identifying Capital Quilters Guild as the quiltmaker are added to the back of all quilts before delivery. In addition to individual members’ donations at monthly meetings, two or more workshops are held every year for Capital Quilters to get together as a community to sew comfort quilts Quilts are currently provided through the following programs, although at times other organizations are supported after approval by the Board.
The Quilts for Kids program provides quilts to the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) at Wake Med and Rex Hospitals. Size guidelines are as follows: Small cribs: 45” x 34” Large cribs: 52” x 40” Covers for isolettes: 38”x38” The exact measurement of the rounded mattress for the isolette is 25” x 19” x 2”, but 38” x 38” slips (pillowcases) are most helpful.
Quilts on Wheels provides lap-sized quilts to residents of local nursing homes. Finished quilts can be between 36” and 45” on each side. Square quilts work particularly well (same measurement on every side). Feel free to suggest nursing homes that you would like to see benefit from this program.
SAFECHILD ( http://www.safechildnc.org ) SAFEchild (Stop Abuse For Every Child) is a Wake County agency committed to eliminating child abuse and neglect by helping parents create nurturing home environments. Because SAFEchild’s family-centered programs are designed for families with children ranging from newborns to teenagers, all sizes of quilts, from crib-sized to twin-sized, can be accepted. |