Comfort Quilts at Connecticut Piecemakers
The Connecticut Piecemakers Quilt Guild's comfort quilting effort is headed by dedicated volunteers who make use of donated fabric and batting to create kits for quilts of various sizes. The committee chairs select or design the patterns and the kits are coordinated with fabrics for the tops, backing and batting for quilts of various sizes, primarily lap quilts. Members are able to take these kits home and return to a guild meeting's show-and-tell session with quilts for comfort. Members also make comfort quilts of their own design and selected size. Throughout the year, quilts are donated to comfort people in the communities in our area of Western Connecticut and occasionally beyond. Larger quilts are also donated to organizations to raffle for fundraisers.
So far during the 2022-2023 guild year Comfort Quilts has donated:
99 quilts + 6 pillowcases to the Hole In The Wall Gang Camp
12 to Anne’s Place
9 to Angel Tree (support children in DCF care)
33 to Ukraine
Comfort Quilt Info for Members:
Completed comfort quilts will only be accepted at the November, March, and June meetings.
We cannot take quilts at every meeting because we do not have a way to store them. Instead we are asking members to hang onto them until the special collection meetings.Comfort quilt kits will be available for pickup in the months that are NOT quilt collection meetings (i.e. Sep, Oct, Dec, Jan, Feb, Apr, May).
Please make sure that you sign out the kit so that we can keep track of where they all are.
Pillowcases (made in the burrito style with no exposed seams) will be accepted at any meeting.
If you have not been involved in Comfort Quilts before, please be thinking of ways that you can support our mission.
The committee is not accepting fabric donations at this time.
Pillowcases
Pillowcases are a natural companion for the comfort quilts that we make. Pillowcase kits are often handed out at meetings with accompanying instructions. If you want to make your own:
Click HERE for instructions for the easy “burrito” pillowcase construction method.
If you have problems with these instructions or want more help, the Comfort Quilt Chair suggests this YouTube video: click HERE for a YouTube video from Hello Sewing illustrating burrito style pillowcase construction with French seams.
You may also want to do a search on YouTube for other videos on this type of pillowcase construction.
The following links contain information on sizes and construction recommendations for comfort quilts:
Click HERE for the sizes and construction recommendations document
Click HERE for instructions on making your own comfort quilt labels
Click HERE for comfort quilt label images for printing