Comfort Quilts

Our 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 take these kits home and return to a guild meeting's show-and-tell session with quilts for comfort.  Members may 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.

Recipients of our Comfort Quilts include:
- Hole In The Wall Gang Camp
- Friends of Appalachia
- Angel Tree
- Ukraine refugees

Making a Comfort Quilt? Please read…

  • Completed comfort quilts will only be accepted at the September, November, January, March, and May meetings.
    We cannot take quilts at every meeting because we do not have a way to store them. Instead we are asking members to hold onto them until the special collection meetings.

  • Comfort quilt kits will be available for pickup in the months that are NOT quilt collection meetings: October, December, February, April.

  • Please make sure that you sign out the kit so that we can keep track of where they all are. And return the kit in the numbered bag that it cam in.

  • Make sure to add a CPQG label to all Comfort Quilts. Kits should have a label included. You can find a link to print a label below.

  • 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.

Comfort Quilt Patterns

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

  • Patterns - click on the quilt names below to obtain a free pattern sized for comfort quilts.

Bricks and Blocks - scrappy Split 9-Patch
Disappearing 4-Patch Super Zig-Zag
Marie’s Squares Window Pane
Rail Fence Pizzazz Rectangle Quilt
Rail Fence 10” Block Four patch 10” Block
Ants in my pants B & W Community Quilt Block

Oh! Oh! Oh! Community Quilt Block

Pillowcases

Pillowcases are a natural companion for the comfort quilts that we make. Pillowcase kits are sometimes 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.