Service Opportunities

The guild helps the community in many ways; with placemats that go to Meals on Wheels, quilts that go to our veterans, area homeless shelters, the hospital for kids, pillow cases for the hospital, and more. The service to the community is a big part of the guild work and mission.

When donating an item, please fill out the attached Service Form. It helps to know where in the creation process the item is at.

Placemats

• 12" x 18"
• No embellishments or buttons. Just make them flat so the plates and cups don't wobble.
• Need to be washable and a little quilting will help
• The binding can be actual binding or turn the placemat inside out and stitch what looks like a binding.
• Use a thin batting.
• Any design for the placemats and a great way to use up your scraps or your orphan blocks.

Soldier quilts

• Should be 60 x 80. Nothing larger than 72 x 90.
• Preferred colors are: Red, White, and Blue.

Service quilts

Service quilts are approximately 60 x 80. These are basically the ones that we have packages of 6" squares cut and waiting for you to take a package home to sew. These quilts go various places such as the Freedom House, Red Cross, etc. Please see below for other square sizes and how many are needed to make a service quilt.

• 6" squares (165) 11 x 15 = 60.5" x 82.5"
• 5.5" squares (192) 12 x 16 = 60" x 80"
• 5" squares (252) 14 x 18 = 63" x 81"
• 4.5" squares (391) 15 x 20 = 60" x 80"
• 4" squares (391) 17 x 23 = 59.5" x 80.5"
• 3.5" squares (540) 20 x 27 = 60.5" x 81.5"

Comfort quilts

Quilts go to St. Vincent Hospital Pediatrics (45 x 60), Bellin Health Child Life (36 x 36 up to 60 x 80) and Brown County Social Services.

Hospice quilts

The dimensions are 36 x 36 inches, or 36 x 40 inches. These quilts work well for people in wheel chairs.

These are ongoing projects. The need is great and every quilt that we can make and donate to these worthwhile places is well worth the time spent.

Although all donations of fabric is good, we can only accept cotton fabric that is clean and is free of all odors.

We have various days throughout the year for a working bee making quilts. Watch the newsletter for sewing days. Any pattern is acceptable.

Other patterns - Use these patterns for items we have donated in the past and will continue to do when we receive them at meetings.

• Pillow cases - Collected throughout the year and sometimes quilt camp does this as the charity. The pillow cases are given to various organizations in Green Bay - mostly to St. Vincent Hospital Pediatrics and Bellin Health Child Life. Bring them to any guild meeting so they can be delivered.
  
  
• Scented Hearts - Make hearts from cotton or flannel. Bring to meetings. The hearts will be given to Bellin NICU. The NICU team is currently requesting your help in creating cloth hearts that help facilitate parent-child bonding during hospitalization. Scent cloths are utilized across the country in many NICU and nursery environments to provide age-appropriate and positive sensory experiences that drive brain development for NICU babies. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with you and appreciate your consideration in helping us with these scent cloths. Parents wear these hearts next to their skin, absorbing their respective scents. The hearts are then placed in NICU isolettes where the infants can continue to bond with the parents even when the parents are unable to be present.
  
  
• NICU Pillow Case Sheets and Lift Pads Pattern
  
  
• Cancer Hats Pattern
  
  
• Knitted Knockers