Community Quilts

Making Community Quilts give our members an outlet for their creative energies while providing welcomed support to local non-profit agencies. The Guild provides free kits for charity quilts with patterns, fabric, and batting. Completed quilts are distributed to a variety of local community agencies. Several workdays are scheduled during the year, with a big Community Quilts sewing workday in January. A Guild fabric stash is maintained from donations and purchased materials. It is available to all Guild members for charity projects.

The members of the Asheville Quilt Guild make and donate hundreds of quilts and related items each year. We currently support Project Linus, Homeward Bound, Habitat for Humanity, VA Hospital and NC VA State Home, Copestone, NICU and LifeShare at Mission Hospital, Givens nursing home, women’s prison quilting classes and youth quilting classes.

How you can help

• pick up a kit
• create a quilt from your stash using your own pattern
• your bee could adopt a project or agency
• donate fabric
• come to a CQ workday

Quilt Size Specifications

Approximate sizes for each organization:

• Linus quilts (about 400+/year): 42" x 50"; width not less than 40"
• Homeward Bound is adults so 50" x 60"
• Habitat (60/year) is 12" square
• VA and nursing home quilts are for sitting in wheelchairs so about 36" x 42"
• Copestone is a mental health facility for youth and adults so they accept all sizes.
• LifeShare get 42" x 50" also.  These quilts cover the donor's as they are wheeled to the operating room and then given to the families.

AQG Fabric Donation Guidelines

• 100% cotton fabric only
• 100% cotton, 80/20% or polyester batting
• Flat folds - no wads
• Delivered in containers you do not want returned
• No mold or smoke smell
• Minimum size is 9" x 42" or 18" x 22"
• Contact the Community Quilts Chairman (Community.Quilts@AshevilleQuiltGuild.org) to make arrangements.