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, VA Hospital and NC VA State Home, Givens Highland Farm Skilled Nursing Facility, Mission Hospital NICU, Pardee Hospital Life Share and Oncology, Irene Wortham Center, BEAR Closet, youth quilting classes and Health Opportunities Pilot (HOP).

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 Community Quilts workday

Quilt Size Specifications

Approximate sizes for each organization:

• In general, Community Quilts should be 36" or larger.
• Linus quilts (about 400+/year): 42" x 50"; width not less than 40"
• Homeward Bound is adults so 50" x 60" and larger
• VA and nursing home quilts are for sitting in wheelchairs so about 36" x 45"
• Baby quilts for Bear Closet: at least 36" square
• Health Opportunity Pilot (HOP):  all sizes
• LifeShare: blue and green quilts around 42" x 50".  These quilts cover the donors as they are wheeled to the operating room and then given to the families.

AQG Fabric Donation Guidelines

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