SCVQA Community Quilts
SCVQA members enjoy giving back to the community and fulfilling part of the association's mission to support philanthropic endeavors. Our members make donation quilts and pass them to our Community Quilts group where they are organized, completed if necessary, and delivered to many charitable organizations around the Bay Area. We also gather for Community Quilts Workdays where we can work together and share the tasks involved in organizing and completing quilts for donation.
Donating Finished Quilts For those wanting to donate quilts, the Community Quilts team recommends the following sizes. These are approximate sizes, with the width listed first.
Donating Quilt Tops (aka Flimsies) For those wanting to donate quilt tops, we accept well made tops that match with the sizes shown above for finished quilts. Finishing Quilt Sandwiches We take the lovely donated tops and layer them into Quilt Sandwiches with batting, backing and binding. For those wanting to help us turn these sandwiches into finished quilts, we welcome your help to quilt them. It's a great way to improve your quilting skills or practice a specific quilting motif. Bindings can be attached by hand or machine or returned to us to finish. |
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Community Quilts in person meetings Contact Robin Scheiderer for questions and details if you would like to join us. Join in on the fun of creating quilts for our community. We meet at Christ the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1550 Meridian Ave. San Jose, CA two times a month (use the parking lot around the corner and down the road on Alta Glen Dr.) From that parking lot, follow the walkway through the breezeway into the courtyard and you will find us in the great hall on your right.
Bring your sewing machine and all your sewing things to work on sewing tops or quilting sandwiches. We have irons and ironing boards if needed. Bring your measuring tape to help sort finished quilts and layer the tops we have received. We are a friendly group and look forward to meeting more SCVQA members. | Upcoming Community Quilts Workdays
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The Community Quilts group have developed the following easy patterns that look great using a bunch of scraps. Or if you prefer, they look great in coordinated fabrics too. Here’s the best part - they contain NO matching seams! We have packaged each pattern and enough squares and sashing into kits that you can pickup during in-person events to take home and complete. You can also download the patterns and use your own fabric or scraps. These patterns and our other easy patterns are all available on the Patterns page.
Stacked Squares Med Pattern
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