Sewing is Cool Again (NYT gift link)

WayOutWestMom
Sat, 13 Sep 2025 18:12:24 +0000

Now that all the kids and grandkids have quilts I am confronted by “how many quilts does the world need?” and my production has really slowed down. I still love the vintage machines but I don’t have the space to work with them the way I

If you like to quilt but family members no longer need or want quilts…have you thought of donating them?

The quilter’s guild in Albuquerque and quilter’s guild here in Virginia, both have charities that want quilts and solicit quilts from local quilting organizations.

You could contact your local guild and ask them if they collect quilts for charity. Or you can contact different organizations yourself to ask if they accept donations.

Places that want quilts include police departments (whose victim response officer hand them out as lovies to child trauma victims), hospitals /children’s hospitals (who give them to the parents of premies and newborns or to older children who have longer term hospital stays), day care centers in low income areas want quillows to use for nap times with their students, homeless shelters, senior citizen centers (in ABQ, we used to make special wheelchair lap quilts for the local veterans home), foster care social services or youth detention centers (those kids get shuffled from place to place and have nothing special to call their own), immigrant resettlement organizations, etc.

If you enjoy quilting, don’t stop because there are plenty of people who would love to have a special handmade quilt–even if it’s one your “ugly duckling” quilts.