Love & Comfort Projects - North Shore Quilters Guild

Goal: NSQG is committed to making quilts to provide love and comfort for infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units of area hospitals. Annually, NSQG distributes more than 150 quilts to neonatal intensive care units at local hospitals. We also make quilts for organizations that are working with people who are seeking a stable housing environment.

Recipient Hospitals:
NICU Ascension Hospitals, Milwaukee
Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital, St Joseph, and Ozaukee Campus

Recipient organizations include:
Open Door Cafe, Milwaukee
Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital, St Joseph, and Ozaukee Campus

NICU Quilt Guidelines

Shelter Quilt Guidelines

NSQG Love and Comfort Quilts
NEW INFORMATION
WHO: This is our NSQG charity quilt project
WHAT: Making quilts for those in need as they would appreciate a beautiful handmade/machine made quilt in their time of need (see below for instructions)
WHEN: Bring your “love and comfort” quilts to drop off at each of our monthly meetings and they will be taken to one of the receiving organizations to distribute.
WHY: To make a positive difference to those in need in our community using your remarkable quilting skills.
HOW: Now you can make two types of Love and Comfort quilts that will go to one of three places! Small ones are for the NICU and larger ones are for older children and adults.
Please read this before you make a charity quilt. Here are instructions:

NICU Quilts: We have researched needs at the NICU Ascension Hospitals – Columbia St Mary, St Joseph, and Ozaukee Campus. They continue to need 36″ X 36″ quilts — but they only want baby/child prints (all cotton, no flannel). From now
on, please only make the NICU quilts using child/baby prints.
The “Open Door Cafe” (at the Cathedral of St John downtown) would love our quilts –
the sizes and fabrics can vary (48” x 54”, 55 x 65, but any size will do). You could even use fleece for the batting and backing (a lot less expensive).
Lap quilts for adults – Columbia/St Mary’s Hospital and St Joseph Hospital patients: you can make 40 X 60 or lap size charity quilts to go especially to older patients. Please use all cotton fabric,

PLEASE NOTE : if you have child cotton prints, can make quilts 36”x36”.
For all other fabrics (solids, other prints, flannels) please make larger quilts for adults.
Thank you for making the Love and Comfort quilts! They make a positive difference to the sick and needy in our community.

Adult sizes Shelter Quilt ideas

Directions and ideas

Adalee’s Garden
Adult Quilt
Awareness
Block Play
Colorful Steps
Hopscotch
Jamboree
Minicakes
On The Fly
Simple Patchwork: (cut 6.5″ squares, 6 rows, 6 blocks each)
Simple Sashings
Sew Fast
Zigzag

Love and Comfort NICU Quilt Guidelines
Size: 36” x 36” up to 40” x 44”
Fabric: Soft 100% cotton – no metallic threads
Juvenile prints
Soft pastels
Brights
Batting: Bonded polyester batting (low to medium loft)
Binding: Pillow case method or standard binding (machine or hand)
Quilting: Machine – Straight line and/or decorative stitches (reinforce pillowcase
method 1-2” from the edge)
Hand Tie – square knots every four inches using embroidery floss or perle
cotton – NO YARNS!
Final Check: Check for stray pins, weak seams etc.

Quilt patterns
Binky
Diapers
High Chair

See below for charts for cutting blocks and sashes, and for possible block layouts

In Memory of Jean Doherty, the founding leader of Love and Comfort Quilts for NSQG

Photos from previous Love n Comfort workshops

Charts for cutting blocks and sashes.	Medallion quilts
Four Block Quilts (2×2)	Nine Block Quilts (3×3)
Sixteen Block Quilts (4×4)	Quilts from Simple Squares

Drawings of possible quilts