Community quilts

Quilt donated to the Middle Way House Women’s shelter.

July 2025 though June 2026, the guild has distributed 500 quilts !! You can see where they all went in the charts below! Thank you to our members for your generous donations!


About Community Quilts
Quilts, like plants and recipes, are meant to be generously shared. Guild members donate their time and their materials to make quilts that are given to charitable agencies in the Bloomington area and then distributed to people in need or distress. What a great way to reach out to the community!

If you cannot donate a quilt, please consider donating your time to quilt a donated top or to contribute fabric for backing.
Quilt donations may be dropped off at our in-person meetings.

Quilt donations are managed by B-Town Quilters bee. Email the bee if you have questions about quilt drop-off at community@bloomingtonquiltersguild.org. We prefer that community quilts be quilted and bound, and ready to donate. If you need quilting, please include donation of a backing with your quilt top.

See a few photos of recent donations.

The guild coordinates donations and distributes them to a variety of locations and a few locations have requested certain sizes of quilts. Specific organization sizes are listed below. See more for general size guidelines.

Show us your quilt!
Once your quilt is finished, we encourage you to show it off to the members during our meetings. We all enjoy seeing them.


The Middle Way Bee meets on the third Monday of the month and, weather permitting, displays the quilts they have gathered on Sandy Bonsib’s fence where they meet from 1-3.

BQG Community Quilt Donations

(July 2026 through June 2027 )

Organization Number Donated Quilt Type/Size
WIC Children’s Quilts
Habitat for Humanity Bed sized quilts
Brickyard Health Small lap quilt
The Villages Children's quilts
Middle Way House For children, any size
New Hope for Families 8 Prefer twin, full, queen
CASA Children’s Quilts
Bell Trace lap quilts
Cedarhurst lap quilts
Hospice lap quilts
Susie's Place small children's quilts
Tandem Birth Center small baby quilts
Courage to Change lap quilts
Stonecroft lap quilts
Total

Recipients
The guild and its bees have donated to a variety of charitable organizations, including Bloomington Police Department, Habitat for Humanity, Hospice House, Middle Way House, New Hope Family Shelter, Susie’s Place, Indiana Department of Child Services and the Richland Nursing Home Ellettsville. See the tables below.

Need batting?
For those who have never made a community quilt, here are a few points to know. The guild is fortunate to be the recipient of donations and grants that we assign to a Community Quilt Fund. This money is available to members to purchase batting for their donations. All you need to do is present a receipt to the treasurer for batting used in your community quilt project. You may wish to contact Jane Pitt as she purchases batting in bulk for use in community quilts. For information, email: community@bloomingtonquiltersguild.org.

BQG Community Quilt Donations

(July 2025 through June 2026 )

Organization Number Donated Quilt Type/Size
WIC 17 Children’s Quilts
Habitat for Humanity 12 Bed sized quilts
Brickyard Health 13 Small lap quilt
The Villages 31 Children's quilts
Middle Way House 218 For children, any size
New Hope for Families 125 Prefer twin, full, queen
CASA 23 Children’s Quilts
Bell Trace 5 lap quilts
Cedarhurst 2 lap quilts
Hospice 11 lap quilts
Susie's Place 16 small children's quilts
Tandem Birth Center 12 small baby quilts
Courage to Change 9 lap quilts
Stonecroft 06 lap quilts
Total 500

Community quilts are also known as charity quilts or donation quilts.

Photo credits: contributed by members including Sandy Bonsib and Janice Arveson.