Community quilts

This year, beginning July 2025 the Bloomington Quilters Guild has donated 74 quilts! Thank you to our members for your generous donations!

July 2024 though June 2025, the guild has distributed 513 quilts !! You can see where they all went in the charts below!

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.

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.

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

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