Donations

I would like to give Comfort Quilts a donation.

Please make contact with a committee member to make a donation, click here for committee contacts. Or you can come along to a meeting, have a coffee, and see what we are up to!  Some offices have collected "Christmas card" money, instead of giving each other cards, just putting a few pennies into a pot for charitable purposes - it mounts up!

What else could I donate?

We use metres and metres of fabric, usually cotton or poly cotton.  We don't use fabrics with angels, fairies, and are careful where we send dragonflies and ladybirds.  We can use any size scraps from about 4 inch square upwards, the bigger the better.  Unwanted jelly rolls are a godsend, as we can run these up into very quick patterns.

If you want to donate to a local quilter, get in touch with us, and we'll put you in contact, so that you can meet, rather than post - we prefer not to "waste" money on postage if we can avoid it. 

We use good quality wadding, 2 oz weight, polyester, cotton, or blended.  We can also use  leftovers, any size bigger than 12 inch squares or strips.    (Sorry Pattern section is taking much longer than we hoped - we need to overcome copyright issues in case our pattern is actually someone elses!).

Often forgotten, we use lots of thread!  It should be incidental, but in today's market, thread is becoming more expensive.  We generally use a smooth, long staple 100% cotton, not polyester of any kind, simply because polyester thread will cut cotton fabric fairly quickly.

We always need paper and cartridges for leaflets, newsletters and posters, followed by envelopes and postage to send these out.

Every quilt is washed using Fairy, dried and packed in it's own bag, along with a leaflet, so donations of vouchers towards the cost of washing powder from supermarkets would be very gratefully received.

Fundraising ideas, as well as some of your time!  2010 /2011 we are running a raffle for a quilt (see the gallery for more details) and a table top sale in November 2010.  Any other ideas for helping raise funds to keep us going, or avenues we should be exploring, are welcome.  We are not experts, so if you have knowledge of where to go for help, please steer us in the right direction!