Community Quilts Meetings at Nativity Lutheran Church
Mt Bachelor Quilt Guild’s main service project is the Community Quilts program which helps establish our non-profit status. We serve the eight agencies listed below plus an occasional request for a “raffle” quilt. We make and donate about 400 quilts every year. Each member is asked to make at least one community quilt per year. It might be easier to remember to submit a quilt in your birthday month! Of course, we love it when you make many more. We also accept donations of cotton quilting fabric (at least a fat quarter). Think of us when cleaning out your stash!!
We appreciate all the beautiful and fun quilts we receive. We accept quilt tops that include backing made for the quilt (at least 3” larger on each side) ready to go to a long-arm quilter. However, we do not accept any holiday quilts (Christmas, Easter, Halloween, etc.). Also, we do not accept quilts with any religious images or verses.
We meet every Wednesday to work on our quilts, but consider the Wednesday after the guild meeting as our “Community Quilts Day” when we do special projects. We meet at Nativity Lutheran Church, 60850 Brosterhous Rd from 11:00 until 2:30. Please join us for a fun day. Bring your machine, basic sewing supplies and lunch -- learn some new techniques and meet new people. Also, anyone can drop by to pick up supplies or get help with pinning a quilt for quilting.
We have quilt kits and quilts to finish available on Wednesdays and during the guild meetings, if you do not want to make your own. Quilts turned in at the guild meeting are shown to the guild that evening. Each quilt needs a paper label on the front and a MBQG-label sewn on the back. We have labels available at the meetings and on Wednesdays. You can also download the paper label below.
Agencies are listed below along with some information and the general sizes of quilts needed. Please make any size quilt you are comfortable sewing. Quilts will always be donated to one of our agencies.
- Bend High School Teen Parent Program: Baby quilts 40”x44” or slightly larger. They need about 15 quilts each year which we donate at Christmas.
- Cascade Youth Services: Serves troubled older teens--female and male. Some have been incarcerated and are currently acquiring a GED and may have a part-time job. They need quilts approximately 60”x72”. Colors and themes should be appropriate for older teens.
- Partners in Care: Serves hospice patients and prefers larger quilts approximately 60”x72” or lap quilts approximately 54”x60”. Also, quilts that are 36”x36” up to 40”x40” for use with wheelchairs.
- Kid’s Center: Serves hundreds of children from toddlers to teens; they need quilts of any size in child/teen appropriate fabrics. Quilts up to 50”x50” are the most useful.
- Ronald McDonald House: Serves children of all ages through teens. Mostly, they serve younger children and need baby/toddler quilts with a few larger quilts for teens. Quilts should be child/teen appropriate.
- Saving Grace: Serves abused women. They use our quilts on the beds and prefer larger quilts about 60” x 72”. (Most children served by this agency currently receive quilts through Kids’ Center.)
- J Bar J Ranch: Serves boys 14-19. Quilts are used on their beds. Larger quilts, about 60”x72”, with male teenager themes are appropriate.
- Dawn’s House: Serves women recovering from addictions. They prefer quilts about 60”x72” to use on their beds.
All those who receive a quilt are allowed to take it with them after the services provided. Many families of those in Hospice are allowed to keep the quilts.
The church asks us to contribute to their food bank by donating at the guild meetings and the sewing days. The church prefers monetary donations as they can buy $5.00 worth of food for each dollar donated. If you enjoy bringing canned food, please continue to do so—it all gets used.
Directions to the church, 60850 Brosterhous Road
The church is at the corner of Brosterhous and Knott Roads.
- Go south on 27th St which turns into Knott Rd and go southwest until you reach Brosterhous Rd. Turn right on Brosterhous and immediately into the church driveway.
- Take Reed Market Rd to 15th, turn south on 15th and follow to Knott Rd, then turn right one long block to Brosterhous. Turn right on Brosterhous and immediately into the church driveway.
- Take 3rd Street south to Murphy Rd, turn left on Murphy continuing until it dead ends. Turn right on Brosterhous and follow until you reach the church driveway just before Knott Rd.
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The Community Quilts Committee will be posting quilt patterns here periodically throughout the year so that directions are easily available to all. You may pick up a quilt kit from the committee that goes with each pattern.
- Mandarin Dynasty Instructions
- Jelly Roll Race Quilt Instructions
- Modern Scrap Quilt Instructions
- View photo of Modern Scrap Quilt Layout
- Flower Bed Quilt
June 2018
The quilt logo was completed in 1997. Honeybee, a traditional quilt block, was chosen for the guilds’ theme block or logo. A contest was held to design the logo and the winning design was from Barbara Baker. The guild was involved with the community from the beginning and in 2001 the guild decided to make Community Quilts an ongoing project year around. It is not known when or how many of these labels were used for Community Quilts.
