Community Service

The Greater Hartford Quilt Guild, its chapters and members, are committed to supporting our communities and charitable organizations. These are just a few of our recent contributions.

Guadalupe River Quilt Drive

GHQG members can contribute to this project by making Poppy Blocks (see directions below). More information will be coming soon. The preliminary plan is to send our blocks to Texas where they will put the blocks together for quilts to benefit the effort to support victims of the July 4, 2025 Guadalupe River flood.

Recent Contributions

Quilts Donated to Journey Home

The talented and generous quilters of GHQG made 31 quilts that were donated to Journey Home, a community organization serving the greater Hartford area. Their mission is to ensure a home for all. Marion Bissette, Brenda Auerbach and Colleen Sheridan made the delivery on July 28th. Thank you to all GHQG members who made these beautiful quilts that will be used to give comfort to someone's new home.

Members of GHQG loaned their quilts to the New England Ballet Theater's October 2024 production of The Long Black Veil. This was a period piece that needed a scenery with American Folk Art. The quilts were a beautiful contribution to the staging of this unique ballet production.

GHQG members regularly make Mastectomy pillows for Hartford Hospital and other area medical facilities to distribute to patients; this is a sample from a recent contribution.

GHQG members participated in a challenge during the 2020-2021 quarantine to make a child's quilt inspired by a book. More than 50 quilts and books from the first round of the challenge have been donated to local women's shelters; and the challenge is ongoing.

Ellington Quilters donate NICU quilts and hearts and totes for breast cancer to local hospitals. A recent workshop in Pineapple Blocks also resulted in dozens of scrappy blocks which were assembled into a quilt donated to the Ellington Congregational Church.

Quilters West donates wheelchair bags to the West Hartford Health and Rehab Center, and pillowcases and lap quilts for the Connecticut Foster Care system. They also recently went all out to produce this
stack of mastectomy pillows.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Festival of Trees and Traditions has included beautiful trees donated by GHQG every year since 2017. They are decorated with hundreds of handcrafted ornaments made by our members. It is auctioned off to benefit the museum. This is our 2024 tree.

This is our 2025 tree

Enfield Quilters have already donated over 1000 pillowcases to the Shriner’s Hospital in Springfield, MA, participating in the Million Pillowcase Challenge. The pillowcases become extra-special gifts when wrapped around a small stuffed animal! We also provide donation quilts every year to Lost Acres for distribution to victims of natural disasters, and use one meeting each year to complete some of these projects as a group.

Heritage Quilters of Wallingford donates lap quilts every year to the Masonicare Health Care Center, pillowcases to Ryan’s Case for Smiles, and premie and layette quilts to UConn.

West Hartford Quilters donate twin size quilts to the St Agnes Home.

Stafford Mill Town Quilters donate lap quilts and walker bags to Johnson Memorial Hospital and Evergreen Health Care Center, as well as pet mats and other projects. Recently they had a "Donation preparation" meeting at which they prepared kits for these ongoing projects, made sanitary products for the Days For Girls organization, and hemmed a quilt ready to be donated.

Newington Schoolhouse Quilters donate quilts to Boys and Girls Village in Milford and the Newington Department of Human Resources, breast cancer pillows and “pretty pockets” to Middlesex Breast Cancer Center, and fidget quilts for Alzheimer’s patients.

The Friendship Quilters of Winsdor regularly supply tote bags to the Harry Gray Cancer Center, and provide quilts to the Windsor Department of Social Services and to the Rocky Hill Veteran's Hospital. Recently they also participated in the Northwest Park Fair in Windsor.

Apple Valley Quilt Guild has made mastectomy pillows for hospitals, pillow cases for Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, lap quilts and walker bags for The Summit in Southington.