Cibolo Creek Quilters Guild
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Charity Sewing
The Cibolo Creek Quilters Guild members make and donate quilts and fiber arts to non-profit community support organizations in our area. Throughout the year, the Guild collects and distributes its creations to many local charities. Quarterly, the Guild is updated on the current status of donations including a graphical representation of submissions.
To donate a quilt or other product to the Guild for distribution or sale, please download the form below. Fill it out and bring it and your item to the Guild Meeting.
Please use one form for each item.
NICU Quilt Guidelines
Used for tummy time, when parents come to the NICU to hold their baby, and as a going home gift for the baby​.
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Preferred size is 36x36”. Quilts can be as long as 45”
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Three layers: top, back, and batting
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Acceptable fabrics for top and/or back: cotton, flannel, fleece, minky, or similar soft fabrics
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Lightweight batting between top and back regardless of fabric used for top and back
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Simple quilting to hold all three layers together
Need Batting?
If you are not using your own batting for a to-be-donated quilt
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Measure your quilt top
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Add 2” all around if quilting on a domestic machine
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Add 4” all around if quilting on a long arm
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Call Polly S.
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Ask her to cut batting for you
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Make arrangements to pick up
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Return batting scraps to Donna A. for “Frankenstein-ing” or dog bed filling
The Organizations shown below are recipients of items from our Guild. Click on the graphic associated with each entry for more information about the organization.
An organization of volunteers who create quilts for veterans and active members of the military. CCQG donates finished quilts, quilts tops and pillowcases.
Provides emergency shelter and supportive services to victims of domestic violence, their children and their pets in the Texas Hill Country. CCQG donates twin or queen bed quilts, lap quilts and baby quilts.
Hill Country Family Services - Providing compassionate case management, financial and food assistance and community resources for an individual and their family in their time of crisis. CCQG holds food and toiletries drives throughout the year where members donate items for families in the area.
An organization that builds beds for kids sleeping on floors. CCQG donates twin bed quilts to help support their efforts.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at University Hospital – Offers the highest level of care available in South Texas for infants providing the expertise needed to care for babies in our state-of-the-art facilities using the most advanced treatments. CCQG donates baby quilts that are sent home with them when they leave.
A non-profit faith-based senior living organization providing a full continuum of care in two communities. CCQG donates wheelchair quilts, prayer shawls, adult clothing protectors and activity mats for Alzheimer’s residents.
Since 2023, the CCQG has provided every pre-k student attending El Dorado Elementary School a handmade nap quilt. Expanding upon the school’s goal to provide extracurricular activities that help each student achieve his/her potential, in 2024 experienced CCQG members and friends began leading “Learn to Sew” workshops to share sewing knowledge and the joy of creating with EDES parents and staff.
As a team, we strive to improve health and enrich lives through partnership, compassion and acts of kindness. We believe these three pillars are essential ingredients to delivering inspired healthcare and, as such, move forward with an “Always be Kind” (ABK) mentality every day, with every patient.
The Hill Country Pregnancy Care Center has been serving families in the Texas Hill Country since 1987. All of our services are free, fully confidential and available to anyone, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age. Our staff and volunteer advocates are extensively trained. All medical services are provided by licensed nurses under the direction of a medical doctor.