Service Quilts

Coordinator - Jovita Bailey

1. Raffle Quilt - a group quilt raffled for the benefit of various charities
2. Baby Quilts - baby quilts given to pregnant teens in the GRADS program (PDF).
3. Challenge Quilts - lap quilts for use at the Arthur G. James Cancer Center

Challenge Quilts

Members each make a quilt of their own design to enter into the Challenge Quilt contest typically held during the November meeting.  The finished quilts are then given to the benefiting organization chosen for that year.  Focus fabrics are provided for you and your challenge is to use this fabric, plus your own, to create a quilt suitable for use by the final recipient.

2005 Challenge Quilt Show

There were six quilts entered in this year's Challenge Quilt Show.  Viewer's Choice was given to Claire Paul for her beautiful heart quilt.  Barb Pletcher won the Best Reflection of Theme award.  Click here to see all the quilts entered in the show.

2004 Challenge Quilt Show

Our 2004 Challenge Quilt Show was a huge success again. There were 12 quilts entered in the Contest. Claire Paul won the categories of Most Creative and Viewer's Choice while Kathy Myers won Best Workmanship and Best Reflection of Theme. Janet White got the Best use of Challenge Fabric. Joyce Kerze says "Thanks again to all of you for making and donating your beautiful quilts to the James Stitching Sisters. I know they will warm JamesCare chemotherapy patients in both mind and spirit."  Here is the page showing a few of the quilts entered in this year's show.

Here are the links for past Challenge Quilt Shows:

• 2005 Challenge Quilt Show
• 2004 Challenge Quilt Show
• 2003 Challenge Quilt Show
• 2002 Challenge Quilt Show
• 2001 Challenge Quilt Show

Baby Quilts

Our guild makes baby quilts to give to pregnant teens in the GRADS program (PDF) of the Columbus Public School System.  Typically we have Service Days where several members gather to coordinate fabrics, cut strips and piece together baby-sized Yellow Brick Road quilt tops.  The tops are then packaged with backing, batting and binding for members to take home and either machine or hand quilt.  These provide an excellent opportunity to practice your machine quilting skills.  The quilts are given as incentive to take and complete the GRADS program - a program statically proven to reduce school drop-out rates of the mothers, reduce the rate of subsequent pregnancies, and improve prenatal care.

Raffle Quilts

2005 Raffle Quilt

Congratulations to Joann Dunning! Hers was the winning ticket pulled for the Common Threads 2005 Raffle Quilt at our July picnic. The photo to the right shows Joann accepting the quilt from Pam Mabe, President. Thank you to Julie Callahan for coordinating the appliqué border work, Vikkie Almos and Kathy Myers for coordinating the construction, Janet Amlin for the machine quilting, Cathy Corcella, Cathy Daum, and all the staff at Quilt Beginnings for selling our tickets, and to all guild members who lent a hand in getting the quilt constructed. The guild netted $717 in profit from the sale of raffle tickets.

2003 NQA Raffle Quilt

For the year 2003, we put together a Bicentennial quilt to raffle off during the NQA quilt show held in Columbus.  The winner of the quilt was Carla Sharon of Mount Gilead.  Carol wrote "Dear Common Threads Quilt Guild, I just want to express my Thank You to all of you who worked so hard on the Ohio Bicentennial quilt. I am now the VERY proud owner of this lovely quilt, having won it in the raffle at the NQA show a couple weeks ago! Everyone who has seen it has "ooh"-ed and "aw"-ed, and my mother, herself an accomplished quilter of over 20 years, is very jealous of me! I love the fact that you also sent not only the patterns, but histories behind the representation of them also - it makes it so much more special.

I can't wait to totally rearrange my living room to display it - this room is painted a warm sunflower, with maroon and dark green accents! It is as if you made this specially for me :)

Proceeds from the quilt raffle benefit our service charities.

2002 Habitat for Humanity Quilt

In the summer of 2002, Common Threads created a raffle quilt to benefit Habitat for Humanity.  It was a queen-sized quilt whose blocks were several different paper-pieced house blocks.  There were ninety-nine house blocks altogether.  

The fabrics used were homespuns or plaids...

• beige-on-beige homespun for background and sky
• green homespun for grass
• gold, yellow or warm homespun for windows
• coordinating homespuns for house, roof and chimney
  

the quilt in concept

the finished quilt

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