COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMITTEE
Welcome to PebbleCreek Quilters - Your Home for Quilting Supplies
From Left to Right Standing: Lynne Hupp, Jackie Cameron, Maura Weddle, Sharon Casey, Jan Ochterbeck, Laurie Scott, Dona Thompson, Esther West.
Seated: Hiromi Bashore, Cheryl Casey, Maria Seibert, Nancy Muramoto. Missing: Ruth Hafner, Carla Peccianti, Linda Publicover.
Quilt Size Guidelines
Hospice of the Valley:
Sizes larger than 42” x 42” or larger but not twin size.
Southwest Family Advocacy:
Children: 45” x 50”
Teen: 45” x 60”
Clients are both boys and girls
Magdalene House: Twin Size: 70” x 90”
New Life Center: Twin Size: 70” x 90”
Clients are women, men,
children and teens
CHARITY QUILT PROCESS
To Donate a Quilt
- Attach the cloth PCQ label (located in Cabinet 104S) to a bottom corner of the back of the quilt. You may hand or machine sew it on.
- Fill out the Quilt Creation Information Form (located in Cabinet 104S door).
- Put the quilt on the shelf labeled "Finished Quilts" in Cabinet 104S.
Procedure for completing Quilts
Batting
Contact Hiromi Bashore at hiromibashore@protonmail.com and request batting be cut. Please include your name, phone number and top size. You will recieve your batting within a week.
Procedure for completing Quilts
Batting & Quilting
If your quilt needs batting and quilting:
1. Put the in-process quilt in the appropriate cabinet:
a. Needs Batting/Longarm: "Needs Batting" area, Cabinet 104X.
b. Batting will be cut and someone
will longarm it.
c. Once longarmed, we will contact
you to finish the quilt by
binding & sewing the label.
2. If you finishd sewing the binding & PCQ label, the quilt is complete. The Quilt Creation Form should be safety pinned to the quilt and placed on the "Finished Quilts" shelf in Cabinet 104S.
Longarming a Charity Quilt
- Choose a quilt bundle from the "Needs Quilting" are of Cabinets 104X or 104Z.
- Quilt it on the longarm.
- Trim the backing and batting from the edges while squaring up the quilt. If you do not want to keep the trimmed backing edges, put them into the fabric intake bin in Cabinet 104S.
- Put your name on the Longarm/Quilting line on the Quilt Creation Information form.
- Put the form, label, and the binding in the plastic bag and pin to the quilt. Put it in the "Needs Binding" bin in Cabinet 104Z.
Binding a Charity Quilt
- Choose a quilt bundle from the "Needs Binding" in Cabinet 104Z.
- Machine or hand bind the quilt, your choice.
- Attach the cloth PCQ label to a corner of the back of the quilt. The label may be attached by hand or machine (it is OK to sew through all layers of the quilt. Please mind the colors on the front.)
- Put your name on the "Binding" line on the Quilt Creation Information form.
- Pin the form in the plastic bag to the finished quilt. Put the quilt on a shelf labeled "Finished Quilts" in Cabinet 104S.