Giving Quilt Drop Off

Drop Off Sites

Please contact these individuals if you are unable to attend an in-person meeting and have a quilt you wish to donate. Remember we will take all patterns, all sizes (but we especially love those improv)! Thank you to these individuals who offered to accept Giving Quilts! (Log in before clicking a link to access the member's profile.)

•  Ann Daniels – downtown Seattle (Denny Triangle)
•  Laura Hubele – downtown Seattle (PPM)
•  Ann Marchand – Ballard
•  Karen McCutchen – Kitsap
•  Bridget Slocum – Shoreline
•  Katrina Hendrix – Normandy Park
•  Melissa Glenn - Renton

Please contact these people directly, via text is probably best as unfamiliar phone calls are often ignored.  If there is not a drop off site near you, please consider volunteering to be a site. 

Donated Quilt Information

When dropping off a quilt for donation, please complete the following form. If you wish to remain anonymous, simply write that instead of your name. Download a PDF containing multiple forms to print at home.

Answers to Your Questions:

  A randomn assortment of questions and answers.   If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me.  

1. What size do the new donation sites want?  Once again, each of these sites would prefer receiving quilts that are approximately twin size. After searching the web (thank you July GQ Sew-in-ers) twin mattresses are typically 56" x 80", so adding 4" to each side for long arm quilting, the top should be no smaller than 64" x 88").  However, each site  also welcomes quilts of any size.  In addition to residents placing the quilts on their beds, they can use them as wall decorations or for comfort as they sit in chairs in their room or in the common areas. Most residents will be allowed to take the quilts with them as they leave the facility and hopefully, begin their new life of  stability and safety.

2. Other helpful measurements:dimensions:  From RK app, for enough backing fabric for the above quilt,  if you are using 42" fabric, you will need 5.5 yards. For 2.5" double binding, you will need 3/4yard, 8 strips.

2. Where can I drop off my finished quilt?  At the top of this website is a listing of folks who have volunteered to be donation sites.  You are also always welcomed to bring your quilt to the meeting or contact me directly.

3. Do you have batting and/or backing fabric available?  YES! See the photo below.  Contact me (Linda Teri, link above) to arrange receiving what you need.  

July 2025

             Two lovely quilts were turned in at the July meeting.  Their photos appear below.

We have identified four new charities to receive our quilts now that Kenmore Older Women's Shelter and YWCA Pathways for Women have received a quilt for each resident. These are the Elizabeth Gregory Home (a seven-bedroom home for single women who are experiencing homelessness, where they can live in a safe and supportive environment. Supportive services are offered for up to two years to prepare participants to live independently and reduce the risk of returning to homelessness ), Sophia Way (two sheltlters that offer a physical safe haven and supportive services to women for up to 21 women for six months) and the Chief Seattle Club (offers both permanent and transitional supportive housing for Native Americans experiencing homelessness: elderly, women & children.   In addition, Karen McCutchen has volunteered to coordinate a fourth sitea fourth site, Scarlet Road (an organization that helps women and men escape from sexual exploitation and begin new lives). Karen's contact information appears above.  

Ruth Archer donated this spring-time stip quilt. Thanks Ruth!

This quilt traveled across members.  It was started by Aline Caulley, finished by Marion Lisko, and brought to the meeting by yet another member.  Thank you all.

June 2025

Another fun collection of quilts were turned in at the June guild meeting.  

This first one was a true team effort:

the blocks were found at retreat; they were sewn together by Debbie Jeske and quilted by Jana Royal.

Debbie Jeske also did this one, following the Stash Jazz pattern.  I love her color choices!

Debbie was a busy woman this month.  She also sewed and quilted these "found" blocks.

And last, but by  no means least, Julia Wachs donated these four quilts.

As always, THANK YOU ALL!

May 2025

May has set a resounding record of quilts donated.  

First, at our Guild meeting, it seemed that May was Anonymous quilt month. Beautiful quilts - of every conceivable size and pattern - were donated. Then, later in the month, I met up with Karen McCutchen, who came into Edmonds from Kitsap and hand delivered 14 (yes! 14) gorgeously finished quilts: 6 twin sized that she did herself and 8 smaller ones that were pieced by Lauren Higbee, quilted by Karen and finished by Lauren.  My heart is just filled to bursting.  This means that every single woman residing at Kenmore Senior Women's Shelter and YWCA Pathways for Women and Children will have a quilt on her bed!  

Here is the wonderful stack from Karen:

And the ones made jointly by Karen and Lauren:

Ann Daniels made this one and even managed to get her picture taken with it at our Giving Quilts Sew In:

These were turned in at the meeting and are on their way to WestSide Baby:

These five from the meeting are headed to YWCA Pathways for Women and Children: the disappearing nine-patch was made by Dorothy Neville and the one with blue triangles on a white background was made by Beth Ratzlaff. The multicolor squares was made by Marla Varner. 

This twin is going to Kenmore Senior Women's Shelter; the top was pieced by an anonymous donor and left at a meeting in 2024! It was quilted and bound by Margaret Treleven Murphy.

And two more head off to YWCA Pathways for Women and Children:

Here's the back of that one...or is it the front? So gorgeous!

THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED!!

April 2025

Two quilts were completed by Bridget Slocum and donated to Kenmore Senior Women's Shelter.

Two tops rescued at SeaMQG retreat by GreenAmberDawn were graciously taken to be quilted by Jana Royal and Becki Willis.

 It really does take a village.  Thank you all!

March 2025

We held our first Giving Quilts Sew-In on March 8, 2025. It was a great success!

Our March SeaMQG in-person membership meeting was a wonderfully busy,fun-filled meeting with an array of Giving Quilts donated: 

Five fidget quilts will go to Hearthstone Nursing Home.

Four baby quilts will go to WestSide Baby.

Makers, left to right: Melinda Garberich, anonymous, anonymous, anonymous.

Two larger quilts are heading to Kenmore Women’s Shelter.

Makers, left to right: anonymous, Ann Crow.

Thanks to all who donated quilts this month!

Giving Quilts Pattern

Kenmore Senior Women’s Shelter

Join us in supporting elder women at the Kenmore Women’s Shelter
because getting older shouldn’t mean a life on the streets.

KSWS is A specialized shelter program serving retirement-age (or close to retirement age) women who are seeking shared housing solutions – e.g. renting rooms together in affordable/low income apartments or houses. The target population is senior women who are community-minded, socially-stable, and retirement-age (or close to retirement) with very low fixed income. Target shelter census is 30 women.  This Center opened in January 2025. Quilts of all sizes are appreciated; twin size quilts preferred.

YWCA Pathways for Women 

Eliminating racism, empowering women

This emergency women's shelter has provided safe housing and resources for single women and mothers with children experiencing homelessness in Snohomish County for more than two decades. YWCA Pathways for Women is a 45-day emergency shelter for single adult women and mothers with children. We strive to give all clients the opportunity to find decent, affordable, and safe housing for themselves and their children. Clients have their own room and meet regularly with an advocate to develop and execute a Housing Stability Action Plan. Quilts of all sizes are appreciated; twin size quilts preferred.