The Sit and Sew group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, 10:00am-2:00pm, at the Plano Sewing Center. RSVP to servicequilts@qgplano.org.

• Sewing machine
• Basic sewing skills
• Basic supplies, thread, needles, etc.

We have put together a list of free patterns available on the web that are ideal for making community service quilts.

If you would like to make something to donate to one of the agencies that we support, we have instructions for making several items. Check out the links below.

Simple Pillowcase
Pillowcase with Trim (PLEASE SEW DOWN THE TRIM)
Cuddles
Binding
Receiving Blanket

The Quilters Guild of Plano donated quilts following disasters to the victims of hurricanes in North Carolina, fire victims in California and flood victims in Kerrville, Tx.  We currently donate quilts and other items to the following organizations in Collin County and beyond:

The Mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover Service members and Veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor.

We have presented quilts to men and women that served from WWII to the most recent conflicts.

A child centered agency providing counseling, family services, forensic interviews and a Rainbow Room of clothing and supplies for children. Here children have a safe environment and counseling to tell their story after experiencing abuse.

QGP provides small, cheerful quilts, as well as seasonal pillowcases for the children. (Plano, TX 75074)

See their website at Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County

Bella House provides a safe, warm, and enriching atmosphere for homeless pregnant women, age 18 and older.

Bella House

Children’s Medical Center Plano provides medical care for children facing major illness or surgery. Throughout the year, 18″ by 24″ cuddle quilts are made by the guild for the young children so they will have something comforting to take with them for their MRI or CT scans and their hospital stay.

Children’s Medical Center Plano

City House provides this emergency youth shelter for children ages newborn to 17.  We donate quilts and afghans for newborns to age 17 years.

City House

The guild uses donated heavy fabric to make dog bed cases for members to take home and fill with their batting scraps.  Those dog bed cases are then delivered to any animal shelter or veterinary hospital in the neighborhood.

Plano ISD’s School-Age Parent Program assists students and their families dealing with the challenges of teen pregnancy. The students earn credits that can be spent twice a year to purchase baby items such as receiving blankets, small quilts, and other baby items.  We donate at the end of semesters in April and November.

Direction61:3 provides a network of support as older Foster and aged out youth (ages 14 –  24 transition to becoming independent young adults.

We donate lap size quilts and pillowcases for about 20 residents.

Direction61:3

The Plano Children’s Medical Clinic provides medical care to children who are on Medicaid, CHIP, or have no insurance. Read more at Plano Children’s Medical Clinic.

We donate receiving blankets, cuddles and taggies.

We donate quilts and pillowcases to both mother and their children while they live here before and after the birth of their child.

Emily’s Place offers domestic violence survivors a safe place to rebuild their lives. To break the cycle of domestic violence, for women and their children through, long-term transformational care, that seek to restore faith, hope, and health.

Emily’s Place

The essential human need for shelter lasts a lifetime and is difficult to maintain when an individual’s income is limited. Because we value people, we are committed to responding to this reality with affordable housing for low-income older adults and persons with limited mobility. We donate small throws and pillowcases to comfort, warm, brighten up their apartment homes. (Plano, TX 75074)

Plano Community Home

3″ squares, separated by color are collected and sent to about 100 makers in Honduras. The women use the squares to make bags, purses and quilts to sell for their family income and change their lives. (San Antonio, TX)

One Common Thread

Upholstery fabric is often donated and we pass it along to the only store in the US that utilizes only donated designer fabric to make unique eco-friendly animals for gifts and decor. (Denison, TX)

Monsters on Main

The Samaritan Inn provides a no-cost, safe and clean place to live. Living areas for men, women and families are separate.

We donate quilts sized 40” x 60” or larger along with pillow cases. (McKinney, TX)

The Samaritan Inn

Emergency care for all ages of children can receive a small quilt or a cuddle to comfort them while being cared for in the hospital.

Medical City Plano Hospital Trauma Center

Lovepacs was born out of a shared desire to help children in our community. In November 2011, the four founding families were made aware of 6 kids at Camey Elementary in The Colony who were being sent home from school every Friday with a backpack of food because they were not getting enough to eat on the weekend. After talking to the school counselor, they found out many of these kids were going to be hungry over the Thanksgiving holiday, when they were out of school for a week. The thought of kids not eating touched the hearts of those families, and they began Lovepacs to try to fill in the gaps for these children over the holiday.

The desire to assist children spread from The Colony to Plano. Hunter’s Glen Baptist Church collects food every month for Lovepacs in the Plano area, specifically Sigler Elementary. School counselors assist in identifying children on the free and reduced lunch program through area public schools. Lovepacs provides mostly non-perishable, easy to open, and minimal cooking food items to children during extended school breaks when the food they receive from the local backpack program will not be enough, e.g., Thanksgiving, Christmas, Spring Break, Easter.

The list of items to be collected is listed below. If you want to help feed hungry children, this would be a way for you to help. If you care to participate, there will be a collection box as you enter the guild meeting. For more info see lovepacs.org.

Lovepacs Items:

• Vegetables – 15 oz cans
• Fruit – 15 oz cans
• Chunky Soup – 15 oz cans
• Chef Boyardee -15 oz cans
• Meat – (tuna, chicken, vienna sausages ) – 5 oz cans
• Peanut butter
• Grape jelly

Your donations help Quilters Guild of Plano continue its mission to support quilters, foster creativity, and give back to our community. Contributions directly fund our educational programs, community service projects, and events that bring quilters together. Every donation, large or small, makes a difference and helps us provide resources, workshops, and quilts for local charities.

Thank you for supporting our quilting community!