Service Quilts
Coordinator - Bev Fuchs
Baby Quilts
Baby quilts given to pregnant
teens in the GRADS program (PDF).
The quilts are given as incentive to take and complete the GRADS program. The
GRADS program helps students:
- Remain in school through
graduation
- Have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies
- Learn
practical parenting and child development skills
- Gain an
orientation to work
- Set goals toward balancing work and family
- Reduce subsequent pregnancies
Service Days are scheduled where several members gather to coordinate
fabrics, cut strips and piece together baby-sized quilt
tops. The
tops are packaged with backing, batting and binding for members
to take home to machine or hand quilt, and bind.
In 2009, 25 baby quilts were donated to the GRADS program. For more
information about the program, click
here to read the GRADS Fact Sheet.
James Stitching Sisters
Several quilts have been given
to the James Stitching Sisters. James Stitching Sisters is a group
of volunteers who create lap quilts for breast cancer patients receiving
breast cancer treatment at the Comprehensive Breast Health Center at
JamesCare in Dublin or at OSU East. Click
here for more information about the James Stitching Sisters.
 Quilts of Valor
The mission of the QOV Foundation is to cover ALL those servicemembers
and veterans touched by war with Wartime Quilts called Quilts of Valor
(QOVs). In 2009, Common Threads gave 1 quilt to QOV. Click
here for more information about Quilts of Valor.
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.
 2007
Group Challenge Quilt Show
Instead of individuals each making a quilt to enter in the yearly Challenge
Show, we formed groups and made one quilt top per group. It made
the experience much more fun - working together, building on each other's
ideas, and lessening the work load. The challenge was to pick a
packet of 3-4 coordinating fabrics and create a quilt with them, and
only adding additional fabrics from one's stash. The quilts tops were
given to the James Stitching Sisters to finish and give to the James
Cancer Center. Click here
to see all the entries.
 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
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 |
They wrote "Hello Marty and Common Threads, The quilt is so
beautiful and not common at all. I want to thank all the ladies who
helped make the quilt. The funds generated will help us build another
house for a family in need. Blessing on Thee, Robin Leslie".
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