Goal: NSQG is committed to making quilts to provide love and comfort for infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units of area hospitals. Annually, NSQG distributes more than 150 quilts to neonatal intensive care units at local hospitals.

Recipient Hospitals:
NICU Ascension Hospitals, Milwaukee
Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital
Open Door Cafe, Milwaukee

Guidelines

NSQG Love and Comfort
NEW INFORMATION
WHO: This is our NSQG charity quilt project
WHAT: Making quilts for those in need as they
would appreciate a beautiful
handmade/machine made quilt in their time of
need (see below for instructions)
WHEN: Bring your “love and comfort” quilts to drop off at each of our monthly meetings and they will
be taken to one of the receiving organizations to distribute.
WHY: To make a positive difference to those in need in our community using your remarkable quilting
skills.
HOW: Now you can make two types of Love and Comfort quilts that will go to one of three places!
Please read this before you make a charity quilt. Here are instructions:

1. NICU Quilts: We have researched needs at the NICU Ascension Hospitals – Columbia St Mary, St Joseph, and Qzaukee Campus. They continue to need 36″ X 36″ quilts — but they only want baby/child prints (all cotton, no flannel). From now
   on, please only make the NICU quilts using child/baby prints.
2. The “Open Door Cafe” for the homeless (at the Cathedral of St John downtown) would love our quilts –
   the sizes and fabrics can vary (48” x 54”, 55 x 65, but any size will do). You could even use fleece for the
   batting and backing (a lot less expensive).
3. Lap quilts for adults – Columbia/St Mary’s Hospital and St Joseph Hospital patients: you can make 40 X 60 or lap size charity quilts to go especially to older patients. Please use all cotton fabric,
   

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGES ABOVE: if you have child cotton prints, make quilts 36”x36”.
For all other fabrics (solids, other prints, flannels) please make larger quilts for adults.
Thank you for making the Love and Comfort quilts! They make a positive difference to the sick and
needy in our community.

Love and Comfort NICU Quilt Guidelines
Size: 36” x 36” up to 40” x 44”
Fabric: Soft 100% cotton – no metallic threads
Juvenile prints
Soft pastels
Brights
Batting: Bonded polyester batting (low to medium loft)
Binding: Pillow case method or standard binding (machine or hand)
Quilting: Machine – Straight line and/or decorative stitches (reinforce pillowcase
method 1-2” from the edge)
Hand Tie – square knots every four inches using embroidery floss or perle
cotton – NO YARNS!
Final Check: Check for stray pins, weak seams etc.

Sample Patterns:
Simple Patchwork: (cut 6.5″ squares, 6 rows, 6 blocks each)
Binky
Diapers
High Chair

See below for charts for cutting blocks and sashes, and for possible block layouts

Photos from previous Love n Comfort workshops

Charts for cutting blocks and sashes.	Medallion quilts
Four Block Quilts (2×2)	Nine Block Quilts (3×3)
Sixteen Block Quilts (4×4)	Quilts from Simple Squares

Drawings of possible quilts

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