Charity Quilts / Comfort Quilts / Random Act of Kindness Quilts...Whatever you WANT to call them!

I have struggled coming up with an easy pattern for quilts that I give away. I don't want them to LOOK like a threw them together. I don't want them to LOOK like orphan blocks, or to seem like they are from cheap fabric. Figuring out the RIGHT size has been a challenge as well. So...after spending way more money , in the past, then I really wanted to, I finally came up with a simple quilt, in a pattern I like - in the size I like (or I'm willing to spend time making...) - and a plan I like! I'm not going to actually PLAN anything - as I am terrible at deadlines and I am really terrible at personal deadlines. Nobody else in my guild, or that I know that sews, is doing them like this. I have made 2 RAK quilts in the last week & a half. RAK = Random Act of Kindness Quilts. I think I could have done 3 but my 1st one came out too big. Obviously ... no pattern....I'm just winging it.


The quilt (tops only - not quilted yet) are shown on the top of a queen size bed.


This brown one is the size I will be making. it's 59x82. This is a fairly passive print. It was easy on the eyes.

This purple print one is BRIGHT! It was very hard on the eyes! It is also too big. I will still give it away - but it's just bigger than I want to spend a whole lot of time making. 70x98

I have several more cut out. I use these as therapy sewing. Really mindless.


Here are some little Peg Dolls that I have been working on. These can't be given to a child. The wings are made of feathers (bought them premade at Hobby Lobby in the floral section) & I glued them on their backs. I also drilled holes & put the wire antenna in. They are just a little too fragile for a little kid to play with. I used a sharpie to make the eyes. It ran when I sprayed the sealer on them. Live & Learn. I'm not doing them for any special reason, just to do them.