Coffee Creek Quilters is pleased to announce that, with the resumption of quilting classes at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, we are now also able to resume taking donations.

Donations can be brought to Wisdom House, the small white building at the rear of the property of St Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church in Wilsonville on the third Wednesday and Saturday of each month from 10 am to 11:30 am (8818 SW Miley Road) beginning September 18th. Volunteers will be present to accept donations during these hours. Donor receipts will also be available at that time.

Due to limited storage space, we will focus on the fabric and supplies needed for the classroom and release kits. Please review the suggestions below as you put together your donation.

• One yard or more 100% cotton quilting fabric. Think about what you would use for children’s quilts and comfort quilts in hospitals and nursing homes. Students also get to make a quilt for themselves or gift one. Particularly popular are bright colors, blacks and grays, and batiks.
• Backings are always needed.
• Cotton batting 45 by 65 or larger.
• Packaged precuts – layer cakes, fat quarters, jelly rolls, charm packs.
• Notions for release kits – quilting rulers, needles, rotary cutter blades, rotary cutters, cutting boards, universal sewing machine needles.
• Panels – students like nature scenes, bears, wolves, Indigenous themes.
• Thread.
• Quilting books for release kits – no more than five years old and no templates.
• Patterns – beginner to confident-beginner using squares, rectangles and half square triangles.
• Quilt kits – again, beginner to confident-beginner for release kits.

What to avoid

• Flannel, wool, cotton blends, anything polyester, minkie, fleece, homespun.
• Seasonal/holiday fabric or panels.
• Cotton pieces smaller than one yard.
• Quilt magazines.
• Polyester batting or smaller pieces of cotton batting.
• Sergers.
• Quilt frames.
• Sewing machines – at this time, we have enough for release kits for at least two years.