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Coffee Creek Quilters Fabric Sale: 10/11/25

The Coffee Creek Quilters Fabric Sale will be Saturday, October 11, 2025, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. It will be at St. Francis Church Parish Hall, 8818 SW Miley Rd, Wilsonville (right off I-5 at the Charbonneau exit). We encourage carpooling!

There will be a huge assortment of fabric, patterns, quilt kits, books, tools, and notions — all at bargain prices. Our sale is an excellent opportunity for quilters, or anyone who sews, to pick up some wonderful fabric and sewing supplies at reasonable prices.

Please download our flyer for details.

All proceeds from the sale will go to support the CCQ prison quilting program.

Pillowcases by Coffee Creek Quilters

Pillowcases for the community

If you follow the Coffee Creek Quilters program, you are probably aware that we teach quilting classes at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Our students make quilts for distribution to foster kids, hospice programs, and others in need of the comfort that quilts provide. Did you know we distribute pillowcases too? Since 2013, we’ve distributed more than 1800 handmade pillowcases to organizations like Embrace Oregon, CASA, and Community Warehouse.

When we say pillowcases, we’re not talking about the plain vanilla pillowcases you can buy at big-box stores. Our pillowcases are made with quilters cotton in a wide variety of colors and designs — along with an added dollop of love and care.

The pillowcases are sewn by both students and volunteers. Students can make pillowcases in class while waiting for their third quilts to come back from the longarm quilters. These projects provide more practice in pattern reading and sewing techniques. Most of our volunteers are skilled quilters and sewists who just love to sew. According to CCQ President Gwen White, “Everyone appreciates the opportunity to spread a little joy.”

Student quilts go to local nonprofits

At a recent meeting of Coffee Creek Quilters volunteers, Linda Downey showed the group an assortment of quilts recently completed by our students. In the classes, each student makes three quilts; two are donated to various nonprofits and students keep their third quilts.

Linda coordinates the distribution of quilts to community organizations for CCQ. Currently four groups receive quilts:
Bloomin’ Boutique – for kids in foster care
Community Warehouse – for neighbors overcoming adversity
Emanuel Medical Center – for patients needing comfort quilts
Good Samaritan Medical Center – for patients needing comfort quilts

Linda mentioned that we recently received a letter from Chaplain Aaron at Emanuel Medical Center thanking CCQ for the quilts. “It might seem a simple gesture,” he wrote. “But offering people a hand-made quilt often brings them so much comfort and helps them engage their grief and loss. The quilts add so much to their experience, and often are a gateway to good story telling and thinking through a person’s life.”

Chaplain Aaron shared several stories of people who were comforted by our students’ quilts. Here’s one: “Just last week I supported a child who was sadly losing his mother. The quilt we picked out together was deeply meaningful to him. I shared some about the quilters and how they made it with people like him in mind. He said ‘wow, people out there are thinking about me?’ and then asked an aunt if he could sleep with the quilt that night as a reminder of the way his mother’s love will always cover him.”