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​Cuddle Quilts
The Heart of Hamilton Quilters Guild
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Our Official Charity Wing

​To donate fabric or for more information on how you can help, please send an email to cuddlequilts@hamiltonquiltguild.ca

Meetings ARE HELD the 3rd Tuesday of the month from September to June.

What does this group do?
Cuddle Quilts is a group of volunteers from the Hamilton area working together to produce quality quilts that will help improve the lives of others within our community. Cuddle Quilters are provided with quilt patterns, fabric and batting to create a "lap quilt" from start to finish.  You can be as involved with the group as suits your schedule.  Many hours are put into this program by individuals who want no recognition yet are grateful for the opportunity to give back to their community. 
Who benefits?​
Each year HQG Cuddle Quilts gives away more than 200 quilts and over 100 placemats in Hamilton. We also give away specially-made pillows for breast cancer survivors.

The group works closely with the following groups to ensure the needs of their clients are met in a caring and practical way:
  • Bob Kemp Hospice receives lap quilts.  Clients entering the hospice receive a quilt to have during their stay.  After their passing and during the "Leaving Ceremony," the families are given the quilt in memory of their loved ones.
  • Inasmuch House Women's Shelter.  Quilts of various sizes are given to the shelter who in turn give them to the women and sometimes their children as they leave the shelter to set up a new and safe life for themselves.
  • Hamilton Public Health Nurse Partnership Program are given baby quilts made by the Hamilton Cuddle Quilters.  The Partnership Program nurses team works with young, high risk, first time mothers and their families in Hamilton by offering an intensive home visitation program.  This program follows the young mom through her pregnancy and the first two years of her child's life. A baby quilt is given on her child's first birthday.  
  • Meals-on-Wheels Program receives over 100 placemats for distribution to clients for their meals at Christmas time.  
  • Wellwood Cancer Centre is the recipient of breast pillows which they distribute to patients recovering from mastectomies.  

How can I help?

  • Join the group as they meet together from 9:00 am - 2:30 pm on the third Tuesday of the month. You do not have to be a member of Hamilton Quilters Guild to participate in Cuddle Quilts, but we absolutely welcome new members! Please come for all or part of the day to sew or help assemble kits.   
  • Email the group leader at cuddlequilts@hamiltonquiltguild.ca about donating a quilt you've already made or want to make--there are size requirements. 
  • Donate 100% cotton fabric and/or quality batting for use in the quilts.​

Meetings and what to bring

Cuddle Quilts meets at St. Andrews United Church, 479 Upper Paradise Road  (corner of Mohawk Road and Upper Paradise Rd; please use the back parking lot off of Costain Drive).  Please enter the church hall from the rear parking lot.  We are thankful for the support and sponsorship from St. Andrews United Church for providing a home base for Cuddle Quilts and hosting our monthly meetings!

We supply fabric, cutting mats, irons, rotary cutters, rulers and batting.  Please bring your sewing machine, thread and basic sewing kit if you want to sew that day.  If you want to help make kits, iron, cut, you just need to bring yourself AND a lunch.  Coffee and tea are provided.