Charity Central is a committee of WSQ that provides quilts to charitable organizations in Spokane. We accept donations of fabric, batting, quilt tops, and finished quilts. We provide batting when we can and pass tops and backs onto those willing to quilt them. We provide fabric and kits to those who would like to piece quilt tops and quilts that need binding to those willing to do that. We sell some of our fabric and other donated items at the quarterly membership meetings to raise funds. Charity Central is considered to be self-supporting and so tries to raise as much money through fundraising as we are budgeted for the year.
We have committee meetings through the year to sort and cut fabric, make quilt kits, make backings for quilts and cut batting for quilts. We donate quilts to various charitable organizations and keep track of these donations. We donate quilts kits to the Inland Northwest Machine Quilters for their annual quilting challenge. We also provide them with a yearly raffle quilt, if requested. We bring “to be quilted” kits to INMQ membership meetings. INMQ members quilt for us.
We sponsor and staff the Mountain of Quilts booth at the WSQ annual Quilt Show.
Charity Central is having Block Drive. We are using Bonnie Hunter’s 2025 Leader/Ender Challenge “Four Patch Fun”. She has really good cutting, piecing, and pressing directions. Bonnie is doing hers in pink and gold but ours will be scrappy. The block needs two strips at 2″ x 16″, one neutral and one colored. It finishes at 6″ and will work well with the rest of what Charity Central is currently using. The Challenge is to make 50 blocks between the July 2025 WSQ Membership Meeting and the July 2026 Membership Meeting. It takes 80 blocks to make a quilt and if we all make what we can, we will get a lot of tops made! You can drop your blocks off at each WSQ Meeting and we will get them made into kits for quilts. Thanks!
We challenge you to use all your strips, no matter what width, no matter what length, no matter what color. We want them all!
Sort your strips according to width, then length, and finally by color (this is optional – we love scrappy!).
Download the instructions by clicking on the chart.
Or try one of our quick & easy strip quilt patterns. Just click on the pattern to download the PDF.
