• Do you have a stack of 6" or 5" squares? Have you seen the disappearing 4 patch? Here's a great tutorial that shows you how to make it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA-10A_Uc6k
• Have you ever seen the disappearing nine patch? It's a great way to use up squares. http://quiltsatcs.blogspot.com/2007/04/disappearing-9-patch-tutorial.html OR http://snippetsofaquilter.blogspot.com/2007/10/charm-square-quilt.html
• Do you have a lot of misc. 2 1/2" strips in your scrap basket. Check out this Jelly Roll Quilt tutorial showing the use of scrappy strips instead of a purchased jelly roll  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNoZXjt_Ay0
• Do you have lots of strips of various sizes in your stash? How about a string quilt. Here's a link on how to make them "quilt as you go" so they finish up quicker http://www.maryquilts.com/heartstrings-qayg-blocks/. It's also a great way to use up batting scraps. You can cut those misc. batting scraps into squares and use them for this method. Mary has lots of other great quilt ideas on the left side of her page listed under "instruction sheets".
• Do you have a pile of 5" or 6" charms. Here's a great way to use them. You need 88 charms to make up this quilt. Click here for a picture and directions.
• Check out http://www.quiltville.com for some wonderful scrappy quilt ideas. Click on the free scrappy quilt patterns on the right hand side of Bonnie's webpage. Beware though...your head may explode with too many quilt plums!!
• Other great ideas for for charity quilts are: rail fence quilts, nine patches, 4 patches, Yellow Brick Road, the ideas are endless.
• Are you short on large pieces for quilt backs? Here's some ideas on pieced quilt backs http://pinterest.com/grandmaspearl/ideas-for-quilt-backs/ and http://pinterest.com/judyhasheider/quilt-backing-ideas/

Comfort Quilt Labels: We have a standardized HRQG label to place on each of our quilts. The label is available from one of our Comfort Quilt Chairs at each meeting. Special thanks to Marty Post for creating this wonderful labels.

2015 Comfort Quilt Update

On Wednesday, September 2nd, the Comfort Quilt Committee delivered 84 beautiful quilts to 4 agencies here on the South Shore. Everyone was thrilled to receive them and so very appreciative of all the guild's hard work and generosity. These quilts were given to Quilts for Kids, the Women's Resource Center in Plymouth, the Friends of the Homeless of the South Shore in Norwell and the South Shore Hospital Home Care Division. Let's continue this wonderful outreach we do, as we share our love of quilting with others. Congratulations, ladies!!!

2011-2012 Comfort Quilt Update

Special thanks again to our Comfort Quilt Committee co-chairs Vivian Cardinal and Joanne Joyce for such a wonderful job organizing our comfort quilts for the 2011-2012 year. During 2011-2012 guild members made 58 quilts that were given to the Comfort Quilt Committee for distribution.

The quilts were donated to:

1. Plymouth Area Coalition for the Homeless, KIngston, 23 children's quilts (one for every child currently residing there)

2.  South Shore Women's Resource Center, Plymouth, 9 women's quilts, 6 children's quilts

3.  Hospice of the South Shore, Rockland,  5 men's quilts, 3 children's quilts, 6 women's 

4. Quilts for Kids, South Shore Chapter, 6 quilts

2010-2011 Comfort Quilt Update

Special thanks to Comfort Quilt Committee co-chairs Vivian Cardinal and Joanne Joyce for doing such a wonderful job organizing our comfort quilts for the 2010-2011 year. During 2010-2011 guild members made 66 quilts that were given to the Comfort Quilt Committee for distribution.

The quilts were donated to:
    1.  The Hospice of the South Shore in Braintree
    2.  The South Shore Women's Resource Center in Plymouth
    3.  Plymouth Area Coalition for the homeless in Kingston
    4.  A family in Releigh, North Carolina affected by a tornado

2009 - 2010 Comfort Quilt Update 

Special thanks to Charlene Schultz and Sharon Ducey for the wonderful work they did coordinating our comfort quilts for the 2009-2010 year. The guild produced 82 comfort quilts that went to D.O.V.E. (Domestic Violence Ended) in Quincy, the Dianne Devanna Center (for the prevention of child abuse and neglect) in Braintree, and Camp Sunshine (supporting children with life threatening illnesses and their families in New England) in Sebago Lake, Maine.

2007-2008 Comfort Quilt Update

Special thanks go out to Jane Matthews and Joyce Archer for the wonderful work they did during our 2007-2008 year coordinating our comfort quilts. During the year the Herring Run Quilt Guild presented 49 quilts to the Weymouth Department of Social Services, Little Sisters of the Poor in Brighton, My Brother's Keeper in Easton and Pilgrims Hope in Plymouth.

2006-2007 Comfort Quilt Update

Many thanks to Linda Nicholson for her tireless work with the coordinating the comfort quilts in 2006-2007. Our hearts and hands were wide open as we donated a total of 47 quilts! We sent 24 to Carney Hospital Cardiac intensive care unit, 12 to The Diane Devana Home for abused children, and 10 to a center for the homeless and abused in Norwell.

Thank you to everyone in the guild that created all these quilts. Please know they are now being loved by those that received them and giving them lots of comfort and warmth.

Twenty-seven guild members that attend our 2011 Getaway created 28 star blocks that are being donated to the "Just One Star" project for quilts being made for wounded soldiers. Thanks to everyone that made a block and to Anne Marcin for coordinating our donation.