They are followed by quilt patterns for sale. A great way to use up those precut squares is to make a smaller quilt. Many of these patterns are small quilts that you can finish in a weekend.

Every quilt is made of 100 percent cotton or fleece for washability, and they range from small fleece blankets for premature babies in neonatal intensive care units to larger quilts for teenagers.

Rockwell, a children’s book artist and author from Bridgeport’s Black Rock section, has chronicled the quilt-making group effort in her new book, “The All-Together Quilt,” published by ...

Bank of Hawaii employees helped children decorate a quilt with handprints Monday at HUGS House in Kaimuki. The king-size quilt will be auctioned at the HUGS fundraising gala dinner May 12.

They’re made Squad Car Quilts on Tuesday. The quilts are in each of the department’s squad cars. They’re given to children they meet on calls, who need a bit more comfort in a scary situation.

These kids had deployed parents, and Alexander had a way to help. Starting in April of that year she and a group of volunteers got together to start Quilts for Kids, a one-of-a-kind program at JBLM.