comfort quilts

[patches4]

Hi Ladies and Gents
Many of you have made quilts for friends of yours that are undergoing cancer treatments, have suffered an illness, support and the like. Out of curiousity how big have you made them. I was thinking of tie-ing the quilts to get them done quicker since I do not machine quilt very wellm so-----my question to the esperts is how big do you make them? Also, what type of batting do you place inside??

(I wanted to add something like the following to each quilt--wrap yourself in this quilt and think of it as a hug from me.

This is not my original thought someone told it to me just for the record.)

Many thanks for your help once again.

[mequilter9158]

The quilts for breast cancer are usually a lap size....that way it's not too bulky to be toted around.

[quilterbee]

I do no wider than 40" so I can use a regular cut instead of a fat back and about 70" long. My dad took his every day to treatments and it was a good size for the chemo recliners. hths, Amie

[patches4]

Thanks for the advice.
have agreat day and now off to sewing!!!!!!

[Chrissy1]

When our son passed from brain cancer several years ago, our grandson went to Helping hands healing hearts at Hospice. At the end of the six weeks of meetings he was allowed to pick out a "hug" from Project Linus in our local area. It was a flannel rag quilt. It is a bit larger than a lap quilt size, more long than square and to be honest, there are times when we all try to get our hands on it.