Appleseed
Quilters Guild
Philanthropy
Camp Watcha-Wanna-Do
Serving adolescent cancer survivors in Northeastern Indiana and the surrounding areas, the camp provides recreational opportunities and support for those children, and their families. Camp programs are free to participants and held at YMCA Camp Potawotami, surrounded by woods, meadows, lowlands and Blackman Lake. Each year, AQG takes over 100 quilts for campers to choose on their first day.
For more information about the camp, please click here.
Quilts should be 45" x 60" or larger. Instruction sheet
Touch Quilts
Touch quilts provide comfort, calming and stimulation for people with late-mid- to late-stage Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. AQG creates touch quilts for the Alzheimer's Association and various care facilities in and around Fort Wayne, Indiana. As an ongoing project, For more information about the Alzheimer's Association please click here.
VA Hospital
AQG adopted the Fort Wayne Veterans Administrative Hospital as one of our philanthropy projects in 2026. This organization supports five regional VA facilities in Indiana and Ohio, including in-patient, rehab, and long-term-care facilities. In our first year of working with the VA, more than 100 quilts were donated, ranging from wheelchair lap quilts to bed-size quilts. We're proud to help the VA serve those who sacrificed so much to serve our country.
Dog Beds
Dog Beds and Quilters? Two sure things about quilters – if you quilt you’ll have scraps and secondly, you’re also creative! After you’ve created every possible quilt item, those scraps of fabric and batting find a much-needed and useful destination……. Dog Beds! Currently, AQG members make and donate dog beds, here locally, to Humane Fort Wayne on Lake Avenue and Animal Care and Control. Instruction Sheet
Agape Wheelchair Covers
One of AQG’s newest philanthropies is Agape Mobility Wheelchair Cushion Covers for Ethiopia. This projected started at AQG in March of 2026. Wheelchair cushions are important for comfort and enhanced circulation.
Agape Mobility Ethiopia, a local Fort Wayne philanthropy, takes used wheelchairs donated in our community, repairs them and ships them for distribution in Ethiopia. Headwaters Church donates the materials and AQG helps make the cushions that go on the chairs.
The cushion covers are not quilted, they are sewn, and very easy to make. Kits are available at any AQG meeting with instructions. Kits are taken home to sew and returned at the next month’s meeting.
Ethiopians do not have access to mobility devices in their own country. Agape Mobility Ethiopia takes used wheelchairs, walkers, rollators and crutches, donated in our community, repairs them and ships them for distribution in Ethiopia.
If you are in the Fort Wayne area and have mobility devices to donate, please visit their site.
