Play Quilt Bingo at Your Next Guild Party
Donate the Resulting Quilt to Charity!
We were originally attracted to this colorful quilt because of its scrappy vibrancy. It will brighten any room and adults will enjoy it as much as kids.
Then we realized it resulted from a Bingo game designed for quilt groups – Quilt Bingo! What a terrific idea for your next guild party.
Each player will need to make a block in advance to serve as their Bingo card (or have one made for them). Specific instructions are provided so that each square in the block is a different color and category, such as Yellow Dots or Blue Leaf. The squares match up with the printable calling cards. The players will also need 25 buttons or coins to serve as Bingo chips.
An example of what a “card” could look like. Use each of 15 categories once per color.
When the game is over the 10 1/2″ unfinished blocks, sashing, and colorful cornerstones can be sewn into a quilt. The designer, Staci from Crafty Staci, says:
“With all the different prints, we felt like this made a great I-spy quilt, and donated it a local organization to get it into the hands of a child.”
Your group could do the same. Or use it as a cute raffle quilt during your next fundraiser.
While the quilt has 12 blocks (12 Bingo players) you can easily add more for a larger quilt. Or, if your group is large you can make more than one quilt.
However, you don’t need to play Bingo to enjoy this fun quilt. It’s a simple project, perfect for scraps, and a great gift for a child and anyone else young at heart.
A printable pattern is also available and Staci has graciously given permission to share it among guild members:
“For this pattern only, please feel free to make copies as needed to distribute among your guild members for game play. All other copyright on the last page of the tutorial applies.“
You’ll find a “cheat sheet” each player can fill out to remind them of matching fabrics and calling cards here (are those faint snowflakes Holiday or Tone-on-Tone?).
Calling cards to print on cardstock or heavy paper are available here. It’s helpful to refer to these when selecting fabrics for your “card”.
