MLK Jr Community Service Project

Today, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a commitment to serving others, 22 volunteers came together at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Sherborn, MA, blending their talents of hand sewing, machine stitching, cutting and piecing fabric squares, pinning, backing and quilting comfort quilts. 

A dozen beautiful quilts were worked on and finished. These will be given to women and men undergoing chemotherapy and for the Linus Project which provides comforting quilts and blankets for children facing hardship.

Many thanks to Cris Crawford, member of the UUAC, First Parish in Sherborn, and part of the Rhododendron Needlers Quilt Guild in Walpole, who has coordinated the Power of the Quilt Project for the past three years.

Some participants experienced their very first quilt-a-thon today, and others have been quilting for 20 or more years!

You can see the love being put into these incredible creations, as witnessed in the faces of those involved.

The label lovingly hand sewn to each completed quilt.

Margaret May
A part of The Power of the Quilt Project
for 10 years.

Tobi Hoffman at work on a "Jelly Roll" quilt.

11-year-old Sage LaFleur is making her first-ever quilt today!

Sally, Sue, Jeanne and Sandy pitch in 

to pin Margaret's quilt to "batting" and a fabric backing. 

See one of the quilt squares close up, below.

Margaret and Cris display the finished quilt.