world relief

Taking pictures is part of my job as newspaper correspondent

and taking pictures of these quilts today was very enjoyable.

Local women from our two churches get together every year

 to make quilts for Lutheran World Relief.

There is a team that cuts all the fabric odds and ends into squares...

and another group pieces them together.

Then the group comes together at the church to lay them out for tying.

Aren't they pretty?

Quilts are also distributed locally to the handicapped, a crisis center,

the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and Ronald McDonald house.

This year they are handing out 150 of these beauties.

Quilters affect eternity...they can never tell where their influence stops.

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