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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

20,000 quilts

This local Midland Quiltmakers group has reached 20,000 quilts made for charity and delivered around the world.
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Faye Tennant, from Midland, jokes with friends Tuesday morning at the Church of the Brethren during the weekly Midland Quiltmakers meeting. Tennant has been attending the meetings for 10-12 years and helped the group make 20,000 quilts as a form of charity. Alone, Tennant has made 3622 quilts, for every hundredth quilt, she makes it an angel theme. "People who come to my house say 'What is this, a business?'" she joked. "I've got boxes all over the place, but they're all neat." Although she meets with the other quilters in an old nursery at the church, Faye says she completes a lot of work at her home quilting studio, often completing 5 quilts in a day. On Monday, 24 quilts were picked up by Mary Ann Howard of the Saint Catherine's Guild to be distributed to the Pregnancy Aid of Midland County.
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1 comments:

Amanda said...

I am increasingly a fan of the comprehensive caption. Kudos.

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