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A group of quilters from Overland Park just collected more than 2,500 yards of fabric and hundreds of pounds of other quilting supplies. However, it’s not for their own use.
OP group sends supplies for Missouri prisoners to create quilts for kids
The Blue Valley Quilters Guild collected supplies to take to a prison in Licking, Mo. A group of inmates there will turn it all into quilts for kids in foster care.
“It’s a give, give situation,” said Pat Conover from Blue Valley Quilters Guild. “The children are happy, the men who make them are happy. It’s wonderful.”
If this story sounds familiar, it might be because of the 2024 Netflix short, The Quilters. The streaming platform featured this reformative program as a documentary…