The Tree City Quilters Guild organized a Days for Girls quiltatahon on Friday with the quilts going to the homeless.
The group met at Wesley United Methodist Church in Gainesville and laid out five quilts and, when completed, will be given to the GRACE Marketplace shelter in January.
Photo by Megan V. Winslow Daryl Mullee proudly displays a section of the blanket she has quilted.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Marité Haynes quilts together a square. The newspaper, which was employed as a guide to make the square, will eventually be removed.Photo by Megan V. Winslow A close-up of one of the blankets before its three layers are quilted together.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Carol Brake, right, helps Anastasia Carmichael, her boyfriend’s 12-year-old daughter, quilt.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Charlotte McVicar, 11, threads her sewing machine’s bobbin. Charlotte volunteered with her parents, Brittany Spaulding and James Spaulding and her cousin, Miles Watson, 8.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Donna Cann, right, quilts together squares of fabric. Each quilt contains 35 squares.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Carol Nabakowski brought her own sewing machine to the quilt-a-thon. On it, she has taped a portion of the Bible Psalm 16 With God always before me, my heart is glad, my soul rejoices.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Event organizer Radha Selvester organizes her crew of volunteers before the work begins.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Event organizer Radha Selvester uses a ruler and a rotary cutter to remove excess fabric from a quilt square.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Event organizer Radha Selvester, in orange shirt, leads volunteers as they pin the top and bottom of a quilt to batting, which will fit between them and provide insulation.Photo by Megan V. Winslow James Spaulding, center, helps fix a sewing machine.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Louise Clark uses safety pins to securely sandwich batting between the top and bottom portions of a quilt.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Radha Selvester, organizer of the quilt-a-thon, displays a finished blanket.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Strips of fabric are quilted to squares of newspaper as a way to ensure each quilt square is of equal size.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Sheri Daar, wearing a knitted head covering, quilts together fabric squares.Photo by Megan V. Winslow Tools volunteers use to assemble quilts and create Days for Girls kits at the Wesley United Methodist Church sewing center in Gainesville.Become A Member Mainstreet does not have a paywall, but pavement-pounding journalism is not free. Join your neighbors who make this vital work possible.
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The people inside of Grace have plenty of blankets, comforters and quilts, it’s the people living in their cars who are in need…