COLD HANDS, WARM HEARTS
BEAUTIFUL “UGLY” QUILTS Created for Missouri’s Homeless Veterans
project served as the spark for a Ladies Auxiliary effort to warm homeless veterans. Inspired by the vision of one woman who read a magazine article about “Ugly Quilts” in 1995, the church women had been sewing the bedroll- style blankets for needy and homeless individuals in their
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eep in a cold Missouri winter, one Auxiliary member’s church group
area. They pieced together hundreds from truckloads of donated, mismatched scraps of fabric and distributed them from downtown St. Louis to Missouri’s southeast bootheel. “It just grew and grew,” said Kathy Berkbigler, Auxiliary 3838, Cape Girardeau. “I’m just amazed at how willing people are to help with this project. I never dreamed it would take off like it has.”
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