Local Matters - Quilters spreading the warmth
Quilters spreading the warmth The Caring Quilters, together with Harbour Hospice’s spiritual carer Vincent Maire, with a quilt created to represent a holistic Maori model of care. Love, warmth and comfort is something every hospice patient needs, and that is exactly what goes into each of the 200 quilts made for Harbour Hospice every year by the Caring Quilters group. The group of eight volunteers meets regularly to stitch and sew fabric pieces into beautiful soft quilts that are donated to patients to use in their homes or as in-patients in hospice. Group spokeswoman Jan Adams says the gro...