Finding a common thread: People Comforters a fabric in community

Imagine making 10,000 quilts.


That is a feat a nonprofit called People Comforters has done for the past 30 years. The group meets three times a week at the Seniors’ Resource Center in Evergreen to cut and sew fabric into quilts with every pattern imaginable.

Their quilting obsession is funded by grants from the Victim Assistance and Law Enforcement board through the Jeffco district attorney’s office. In addition, the group gets donations from the Evergreen Elks, Conifer Newcomers & Neighbors and other groups.

Most of the quilts go to sheriff’s deputies and emergency responders, who have something comforting to give victims in many situations. Others go to the Ralston House Child Advocacy Center in Arvada, and the group makes toiletry bags for the nonprofit Family Tree.

DeCicco added: “It’s incredible what comes out of this little group.”

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By Deb Hurley Brobst
Tuesday, June 18, 2019