Kathy: May I duplicate and share your story with others.

Holice

Sure! Thanks for taking an interest. I love what I do and, as I said, I like to brag on these men.

It just goes to show you the world is full of some wonderful people and you should never judge a book by its cover.

You are an amazing person to do so much for so many others.

This is a wonderful program. It is doing much good for the inmates besides producing the beautiful quilts.

You are definitely an Angel to these men! I loved your story! The quilts are beautiful, tell the guys, "Rock On". They are doing a wonderful job. There should be more of these programs in other prisons. Thanks so much for your service to them and your community! God Bless you all!

Wow... i'm so impressed w/your service to the inmates. You're doing a great job and what beautiful quilts! Bless you!

Thanks! I can truly say, "I love my job!" Not many can say that.

Kathy

WOW! Thank you and please thank the "Quilt Techs". You are all touching so many lives - what a wonderful idea!

It's wonderful to hear of positive things like this happening in a prison. It's a great program! Glad the warden took the initial chance to give it a try! Thanks for sharing the story

The Quilt Festival is presented by the Western Heritage Museum here in Hobbs. I usually save the "best" quilts that are turned in during the year and bring them for display. The quilts remain hanging for 1 month. The effort to hang an exhibit is enormous, so we let them live there that long. This is also a time when there isn't much else going on, except tourists, so it's a good time for the Festival. Every other year we have guest speakers an dendors, but this year we had a make-it-and-take-it workshop for anyone who was there. We even got a guy (husband) who really got into the whole quilting thing!!! He was so proud of his little 4-patch quilt he made. We were too!

The Festival is usually held from the middle of June to the middle of July. I don't know when it will be next year, yet.

Kathy