Ugly quilts

Alice Happe works to sew an "ugly quilt' in her Sikeston home on Wednesday. Also pictured in the foreground are pictures of the completed blankets and toiletry bags which are tucked into the quilts before they are distributed among the homeless. Happe and other Bootheel Quilters Guild members have taken up the ugly quilts project, and are asking for clean, used fabrics to be donated to make the quilts. (Photo by Michelle Felter, Staff)

Quilters group helping assemble quilts for needy

michellef@standard-democrat.com

SIKESTON -- Quilters have found one more way to turn one man's trash into treasure.

For years, a group of women in Cape Girardeau has worked to construct "ugly quilts" -- or sleeping bags for the homeless and needy using worn, donated fabrics. And now members of the Bootheel Quilter's Guild, based in Sikeston, has joined the effort.

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