West Alabama Quilters Guild Shows Love To Uvalde Shooting Victims

TUSCALOOSA, AL — One Tuscaloosa County group used its talents to provide some needed comfort for the children of Uvalde, Texas, following a shooting at Robb Elementary School in May that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

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The West Alabama Quilters Guild — whose members can regularly be seen at events like the Druid City Arts Festival and the Kentuck Art Festival — has made 45 colorful quilts to send to the children of the community as part of the Project Linus initiative.

Project Linus is a nonprofit that works to provide hand-made blankets and quilts to children in need, with the expressed goal of giving a quilt to each of the 4,400 children in the Uvalde school district on their first day back at school.

Project Linus has chapters in all 50 states and is headquartered in Belton, Missouri.

Founded in 1991, the West Alabama Quilters Guild has grown to more than 100 members and meets the second Saturday of each month at the Tuscaloosa Department of Transportation building at 1000 Nick's Kids Avenue.

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