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East Bay Woman’s Quilts Comfort People In Crisis
When there's a crisis in her community, a Newark woman is known for turning to her sewing machine for ideas to help.
(KPIX 5) — When there’s a crisis in her community, an East Bay woman is known for turning to her sewing machine for ideas to help. Meredith Johnson runs a group called Happiness is a Warm Quilt, which she founded in 2017.
Johnson coordinates volunteers nationwide to manufacture quilts and pillow cases, contacting them through friends, Facebook, and her church group, the Gifted Quilters Guild in Newark.
Together, they’ve sewn and given for free nearly 2,000 quilts and more than 1,000 pillowcases to survivors of the North Bay and Butte County wildfires. “We’re giving these to people with no strings attached, other than you have to love it,” Johnson said.