Desiree and I watched a short Netflix documentary about a unique quilting club of sorts. Titled The Quilters, the thirty-some-minute movie reveals the operation of a quilting club within a Missouri maximum-security prison. The prisoners in the club design and sew beautiful, personalized quilts and give them to foster children and charities.
All
the materials are donated, and inmates can participate in the program only if
they have no prison infractions on record. Several of the inmates in the club
are convicted murderers serving life sentences. Most have been incarcerated for
several years. No matter the path that led them to the quilting club, they are,
to a man, dedicated to doing their best work when producing the complex and
often quite stunning quilts.
The
work done by this quilting club is impressive and worth replication, and the
film offers a brief but meaningful look at what such a project can accomplish.
I’ve
posted a short trailer from the movie.
