But after finishing the first two quilt tops, “I didn’t want them machine quilted,” she said, and put an ad in the Guardian Angels bulletin seeking quilters. Quilters Kate Kern (from left), Merty Gramlich and others worked on the quilt belonging to Bob Kazmierski recently in the basement of Guardian Angels Catholic Church. Every Wednesday with needles and thimbles they gather — up to a dozen women and one man — around a quilt frame in the basement of Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Westport. But after finishing the first two quilt tops, “I didn’t want them machine quilted,” she said, and put an ad in the Guardian Angels bulletin seeking quilters.

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