What have you done during this COVID-19 pandemic?
Sophie Parkinson, age 93 years, has been having her own, one-woman quilting bee, making lap quilts for long-term care residents to use on their wheelchairs. Parkinson has donated a total of 35 lap quilts to Battlefords District Care Center and River Heights Lodge.
In discussion with Lori Nachtegaele and Karrie Kramm, recreation therapists at BDCC and RHL, Parkinson said making these lap quilts is her therapy and that it 鈥渒eeps my head going.鈥� She also asked if these facilities were receiving quilts like these from the many quilters in the community. At both facilities, the staff said, 鈥渘o.鈥�
Parkinson is challenging all other Battlefords area quilters to support local long-term care centers by donating quilts or lap robes.
Quilting is a craft Parkinson learned from her mother, Mrs. Leite, when all quilts were hand sewn. The lap quilts she donated are sewn on her sewing machine.
Parkinson has made many, many quilts over her 93 years, sewn with love, wearing out many sewing machines. She is an excellent example of how to use pandemic time of social isolation to put skills to use for others in need in our community.
If she can do this, so can you.
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