By Connie Burcham
The old adage goes “Waste not, want not.” There are some quilters’ groups in Powell who are putting the adage into practice.
One group, the Waste Not Quilters, meets at the First United Methodist Church.
It was started about 2004, said Pastor Janita Krayniak, by Virginia Lindsay and Carol Lamb. Lamb wintered in the southern part of the U.S. and into Mexico. Each year Lamb would take quilts along to give to those living in poverty. Finally she told Lindsay it was something they needed to do as a mission. Lindsay, Lamb and Lindsay’s daughter, Christine, met and quilted every weekday, completing two quilts a week. The three members morphed into a larger group and it took off.
According to group member Diane Martin, they now meet as a group once a month, on the first Thursday, to work together on projects. Other…
