RSVP Mystery Quilter!

Joann Linder contacted the RSVP  office with the answer to our Who-Made-The-Quilt Mystery.

Millie Brewer, RSVP volunteer for over 17 years, made the quilt in 1998.
Great work, Millie!

In a recent newsletter, we asked for your help to solve the mystery of the quilt.  A beautiful quilt used to hang in the Volunteer Center of Johnson County office at Metcalf South mall.  The quilt moved along with the RSVP program to the Shepherd’s Center Central office at Johnson County Community College, where we have received many compliments and inquiries about it.

Happily, after seeing our story in the Fall newsletter, Joann Linder contacted the RSVP office with the answer to our mystery.  Millie Brewer, an RSVP volunteer for over 17 years, made the quilt in 1998.

Millie started volunteering with the RSVP program after signing up with a friend.  Shortly after enrolling, Millie signed up for a class she saw advertised to learn how to make lap quilts.  She then volunteered to make lap quilts for patients at local hospitals.  It was volunteer work that she could complete while also staying home to care for her ailing husband.  Although Millie knew that she

was still perfecting her quilting abilities at that time, she said that she would show each and every lap quilt she completed to her husband before turning it in to the Volunteer Center.  And each and every time she showed a completed quilt to her husband, he would exclaim that it was absolutely beautiful!

When staff at the Volunteer Center gave Millie a pattern and a request for a quilt, she set about making the quilt that we pictured in the last newsletter.

We certainly agree that Millie, and all of our volunteers, have hearts of gold!

But, what’s Millie up to these days?
Once a volunteer, always a volunteer.
Millie is making beautiful baby caps and gorgeous afghans.