If you visit Christ First United Church on a Tuesday morning, in a bright and cheery room across from the Children’s Sunday School room, you will find 6-8 ladies busy with sewing machines and a quilting frame.
Their accomplishments are impressive. Every year they create and sell quilts with one always designated for a raffle with proceeds given to the church. The quilts can be from personal projects, baby quilts, lap quilts, but mainly queen size quilts.
The group was formed in 1941 by Frances Osbourne, wife of the Rev. Stanley Osbourne, who invited ladies of the congregation to form a quilting group.
There have been many leaders through the years with a few ladies looking after the financials, most of which are donated to the church.
The group used to have a membership of more than 20 ladies, but the numbers have gone down through the years with 8 members presently. The history of the members has been preserved in a huge quilt on the wall outside the quilting room. This quilt includes the names of all the Quilters since the very beginning and shows the history of the church through embroidered images of the original log cabin through various stages of completion to the day of the present stone building on Lakeshore Rd. Port Credit Campus.
The group is very grateful for material donated plus sewing machines. The quality of the quilts is enhanced by the creative designs our ladies have created and the colours are wondrous.