The Inter-Mountain photo by Edgar Kelley From left, Fresenius Kidney Care and Dialysis Center’s Linda Coleman, Janine Zurbuch and Paula Lowther talk with Cora Nucilli, right, from the Log Cabin Quilters’ Guild this week. Nucilli and other members of the Log Cabin Quilters’ Guild were at the facility Tuesday donating homemade quilts for dialysis patients.

ELKINS — Each year the Log Cabin Quilters’ Guild raises money to make quilts for local people going through dialysis.

On Tuesday the organization delivered 30 quilts that will be distributed to patients at the Fresenius Kidney Care and Dialysis Center in Elkins. 

“The quilts slowly get done throughout the year and when they are returned to me, I drop them off at the Dialysis Center,” Cora Nucilli, Dialysis Committee Leader for the Log Cabin Quilters’ Guild, told The Inter-Mountain. “After we deliver them, the nurses take the quilts and hand them out to the patients.”

Those in the Guild, and other community members, all have a hand in putting together the quilts, which feature many different styles and designs. 

“All of the quilts we provide to the Dialysis Center are all unique,” Nucilli said. “Once a year, typically in March or February, the Quilters’ Guild gets together and we cut all the pieces out for the quilts. We then hand those out to all the Guild members and they sew them up. After that we bring them back and bind them all together before we send them out to other members of the community to put together.”

Nucilli said patients receiving the quilts are always appreciative of the generosity of the Log Cabin Quilters’ Guild. 

“The nurses say that the patients absolutely love the quilts,” Nucilli said. “With dialysis, the patients have to come in multiple times a week to get their blood filtered. (The nurses) said that they have patients who bring their quilts in every time that they get their blood filtered, because it makes you really cold when they give you the new blood because it has to be refrigerated. So the quilts help keep them warm during that process and the nurses say that the patients are just so thankful to have such a nice item.”

Some of the quilts that were donated Tuesday were on display during the organization’s Log Cabin Quilt Show during the Mountain State Forest Festival.

Darlene Lindsey, Theresa Kee, Jill Bentley, Susan McCauley, Erman Snyder, and Mark and Kathrine Tenney from Mountain State Quilting were among the community members who helped make the quilts.

“The Log Cabin Quilters’ Guild has been blessing us for over 20 years now by providing us with homemade quilts for every one of our dialysis patients,” said Fresenius Kidney Care and Dialysis Center Nurse Jeanine Zurbuch.

“We are very grateful for them. They have fundraisers during the year that they take upon themselves to raise money to buy the material for the quilts. It’s just a blessing and we are grateful that after 20 years we can still depend on them to give our patients such a great blessing.”

For more information about the Log Cabin Quilters’ Guild, visit the organization’s Facebook page.