Enchanted Quilters started making what they called “Comfort Quilts” last fall – just in time for Christmas.

So far they have given five of these home-made bedspreads to the elementary school, four for elementary students with special needs, four to the Lopez Family Resource Center in their Christmas boxes, two for the Children’s Preschool, three to the Sheriff’s Department and two to the Fire Department.

They plan on providing more quilts for the Domestic Violence or Sexual Assault Services.

“This is an ongoing project, we are not done,” said Carole Knutsen, a member of the Enchanted Quilters.

If, for instance, the EMTs give a child a quilt to take home, they will make more.

Knutsen was inspired after talking to the Fire Chief a few weeks again, when he told her about an elderly couple that were in a car wreck on a cold foggy day and could have used a blanket.

“They really are a work of art,” said Sergeant Scott Taylor when Knutsen delivered the three quilts that deputies will keep in their patrol cars.

Taylor said the blankets will be kept on hand for anyone that needs comfort or warmth.

“You really put your heart into it,” said Knutsen about making the “Comfort Quilts.”

She has been in the quilting group for five years.

“It has helped me to get to know people … and it has been a learning process,” she said. “It’s a great group, it’s like Lopez if you have a problem they reach out put their arms around you.”