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Embroidered hands represent contributors
By Jim Carney
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Saturday, Jul 05, 2008
CUYAHOGA FALLS: How many hands does it take to say thank you to a wounded veteran?
In one case, the answer is 58.
That's how many embroidered hands are on a quilt made in Mary Sullivan's neighborhood off West Bath Road.
''I had seen the veterans coming back home on the news,'' said Sullivan, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Wanting to make a difference in the life of one of those veterans, she came up with the idea of a community quilting project.
Sullivan knocked on doors and dropped off fliers in her neighborhood, and a year later the result is hanging on a wall at the Cuyahoga Falls Library.
The 58-inch-by-77-inch red, white and blue quilt is called Caring Hands.
One red square with a blue outline of a hand has the name Sarah, age 14. Another has a handprint from Mya, age 2.
The images of two baseballs accompany another print.
One square has a hand, a guitar and an 18th hole.
One handprint is giving the peace sign.
The Taylor family has four hands represented on the quilt. There's a print for Ginny and Greg and their daughter Caitlin, who's a 27-year-old Army first lieutenant serving in Kuwait with the Ohio National Guard. The fourth Taylor print is 4-month-old Ethan, Greg and Ginny's grandson; it was made when he was 1 month old.
''Everybody had their own creativity,'' Ginny Taylor said of the way the project came together. ''It looks really good.''
The handprints of Paulyne Popiel and daughters Susan Popiel of Cuyahoga Falls and Patty Klayko of San Jose, Calif., are also on the quilt.
''Each person did their own thing,'' said Paulyne Popiel, a mother of five, grandmother of six and great-grandmother of two.
Sullivan said she will probably start a neighborhood drive to collect white T-shirts and socks to give to disabled veterans.
To find a disabled veteran to receive the quilt, Sullivan is working with retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joseph ''Joe'' Gross, 31, a Stow resident and Cuyahoga Falls native who lost a leg at the knee in a suicide car bombing in Iraq in 2005.
Gross is the area outreach coordinator for Ohio with the Wounded Warrior Project.
To contact Gross to offer assistance for wounded veterans, e-mail jgross@woundedwarriorproject.org.
Jim Carney can be reached at 330-996-3576 or jcarney@thebeaconjournal.com.
CUYAHOGA FALLS: How many hands does it take to say thank you to a wounded veteran?
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