Post Messenger Recorder -

Each school year since 2000-2001, Kathy Marty has skillfully and lovingly helped each of the kindergarten classes make a quilt.

Retired kindergarten teacher Peg Unger, who taught in the Belleville School District for many years, was working through the alphabet and Marty, who was a teacher's assistant and still is 16 years later, offered to talk about 'Q is for Quilts.'

They decided that the kindergarten students could decorate a fabric square.

"At that point you might as well make it into a quilt," laughed Marty, who has been sewing since high school. "So I offered to make the quilt and 6...