Santa Barbara News-Press: April 28, 2020

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Adapting to the times: nonprofit Coastal Quilters Guild shifts focus to providing masks for the community By TESS KENNY NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

‘HEY MAN, THEY WALKED H ON THE MOON. LET’S DO THIS!’ Santa Barbara Public Library offers numerous virtual services to help children, adults alike

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urricane Katrina, Japanese earthquake victims, the COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO Montecito mudslides, and countless worthwhile organSanta Maria High graduate Bryan izations. The Coastal Quilters Guild of Santa Barbara Barriga and Goleta has lent its sewing skills to causes near and far, donating quilts to anyone in need of a little extra comfort. Now, the nearly 200-strong nonprofit has adapted to serve the community yet again, this time using its supplies for something everyone’s scrambling to get their hands on these days – masks. Since March’s stay-at-home COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO order left guild members with- Santa Maria High graduate Bryan out their monthly meetings or Barriga usual quilting projects, President Karen Pickford knew their idle sewing machines could be used for some good. So when a By MITCHELL WHITE member reached out to suggest NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER the guild make cloth masks, she knew the idea was the perfect ryan Barriga admits PHOTO he COURTESY answer to her quarantine query. have the typical Karen didn’t Pickford, president of the “We’re happy to jump in and childhood experience. Coastal Quilters Guild, has spent help the community like we alWhen was 4, Bryan’s father was the pasthe few weeks making ways have,” said Ms. Pickford. diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, masks for the community. “We’re used to the giving, but it’s a disorder of the inner ear, and has been unable to work ever since. At 7, a different use of our talents.” Over the years, guild mem- his mother and younger sister were deported to Mexico. bers have volunteered their time to supply quilts to not just “I to think it just drove me,” Bryan Bycauses MITCHELL WHITE local families and organizations, but around the toldtothe News-Press during a recent NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER world. Yet the nonprofit is no stranger adaptation. Previous phone interview. “I knew that projects have included the likes of Christmas stockings, pil- I needed to have a better future for my ryan Barriga admits heparlowcases, bedding, shopping bags and even placemats. ents and I justhave wanted totypical help them didn’t the With their previous track recordout. speaking for itself, guild They’ve done soexperience. much for me just childhood members weren’t surprised by Ms.soPickford’s call to create I could have an education.”

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