Why does Charlotte Fairchild like Ponchos?

Because I get bored with what everyone else wears. I know some people who only shop at one store!

I know people who only wear one color!

I know people who only buy clothes for themselves!

Making ponchos hasn't caught on for church groups to give to people in hospitals and nursing homes who are sick. Prayer shawls take so much more time!

Quilters have given me their piles of fabric when they decide to stop making quilts and do something else.  I make ponchos and give them away.

It is a meditation and form of prayer for me.

People who receive ponchos pass them on to other nursing women or keep the poncho as a rememberance of the loved one (sort of like a tattoo that can be touched).

I made magnet snowmen for my family with the poncho my Dad wore every day the last month he breathed on this earth. I glued the fabic on old magnets from calender magnets my insurance rep gave to me over the years.

I can wrap spools from spent sewing machine thread with the fabric and make Christmas ornaments or tassels.

It is art for me to make a poncho. I am wearing art like the lace I sew onto the flannel that was inspired by the movie Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Have I found that friend? Have you?