A dragon-themed quilt is being made for the Dragon Scholarship Fund to raise money to give scholarships to students. Teacher Kathy Comstock is working together with her students to create the quilt. The bidding will start at $75 at auction and Comstock estimates the quilt to be worth around $150. “I think it’s important for the community to see what we do in our classrooms and also it’s important for the students to give back to the community,” Comstock said.

Comstock found the design online, and changed it to be dragon-themed. She worked with her classes to finish the product. She consulted with her students on which fabric patterns to use and then bought the agreed upon designs.

Clothing Seminar cut the patches in proper sizes and sewed the patches together and Design Strategies oversaw the process and made sure all the patches went together nicely. “I helped with the layout and I ironed and helped cut the fabric for the quilt” Peter Lo said. “At first I didn’t know if it was going to be completed because there was a bunch of pieces but when its all put together it looked really cool.”

The embroidery machine was used to place a ‘J’ and a dragon on certain patches. “Some of [the students] helped cut, some of the kids helped sew we just kind of all worked together until it came to the point where one person needed to start working on putting all the pieces together,” Comstock said.

The patches were sewn together again into even bigger patches and repeated until the quilt was finally assembled. “I brought in the fabrics to chose from,” Comstock said. “Sometimes the fabric comes before the pattern, in this case, they were kind of together.”

After it was put together, Comstock gave it to book keeper Sharon Von Hagen to quilt. “I agreed to do this because I have been with the district for almost 14 years, and I thought this would be a way to give something back,” Von Hagen said.

Quilting creates the design that is seen on top of the quilt. After this process is finished, Comstock will finish the binding process.

Quilting is the process to put three fabrics together, which are the pattern, batting and the back. Batting is what makes the quilt warm.  “I take the ‘long-arm’ quilting machine and stitch a pattern onto the three pieces that will lock them together,” Von Hagen said.

The quilt has been in the works for around two weeks and is nearly done. “I would say the hardest part is making sure it all comes together, making sure that all of your blocks come together at a point that way it looks nice,” Comstock said. “The easy part to me is finding the fabrics and the patterns.”

The Dragon Scholarship Fund Auction sends profits from the tickets and items to students at the high school in the form of a scholarship. Tickets are $35, which includes meal, auctions and entertainment. All sorts of items are sold at the auction such as art, events to a overnight stays at hotels and a tractor.