Joan Potters’ room has transformed into a makeshift workshop — colorful fabric swatches and sewing tools on nearly every surface.
Every day, you can find Potters, 93, carefully crafting dog beds from fabric scraps left over from the Greater San Antonio Quilting Guild.
“I just am happy to do it for them and to know that some dog is going to be comfortable,” Potters said. The dog beds go from her room to animal shelters around San Antonio, like the San Antonio Humane Society and the Paul Jolly Center for pet adoptions. “It makes me feel so good to know that they’re not going to be laying on cement or a hard floor or in the winter,” Potters said.“I get tired, but I’ll just keep doing it until I can’t do it anymore,” Potters said.“I cut up rags for days until I have enough to stuff with,” Potters said.Missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ will occasionally help her with the sewing, delivering around 30 to 40 beds to dog shelters each month.“You know their bones ache, too. You know they have feelings.
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