KINGSTON — Kids helping kids.

That was the bottom line April 21 as the Wolfle Elementary after school quilting club donated five baby blankets for the budding bundles of joy that are Kitsap County’s first quintuplets.

Though the Stevenson quints were still beginning life at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle at the time, the Wolfle quilters presented their infant gifts to one of the family’s friends, Linda Rohlinger.

“You guys are really, really great and you totally made Lilli a blanket, too,” Rohlinger said, smiling at the fact that the Wolfle club didn’t leave out the Stevenson’s 3-year-old daughter.

Wolfle’s quilters have been learning the sewing trade since the beginning of 2006 under the guidance of club instructors Kathy McNeely-Mobely and Katherine Wood. Then in March student quilter Mackenzie McMurrin came up with the idea of creating something for the quintuplets.

The Wolfle PTA helped by purchasing the fleece fabric, and the quilters went to work.

Taking a break from the 1/4-inch seam square pattern stitching of quilt-making, the Wolfle kids sewed together the fleece patterns which McNeely-Mobely cut out, creating five identical cuddly covers for the newborns.

“It takes about a half an hour for each blanket, but quilts take much longer than that,” McNeely-Mobely noted.

The Wolfle quilters also stitched together a kid-sized, big girl quilt made from cotton fabric for Lilli to ensure the she, too, would be comfortable through the change that five new siblings will bring.

Now the quilters are hoping to receive a photograph of the quints wrapped in the Wolfle handiwork.

“I told (the quints’) dad about this and he lit up like a Christmas tree,” Rohlinger said, adding that the pastel colors of the blankets should match the pastel scheme the Stevensons are planning for the quints’ bedroom. “He was so excited at the thought of kids helping kids and giving just to give.”