A friendship quilt is like a well-autographed yearbook that keeps you warm. To add something personal, a quiltmaker sends fabric swatches to friends to sign and then sews the patches into the quilt’s ...

On a recent Sunday morning a former pastor's daughter, home on a visit from California, brought an old friendship quilt to our church in Greasy Valley (I know, strange name but that is a story within ...

Quilting a Memory: Friendship and Commemorative Quilts September 17 - November 19, 2011 Come celebrate the creative spirit of generations of area quilters with a memorable exhibition. Quilting a ...

Kathryn Mooney Wall is a sprightly 94 years old and a treasure trove of history. In her Shelby home off Grover Street, she has a photo sitting on the dresser in her bedroom of her as a small child ...

How do you remember your family and friends? In 1845, Hagerstown resident Ellen Cecelia (Carver) Mobley began a friendship quilt to remember her loved ones. Before her death in 1899, Ellen had ...

Verna Gingerich, Esther Yoder, Dorothy Bender Yoder and Edna Blough Miller recently sat in front of the friendship quilt for which they made squares while they were working in the 1940s for the Asplin ...

When Susan Stratoti and Ellen Crawford first met at a quilting class at Brockton High School in 1990, the two West Bridgewater women had no idea that quilting would form the basis of a 22-year ...

Everyone in the room wore white linen gloves lest the oils from their hands change history. In the world of centuries old hand made quilts small things make a big difference. Purple fades to brown ...