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 ...

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 ...

Lisa Edmondson remembers looking at the embroidered signatures on feedsack-cloth blocks with her grandmother Louise Adams. After seeing the Thursday News Tribune story, "Decades-old blocks of ...

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 ...

Photo by Janelle Patterson Barbara Robinson, 68, of Devola, shares the friendship star quilt she was given when she joined the Friendly Circle Quilt Club in 1993. MARIETTA — More than 100 years and ...

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 ...

Keeping the electricity bill low is not easy to do during winter's cold months but one woman has found a unique way to do it. Mount Isa quilt collector and maker Bev Wilmot said her bill is lower this ...

Not all history books are made of paper and found in a library. This is the story about a different kind of history book that stitches together the tale not only of a church and its congregation, but ...