“If there was no wood for a coffin when pioneers were traveling west, the deceased might have been wrapped in a quilt replacing the coffin.”- Mary Bywater Cross, Treasures in the Trunk: Quilts of the Oregon Trail Wrapping the feed sack quilt around me, I wept silently on the lumpy…
“When an individual’s mind takes off in uncontrollable flights of anxiety or depression or grief, making a quilt redirects and soothes the mind in a safe, predictable way. Quilting is meditation for people who can’t sit still to meditate.” 1 -Dr. Madeline Fernbach, Clinical Psychologist This type of therapy can…
“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” -Mary McLeod Bethune, educator It started with my first born, Jessalyn, wrapped papoose-style in her cotton candy pink quilt, and tucked in my elbow. With my other hand, I held a magazine with lots of pictures and slowly…
“Quilts are active agents in history and vivid storytellers.” (Click the text above to learn about Macia Fuller and her Underground Railroad quilts.) Women with needles. Creating maps and codes. Freeing countless precious souls from slavery. One group of stitchers was the Quakers who ran the safe houses, or stations…
The Other Mother Late into the night, Marjorie Nagel writes in a journal listing feeding and sleeping schedules, as well as cuddle times. She has done this for each of the eighty-two babies that Marjorie has fostered. A diary of the daily love and care they received intermingles with the…
On April 12, Street Children Day, my mind grappled with the statistic. An unbelievable 100 million youngsters in the world, living in the shadows, now stand in the light for all to see. Not just the rising toll of Syrian orphans who have lost their parents in war, but those…
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