“The US military knew that letters from home were the single biggest morale booster, and a force with high morale fights better.” Sarah Sundin A postage stamp is the world’s smallest contract. When it is licked and affixed onto an envelope, there is an implied promise that nothing will deter…
“I am SO guilty of starting a new project before I finish the last one.” – Julie Cefalu, The Crafty Quilter One of the positive consequences of “sheltering at home” during the virus epidemic has been the completion of so many UFOs- Unfinished Objects. Every quilting site on social media…
“Without the aid of home front women warriors, maintaining the needs of the country and the military during the war would have been impossible.” – Sue Reich The Grannies Quilt The call for quilts to help in the war effort fell onto the ears of many on the home front…
“Women who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women. This was a peoples’ war, and everyone was in it.” – Olivia Culp Hobby, engraved on WWII Memorial in DC With pride, thousands of women signed up for military service after the bombing of Pearl…
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck Time for the winter quilts. The icy season descended upon the Midwestern States with a Halloween snow storm. Mercury lies in the lower end of the thermometer for days. Instead of…
“Quilters cut with hope, stitch with grace, quilt with dreams, bind with laughter, share with love”. -Anonymous Most quilters are fabric hoarders. They joke about this tendency to squirrel away fat quarters, swatches or whole bolts of choice designs. But, on a deeper level, fabric is a symbolic material that…
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