Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:05 PM

seaglass (8,131 posts)

A thousand needle workers volunteer to finish dead woman's quilt

I saw the original tweets on Twitter yesterday. This woman buys projects at estate sales and finishes them, mostly embroidery but she found the beginnings of a quilt and this is what happened...

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50169038

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7 replies	Author	Time	Post
A thousand needle workers volunteer to finish dead woman's quilt (Original post)	seaglass	Oct 2019	OP
K&R and thanks. Gorgeous quilt, lovely story! nt	tblue37	Oct 2019	#1
Cool story! Thanks for sharing.	flibbitygiblets	Oct 2019	#2
Humans are amazing	ornotna	Oct 2019	#3
What a lovely story.	femmocrat	Oct 2019	#4
what a Wonderful Story, So many people coming together to finish the quilt.	dem in texas	Oct 2019	#5
Tears in my eyes.	Dem2theMax	Oct 2019	#6
What a story! It was on display for two weeks at the National Quilt Museum	yellowdogintexas	Nov 2021	#7

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:14 PM

tblue37 (52,911 posts)

1. K&R and thanks. Gorgeous quilt, lovely story! nt

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:14 PM

flibbitygiblets (7,220 posts)

2. Cool story! Thanks for sharing.

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:15 PM

ornotna (9,722 posts)

3. Humans are amazing

Thanks for the great story.

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Sat Oct 26, 2019, 09:29 AM

femmocrat (28,371 posts)

4. What a lovely story.

I have so many unfinished craft kits and one quilt. So kind of people to take an interest in this woman’s life work.

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Sun Oct 27, 2019, 01:38 AM

dem in texas (2,611 posts)

5. what a Wonderful Story, So many people coming together to finish the quilt.

Once the embroidery work is done and the blocks are sewn together, there should be a giant quilting bee to quilt the top. Wish I could take part in the fun.

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Wed Oct 30, 2019, 04:31 PM

Dem2theMax (9,419 posts)

6. Tears in my eyes.

What a lovely story. I need to read these kinds of things to remember that there is still good in the world. Thank you so much for posting it.

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Sun Nov 14, 2021, 03:52 PM

yellowdogintexas (19,111 posts)

7. What a story! It was on display for two weeks at the National Quilt Museum

It's in Paducah, Kentucky.

link: https://quiltmuseum.org/the-quilters-spot/ritas-quilt-debut-event/

One of these days when I am in KY with my sisters, we are going to go there!

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