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 ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early 1940s Welthea B. Thoday ...

The Johnson County Museum's Common Threads exhibition is a way into the area's history, but also connects women across time and space. Quilting is a pastime of paradoxes. It’s at once considered an ...

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 ...