Saturday morning, volunteers gathered in Bryan to sew quilt tops. Brazos Bluebonnet Quilt Guild participated in Quilts of Valor Sew Day at American Legion Post 159 and set up 17 sewing kits for ...

Rosie Lee Tompkins prayed for loved ones as she pieced together colorful bits of fabrics into elaborate patchworks. For Tompkins, sewing the quilt tops was part of her ongoing conversation with God.

Many years later, when Wright gave a talk about the Civil War to middle school students, she used the quilt as a “show-and-tell” artifact. When she finished speaking, the students wanted to ...

The two are working on a quilt that will be donated to the new Montevideo Veterans Home, opening this fall. Various county 4-H clubs are assisting quilters from across Swift County.

Patricia Buzzard, member of the Quilts of Valor Foundation, awarded a Quilt of Honor to 13 veterans representing the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines: Ed Van Wert, Michael Luckenbill, Rodney Zerr ...

This is the home’s 35th quilt fundraiser. This event can bring in as much as $70,000 that goes back into supporting the 33 full-time residents and caregivers here.

Quilt sewing sisters from top left include Pat Allison, 79, Mary Byington, 92, Betty Wilde, 90, Elaine Lee, 86, Evie Sabo, 91 and Donna Wilde, 83.

“I have well over a hundred, maybe hundreds of quilt tops in the back room of the shop. “It’s like an addiction. I want to see what else I can do.