What an interesting thread to read. It really tells so much about the folks on the Board and how they feel about the quilting. My little tale is this, I found a beautiful quilt top in the closet in a paper bag after my mother died. Some
years later when I went to the area of her birth and was writing about her I talked to relatives who told me about the top. It was made by my grandmother (Mother's mother) and I was named for her! So I became a quilter but had that top hand quilted by a person in Mom's birth area. It has faded badly but is still a memory of someone I never knew and who's daughter didn't care enough to even mention it.
I have written about both women and the quilt and written a poem about the quilt and how women are connected by threads of memory. My granddaughter will have the quilt eventually. Never underestimate the power of a quilt!