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"It wasn’t her family pictures, it wasn't her jewellery, it was her quilting."

Many third- and fourth-generation artists returned to quilting as adults for a creative and therapeutic outlet, as well as a tether to their roots.

Porter’s story begins in small-town Iowa, where she was raised by a father who was a farmer turned loan officer and a homemaker mother who later found fame in the world of quilting.

It reminds me of my mother, grandmother, aunts and friends who gathered in each other’s homes so many times for “quilting bees”!

Pick up fabric at quilting shops or yarn at artisan fiber stores with rentable weaving looms.