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Crafts

seaglass

(8,181 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2019, 11:05 AM Oct 2019

A thousand needle workers volunteer to finish dead woman's quilt [View all]

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...

Link to tweet

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

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A thousand needle workers volunteer to finish dead woman's quilt [View all] 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