We do NOT provide a manual for this project. There are many acceptable books about quilting that are available at fabric and other stores. The Extension Office can order a notebook from Nebraska. This ...
Years ago, Madison Ypma’s great-great grandmother Ida Brock Sterling sewed together blocks for a quilt. It was the midst of the Great Depression and Sterling hand sewed the blocks — squares of cloth — ...
The group assembles every Tuesday, toting fabric, needles, the occasional rhubarb pie and their “Iowans Ready for Hillary” pins. For two hours, they talk 2016 while stitching a very political quilt.