Origin of quilts and Quilts of Valor foundation work

            This merged panorama shows part of the garden level of the church where members and friends design, cut, and assemble quilts each month, turning fabric scraps and battings into works of beauty and comfort for practical use, too. Searching online for the etymology of 'quilt' it seems to go back to a Latin word for mattress or bolster on top of the mattress. It's current spelling is recognizable in the 1300s of Britain (Anglo-Norman times) as a shell filled with wool or down feathers.

In the USA frontier areas that were thinly settled, getting together for a "quilting bee," a kind of hive of activity filled with "busy bees," was a way to socialize, network, catch-up with one another's projects and problems. Today's QOVF.org (quilts of valor foundation) is much more recent, but includes these long, long-ago roots in its purpose and character, though.

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Taken in: United States / Michigan / East Lansing / East Lansing (show map)

Taken on: November 11, 2023

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