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IT’S OKAY TO FEEL
When Danni Surre was a child, her nanny possessed a power that must have seemed all but magical to the little girl. The older woman could take two pieces of fabric, add some soft batting in between, and — using only the
THE HEN PEN KEEPS A WARM CRAFT COVERED
simplest of tools: a needle, some scissors, some thread — create works of art that Surre would wrap her little body up in, feeling warm and safe and loved. She did not
By William Harwood
know it then, but Surre was being gently inducted into the ancient tradition of quilting. Stretching back to at least the Egyptians, “quilt” — both the noun and the verb — have been part of the English language for a thousand years, a solid five centuries before Modern English even existed. Oh, forsooth.
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