quilting

Repurposing fabric — from tattered blankets, frayed rags, stained clothes — is a central ethos of the community’s quilting practice, which resists commodification.

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.

He also discovered his calling when he and the other volunteers took up quilting to raise funds for visiting family members of the terminally ill.