"If all that matters was keeping warm, we would buy our coverlets, too. The women of my family quilt - they quilted - as a matter of choice, not necessity. We each had our own style, our own favorite colors and patterns, our own unique way of arranging the pieces - even if two of us chose the same pattern and traced the same templates , the quilts we made would be as unique to us as our faces and voices. My mother's quilts say 'home' to me in a way no blanket from a store ever could."
(from: "The New Year's Quilt", by Jennifer Chiaverini)
