This is a quote from a book on quilting, that I just recieved as an early birthday present. Since I am heading south on Tuesday, I think it is fitting.
"I've had a heap o' comfort all my life makin' quilts, and now in my old age I wouldn't take a fortune for 'em... You see, some folks has albums to put folks' pictures in to remember 'em by, and some folks has a book and writes down things that happen every day so they won't forgit 'em, but, honey, these quilts is my albums and my di'ries, and whenever the weather's bad and I can't git out to see folks, I jest spread out my quilts and look at 'em and study over 'em, and it's jest like goin' back fifty or sixty years and livin' life over agin."
Eliza Calvert Hall