COZAD — Julianne Donofrio considers her film about the American Quilt Trail more than just a collection of hard facts. “I’ve spent the better part of seven years working on this documentary ...

For Blangsted, sewing in silence satisfies her and piecing together a quilt pattern is metaphoric as well as cathartic. "It's very calming for me to work at the end of the day," she said.

Piecing Together: Tennessee State ... one of which dates back as far as the late 1700s. ... Beattie finished the quilt that’s on exhibit in 1979, when she was 100 years old.

And after she has the picture in place, she adds batting and a backing, then binds it off, just like any other quilt, she says. "It's a fun hobby," Kester says.

Movies often show them as a group of rural women — mostly elderly — sitting around a quilt stretched on a frame, on a back porch or in a church Piecing it all together: Quilters join forces ...

What do you think of when you see a quilt? A practical object? A work of art? A treasured family heirloom? Quilts, more so than many objects, have managed to bring all of these identities together ...

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