MANASSAS, Va. —
Deby Wine has never received a request quite like this one. Wine, a member of the Stone House Quilters Guild in Manassas, Virginia, got a message through the guild’s Facebook account from a woman named Jennifer Rodd requesting the group complete her late grandmother’s unfinished quilt.
“[Jennifer] just said she had some fabrics to donate,” Wine said.
But the guild took the simple message seriously and immediately got to work.
“I think the story behind [the quilt] is what makes it so special,” Susan Graves, one of the quilters who worked on the piece, said.
Several quilters worked for months to finish the quilt. Without a pattern to work from, many had no idea how the finished product would turn out.
“Quilters are like that - they just do what they can do,” fellow quilter Cyndi Cook said.
The group finally presented the finished product to Rodd in August.
"It could have been a box of parts that ended up in the trash, but it ended up a beautiful piece of artwork," Wine said.
Rodd, who is blind, could not see the quilt. But she could feel it, along with the generosity from those who painstakingly made it all happen.
“There are still good people in the world,” Rodd said after being presented with the quilt for the first time. “This is absolutely wonderful. This is so special to me.”
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