A friendship quilt is like a well-autographed yearbook that keeps you warm. To add something personal, a quiltmaker sends fabric swatches to friends to sign and then sews the patches into the quilt’s ...

Lisa Edmondson remembers looking at the embroidered signatures on feedsack-cloth blocks with her grandmother Louise Adams. After seeing the Thursday News Tribune story, "Decades-old blocks of ...

In the 1840s, the idea of friendship quilts, also known as signature or autograph quilts, started. These types of quilts came in and out of fashion but, in general, were given as gifts to friends who ...

CANNON BEACH - The Cannon Beach History Center features a show of friendship quilts as part of its rotating quilt show. The show will run through April 20, and hangs in the History Center classroom.

Photo by Janelle Patterson Barbara Robinson, 68, of Devola, shares the friendship star quilt she was given when she joined the Friendly Circle Quilt Club in 1993. MARIETTA — More than 100 years and ...