I don't know if we'll make any more quilts for Romania after we send these, but we'll still be making things for Ridgecrest Healthcare Center and to fill other needs.

She wants to have more quilts on display than I have. I have 17 here now.

I've always done a lot of different things - quilts and making dolls and stained glass - but this has been the most rewarding.

She made most of her quilts by hand. This is the last quilt she made, but it's not done yet. It's a work in progress.

I love what used to be called women's work. When women make quilts or something like that, it was something they could pick up or put down, and go back to after they start dinner or weed the garden or whatever... feed the baby. I like that. I liked knowing where I was going to be for a while.

Telling a story about something you know nothing about is like starting a new job without the training.