Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1881 — A Quilt of 55,552 Pieces. [ARTICLE]

A Quilt of 55,552 Pieces.

From tb« Phlliutolpbi* Pram. A more comfortable, old-fashioned, quiet-locking home for old ladles than the Union home,* at Forty-eighth and Lancaster avenue r dould scarcely be found. Yesterday was donation day at the h6me, and the presents which poured in attested the friendship of tttb.se who have ite. Welfare at heart. Barrels of flour, eases Of canned tomatoeA hams, tongues, all kinds of groceries, fruits, etc., were piled up in the •oulkitchefi until it looked like a wholesale grocery store, and gave promise Df'rerievihg the purchasing commitfaF work for a time.' 1 A large of the friend! of the instituWiMjt called during flhe day, and the managers gave a tea In the afternoon. Among the interesting objects made by the inmates and exhibited was a quilt of 55,552 pieces, sewed together by a lady who bas been blind from infancy—Mfas Kate Braith. She worked thrqfi years on the quilt, used 100 spoils of thread, and threaded every needle herself. She thinks she could make another such quilt in two years.