The Art of Quilting Circles: Stitching Community Together0

• Craft, LIFESTYLE
• September 23, 2025

When Dorothy Lane was a newly married woman in the late 1950s, she joined a quilting circle at her church in rural Kentucky. Every Thursday afternoon, she and a dozen other women would gather in the basement hall, spreading out a half-finished quilt across wooden frames while coffee percolated in the corner. “We didn’t just