| Article: | Quality quilts Sometimes, the challenge for a quilter is finding the fabric. A daughter wants a quilt for her son, and so Grandma needs to find scraps of cloth that feature bugs, or ants, or interesting rocks. Grandma needs to stitch the contents of a child’s pockets into a work of art, which is exactly what Merrel Smith did when she brought her “Boys ‘Bug Jar’ Quilt” to A Sea of Quilts, the 14th-annual show from the Coos Sand ’N Sea Quilt Guild. |