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Community Quilt: Sew Close To Completion
Livingston quilters discover it's hip to be square.
Livingston Library’s community quilt features dozens of stories told in squares. The project, which began early this season, involved more than 200 participants ages 4 to 84, who were asked to use squares of fabric to express their love of reading or show their favorite author or book. After contributors were done drawing on the squares, teen volunteers and library staff members have spent much of the summer quilting the pieces. One of those volunteers is Helen O’Connor, an 11th grade student at Livingston High School. "It was really fun to work on the quilt," she said. "Jan Aji, who works at the library, taught me how to quilt by machine.” The idea for the quilt was conceived by quilt artist and illustrator, Adrienne Yorinks, and Teen…
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