Lisa Edmondson remembers looking at the embroidered signatures on feedsack-cloth blocks with her grandmother Louise Adams.
After seeing the Thursday News Tribune story, "Decades-old blocks of embroidered feedsack cloth sew up new circle of friends," Edmondson called Jo Warnke, who was looking for the story behind a friendship quilt whose blocks were discovered at the Salvation Army in Jefferson City.
The News Tribune story explained how Marian Martin and her mother, Anna, from Fortuna, discovered the 52 blocks in 2012 and quilted them together this spring to donate to the annual Festival of Sharing quilt auction Oct. 15. Warnke is the quilt auction coordinator.
"I saw the article and immediately knew where it came from," Edmondson said. "I called her to tell her the story."
Her grandmother, Louise Adams, and great-grandmother, Lillie Armstrong, made the quilt blocks while living in the Springfield area during the 1930s.
"Each block was made by family members, neighbors and such," Edmondson said.
The blocks were kept in a box, which she and her grandmother would look through. Her grandmother would tell her stories about many of the people whose names were embroidered on the blocks.
Edmondson said her grandmother could even remember whose dress was used for different pieces of the quilt blocks.
The box of quilt blocks passed from her grandmother's house to her mother's house and then to Edmondson and her daughter, Laura Boswell.
They selected several blocks with names of people they were personally connected with, like Edmondson's grandmother and great-grandmother, as well as her mother, who was just an infant when the blocks were completed in 1938.
Boswell's mother-in-law made those blocks into a wall hanging for the young Kansas City mother.
Edmondson said they decided to donate the remainder to the Salvation Army store.
"When I saw the article, I was thrilled someone had taken the time to put it all together," she said. "I'm so glad it worked out the way it did.
"After decades in boxes, they put it together, and it's going to raise money for a good cause."