She was widowed during the depression with a family of eleven children under the age of fifteen. Her sewing needle fed her children. The quilt speaks of a leisure time which did not exist. How she managed to squeeze a quilt out of her life is miracle or miserableness made intangible. Or it could have simply been the work of habit.
Hands never idle.
The value of the quilt lies in its testimony to her determination of beauty measured by cloth. Quilt by Victoire Gagnon St.