Quilting: not just a labor of love, but a passion for local group

  • Quilters Karen Meston, Delores Hickman, Sandy Taylor and Marilyn Eighmy hold up the Minnekahta Quilters Guild 2024 raffle quilt ‘Dizzy Geese’ at their weekly hand quilters meeting. Photo by Charity Maness/Fall River County Herald Star
    Quilters Karen Meston, Delores Hickman, Sandy Taylor and Marilyn Eighmy hold up the Minnekahta Quilters Guild 2024 raffle quilt ‘Dizzy Geese’ at their weekly hand quilters meeting. Photo by Charity Maness/Fall River County Herald Star

    HOT SPRINGS – While one might think the days of women joining together around a floor quilt frame quilting a new quilt for a loved one, newlyweds, or a good friend are of a bygone era the fact is quilting is alive and well in Hot Springs.

    Every Wednesday from 1-4 pm a group of hand quilters get together at Fall River Fibers, much like days gone by, and sew each stitch lovingly in their quilt while …