Several years ago, a friend of mine hosted our monthly meeting of the north Routt Bookies, our neighborhood book club. After the meeting was over, she asked me to look at an old quilt top that she had found in her attic. It was a dark winter night, without much light to see the quilt top with, so I took it home and looked it over the following morning. It was not in good shape - it was wrinkled and rumpled and worn and torn and stained. The quilt top did not lay flat, of cour