strongspan style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Celebrating a new direction and the /span/strongbr/strongspan style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"hope of healing for our nation./span/strongbr/ br/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Pieced by/spanbr/strongspan style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Kathy Cracroft Wilhelmsen/span/strongbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"(Draper, Utah ndash; 2020 through 2021)/spanbr/ br/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"In the spring of 2020, my cousin Carolyn White Zaugg /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"showed me a quilt top she first began 20 years earlier /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"and was now committed to finishing. It was a ldquo;mysteryrdquo; /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"quilt that created a radiating star pattern, all from /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"half-square triangles. We spent a memorable day together /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"brainstorming ideas for how to complete the quilt and /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"nurturing the bond we have had as cousins from infancy, /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"being just nine days apart./spanbr/ br/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Afterward, my mind kept going back to the images of /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Carolynrsquo;s quilt (which shersquo;d done in shades of green). /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Not long after, I drafted up the pattern from photos and /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"was picking through my stash for navy and cream leftovers. /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Carolyn finished her quilt, expanded to a generous king-sized /spanbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"version, and I got my 75x75 sized one done not long afterward. /spanbr/ br/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Quilted by/spanbr/strongspan style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Quilts on the Corner/span/strongbr/span style="font-family:bookman old style,serif;"Sandy, Utah /span