How to Make an American Quilt [Movie]

When you spend your life with someone and they start to die and you feel this terrible, terrible... severing.

Self expression heals the wounded heart.

Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches.

The hardest part about being a woman is not being able to just be friends with a man.

You have to choose your combination carefully. The right choices will enhance your quilt. The wrong choices will dull the colors, hide their original beauty. There are no rules you can follow. You have to go by your instinct. And you have to be brave.

The hardest part about being a woman is having women friends.

The challenge with a quilt like this is each of these squares are made by different hands. So I have to bring all these different squares together and balance them in harmonious... design.

Sometimes love simply dies.