Quilts for Families of 9/11 Victims

April 22, 2004

Members of "United We Quilt," a non-profit organization of quilters from across America and around the world, create memorial quilts, each in honor of the life of a particular person who was lost on September 11, 2001.

These quilts are made only at the request of family members, friends, or other relations who lost loved ones. They are not intended for any public display; they are for the personal use of the husbands, wives, parents, siblings, children and friends left behind.

Depending on a family's wishes, the quilt can include clothing from the victim, copies of photographs, or other mementos.

The quilts are created for and given to the families at no charge; any costs incurred are the responsibility of the volunteer quilting group or individual quilter.

As of January 2004, more than 500 family members and friends had been matched with volunteer quilters from all over the US, Canada and Australia.