Chapter 7: Deep Roots
The next few years flew by for Jerusha. She had found her calling as a quilter, and within a year she was sewing whole sections of her grandmother’s quilts on her own. Her stitch was fine, almost invisible, and while most quilters would put seventy thousand stitches in a quilt, Jerusha sewed more than ninety thousand stitches into her first complete quilt.
“Ja, your stitch is so small and even,” her grandmother said as she looked over Jerusha’s first quilt. “It is as though you’ve been quilting all your life.”
Grandmother Hannah also helped Jerusha with her schooling, which allowed Jerusha to spend more time at home working on the quilts. Her grandmother was careful to see that she did her chores and helped around the house as all the Hershberger children did, but
