When Danille Christensen learned about the planned trip, she worked to incorporate a quilt-tying workshop into her Folk Cultures in Appalachia class. Students helped tie two quilts that Satterwhite and Hester's students would then deliver to eastern Kentucky.
"Of course, you could go to any store and buy a blanket. But quilts require so much labor and care that 'it’s a little thing that has kind of outsized meaning,' said Christensen. As if the act of making them stitches a message into the fabric, alongside its other meanings: We know things are hard. You matter to us."