Aunt Maggie’s Wonderful Quilt Squares

My husband and I were fresh from the altar in those waning days of December, 1958. Before we flew home to Fairbanks, Alaska we made the rounds of his family and friends in Seattle, among them his sweet white-haired aunt, Maggie Bishop, who lived in Greenwood. We chatted a few moments and she introduced the subject of sewing. Did I sew? I said yes -- a little. She excused herself and returned with a paper bag full of white cotton quilt squares, each bearing a beautifully-pieced eight-pointed star made of patterned material from the 1920s and 30s.