Lola from Nola

Cloaner Smith (b. 1913) of Lisbon, in Claiborne Parish

“I’ve been quilting since I was old enough to sew. My mother always done that. And I was a nosey little old girl, and I always stood in the way. Every scrap she’d drop, why, I’d pick it up and sew. I kept sewing until I got where I could make a good block, and she put it in her quilt as encouragement.”