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Nifty Fifty 1 Charity Quilt published in "Quilts and Health"

April 19, 2026

Nifty Fifty 1 Charity Quilt published in "Quilts and Health"

50 State Block Exchange. Blocks created by Nifty Fifty Quilters members; quilted by Joyce Neyers, began July 1995, finished April 1998. Collection of Michigan State University Museum. Photo by Pearl Yee Yong. Members of the Nifty Fifty Quilters of American participate in quilt block swaps with others in the fifty states and then create charity quilts for Breast Cancer Awareness campaigns. Cancer survivors and individuals who lost loved ones to the disease signed the back of the quilt when the Nifty Fifty Quilters exhibited the quilt at quilt shows in many different locations. (Quilt Index, http://quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=1E-3D-261F: see also Nifty Fifty Quilters of America, http://www.niftyfiftyquilters.com/nfchairty.html) Updated web page: https://niftyfiftyquilting.com/charity