VICTORIA, Texas – In a small quilt shop in south Texas, comfort arrives by mail — one carefully stitched square at a time.

The squares, called “poppy blocks” by quilters, are destined to become part of an extraordinary relief effort for victims of the devastating Fourth of July flood that swept through the Texas Hill Country.

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From places as far away as Australia and Ecuador, they make their way to Connie Kortz’s My Fabric Friends quilt shop, where they’re being transformed into what could become one of Texas’s largest quilt drives ever.

“We call our thing ‘Hugs from Texas,’” Kortz said. “This is going to give them some comfort... it’s everybody’s arms from the whole country, the whole worl

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