FARWELL, Texas (KFDA) - Ruben on the Road heads to Farwell where he visits a local artist keeping memories alive through quilts.

Rhonda Stevens, a quilt artist at Story Quilts, started making quilts as a default.

“I originally started out as a garment sewist and making garments all the time. And I made garments for me, my kids,” said Stevens.

She says in the world of fabric, that industry has gone overseas and so there was no more garment fabric you could buy.

“And I still, I missed the sewing,” said Stevens. “So if you wanted to sew, you kind of had to go into quilts because that’s where everything was going at the time.”

Stevens got into the applique. She started making pictures, sewing them down and having the quilt tell the story that way.

In the last 10 years or so, Stevens had

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