CRAFTY WOMEN LOVE QUILTING: QUILTING QUITE RELAXING FOR ALMA BODENSTEIN

There are other items that Bodenstein has made by hand -- a pillowcase doll and a clown.

Over 70 years ago, when Alma Bodenstein of Gordonville was about 10, she began sewing a quilt for her mother. She quilted "off and on," but began taking it seriously 30 years ago.

"I had 1,000 chickens and cattle to keep me busy before that," Bodenstein said.

Like Mary Vandeven, Bodenstein loves to quilt.

"I can just relax, look over those fields and quilt away," Bodenstein said.

Bodenstein's mother quilted, too, but not to the extent that her daughter does.

"My dad used to always say 'There's no reason to cut the scraps and then sew them back together,'" Bodenstein recalls, smiling fondly.

Bodenstein works on her quilting every day that she's able and over the last 30 years has made over 60 quilts by hand. She's made most of them for her family, which includes many grandchildren and even a couple great-grandchildren.

She's made pillow case dolls and clowns for her grandchildren, too. She calls herself "crafty."

"When you live by yourself, you don't want to eat or do anything else -- you want to sew."