At night in their sanctuaries they are concocting a giant quilt filled with confessional messages of depression and resistance in the common hope for a safer existence.
1. Noel Jeffrey dressed the bed in the master bedroom with a mass of white organdy pillow shams and a gossamer silk quilt filled with silk floss from E. Braun ($425 to $750 each for the shams and $4,525 for a queen-size quilt).
It could truly be called the world's largest inhabitable sand castle, and it's hard not to be charmed by the sandstone mansions (called havelis), Jain temples, and colorful quilts that fill Jaisalmer's twisted streets.
At night, after working full days at her own business, which manufactures filling for quilts, she exchanged messages with several dozen patients and caregivers who came to call themselves "Team Iplex".
Sitting with her dog, a Pembroke Welsh corgi named Titian, on a quilt-covered bed filled with pillows, Ms. Dalton, with her long wavy gold hair, looked like a college student in a nice dorm room.
Robert G. Bea, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, said, "These shovel-ready projects do a good job filling potholes, patching up the quilt".
Ms. Amin said supporters of Mr. Hussein's overthrown government might be among the quilt of Communists, liberals, public employees, and other political and social groups who have been filling streets and public squares across Iraq over the past few weeks.
The Provence quilts tend to be made of two large pieces of whole cloth, either cotton or silk, that are sewn together with some kind of filling element, like batting or cording, sandwiched between them.
On the exposed decks we sat on teak lounge chairs, covered ourselves in heavy wool quilts and sipped teacups filled with hot bouillon.
Mrs. Clinton and Chelsea Clinton arrived some time later, got a lengthy tour from Ms. Streisand of her rooms filled with quilts and American folk art, then sat down to an outdoor buffet.
Each roll of batting costs about $90 and will fill 25 quilts.
