After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers, Lisa Rice turned her home into a hub for collecting comfort quilts for the families of the 343 firefighters who had lost their lives. She traveled with her son, who was about eight years old at the time, from Washington, D.C. to New York, and together, they hand-delivered the quilts to multiple fire stations. “It was my first time doing a charity quilt,” said Rice. “I felt called to join the groups of international quilters who had joined together to support in the way we knew how.” This first effort, Adopt-A-Firehouse Quilts, a project based in New York and Washington, DC, set a precedent for what Rice would continue to do with her quilts over the next twenty-seven years of her quilting.
