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Ella Kazmaier, left, and Joan Moulton, both from Perrysburg, create a quilt from a patchwork blanket. They estimate that the blanket was put together from scraps of material in the 1940s.

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Sue and Ron Moenter create a quilt from a patchwork blanket.

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Becky Robertson, of Perrysburg, working on converting a patchwork blanket into a quilt.

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Joan Moulton, of Perrysburg, left, and Milly Dierker, of Pemberville, working on converting a patchwork blanket into a quilt.

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Joan Moulton, of Perrysburg, creates a quilt.

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Scraps of material are used in the patchwork blanket the quilters are converting into a quilt. Under the surgical scissors in the middle -- three of the quilters were nurses -- tiny pieces of cloth complete the vertical-striped patches.

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Ron Moenter threads a needle under a light.

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Sue Moenter is one of several people creating a quilt from a patchwork blanket.

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