A few years ago I was helping my mother go through her things before she moved into a retirement community. There were numerous quilt pieces, some blocks and a couple of quilt tops. The sewing wasn’t all that great and my mother and grandmother were both expert seamstresses. I said “Surely you or grandma never made these!”. Mom replied “Oh those must be left over from the quilt project.” She went on to explain that during the depression her mother headed up a project to “help poor women support their families” by making quilts. She said that she remembered “the sewing machines being brought in,” but she couldn’t remember whether this was into a church hall, school or other community building. Apparently the women could also work from home to be with their children. From the timing, I believe this was probably a SERA project. This was in Gridley, California. My grandmother’s name was Mamie Sala Bollman (Mrs. William). There may be more information in the back issues of the Gridley Herald, but most of their archives are not available online.