Do you see any connection between that work and what you're doing now in quilting?

Yes, absolutely.

Yeah, restoring the Capitol Dome, we did that starting in 2013 up until 2016.

It was a three-year project.

But prior to that, there was a lot of history, a lot of study, a lot of documents, a lot of reading, just to understand every part and piece of the Capitol Dome and what it would take to bring it back to its former glory.

That bridging over into the quilts, also the...

Hours and hours of research that it took to study these men, how they live, the contributions that they made, and what we can all glean from the late 1800s, early 1900s, what we can glean from them and how we can apply that to our lives today.

What has that been like